Alpacka Collective

An experienced facilitator, strategist and co-owner focussed on enabling teams to collaborate and share power

  • Consent based decision making

    Latest workshop: Tuesday 14th October 11 – 1pm Pay what you can model An engaging and active workshop in practising consent based decision making. Book your tickets and read more detail over on the eventbrite page. Email me any questions you have and I will get back to you as soon as I can: hello@abihandley.com

  • A 3 day retreat in a plantation in Ghana

    A 3 day retreat in a plantation in Ghana

    These opportunities don’t come along all that often so I grabbed this one with both hands. Together with James Bianco from 16 Degrees, we designed and delivered 2 days of facilitation over 3 in the Ashanti region in Ghana. Working with a leadership team that represented all the parts of the complex business of planting…

  • Supporting good governance when working in the open

    Sometimes a project gets funding to experiment and explore an area that isn’t full formed, and this is fantastic – funders should have the confidence and bravery to fund something that isn’t yet fully scoped out far more often, especially if we genuinely want to figure out how to do things differently. You can’t predict…

  • Creating grant assets for Wimbledon

    Creating grant assets for Wimbledon

    Well this was an easy one to think of an image to use – TENNIS! Yes, I used the WordPress AI generator to create to image, and, its a classic. I’m currently working with Ulrika Hogberg to support the internal team in creating open, accessible and inclusive grant assets for an upcoming grant programme. Building…

  • Supporting PG Collective with internal ways of working

    I’ve been an associate with Practical Governance for a year or more now, initially working on strategic and organisational development support for Knowle West Media Centre. Through until the end of 2024 and perhaps into early 2025 (I think that is the first time I’ve written that year down!) I will be working with the…

  • Away days for Herts Mind Network

    Along with James from 16 Degrees Coaching we have so far co-delivered two Away Days for the Herts Mind Network board of trustees and leadership team. Jess (the Chair) and Jo (the Chief Exec) gave us great freedom in how we delivered the first day, with the main aim to build connection and understanding between…

  • Supporting change of CEO at Knowle West Media Centre

    Working as an Associate with PG Collective and in collaboration with Julia Beart & Kate Smith, we have recently delivered the first phase of work to support the outgoing Founder and CEO Carolyn who retired at the end of March, and co-creating with the team an achievable plan for the incoming leadership team to transition…

  • Strategic input for the Conduit Foundation

    Strategic input for the Conduit Foundation

    Working with PGCollective (specifically Bob Thust) to run a pilot funding programme for the Conduit Club, a members club in central London and Oslo with positive social change at its core. Over the summer I’ve been working to form a team and deliver a pilot 12 month programme in partnership with the BRLCF. It is…

  • Introducing Sociocracy to Birmingham Museums Trust

    Working with lots of Outlandish’s Building OUT team, we have been supporting the SMT and a newly formed general circle in trying out consent based decision making and Circles as a more equitable and empowering way for decisions and change to be made within the organisation

  • Catalyst Circles Coaching

    Catalyst Circles Coaching

    Kayleigh and I (and previously Aaron Hirtenstein too) have been supporting the Catalyst network with embedding Sociocratic processes and principles into the way their three Initiative Leads circles are operating since October 2022 and through until September. Catalyst are piloting whether Sociocratic circles and collaborative decision making for funding budgets is a viable way to…

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