“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom” — E.O. Wilson
More than just research and analysis, we work with clients to gather novel information, contextualise it, and then facilitate development of the shared, multiperspectival understanding that informs wise action.
The Sensemaking Studio is an international collective of independent thinkers and consultants, rooted in the practice of integrative systems transformation. We specialise in synthesising structural conditions with psycho-social factors, honouring the interdependence of our inner and outer worlds.
Our approach marries intellectual rigour with soulfulness and creativity. From data analytics, sector ecosystem mapping and policy development to organisational learning journeys, relational insight practices, and embodied inquiry, our multidisciplinary team applies a broad range of tools to render the world more intelligible at a time of escalating complexity.
Data analysis and visualisation ⧫ Ecosystem mapping ⧫ Literature reviews ⧫ Strategy and communication ⧫ Narrative synthesis ⧫ AI-supported framing and sentiment analysis ⧫ Consultation processes ⧫ Interviews and qualitative research ⧫ Market insights and competitor reviews ⧫ Research reports ⧫ Academic partnerships ⧫ Organisational learning journeys ⧫ Relational insight practices ⧫ Collective contemplation approaches ⧫ Imagination, creativity and innovation facilitation ⧫ Embodied inquiry ⧫ Presentations and speaker engagements
We are a collective of analysts and artists, engineers and storytellers, contemplatives and cultural entrepreneurs.
A French-Taiwanese artist, entrepreneur and educator. Her creative work synthesises Eastern and Western philosophies and aesthetics, using language and experience design to explore themes such as myth, narrative framing, activism, impermanence, death, spirituality and religion. Sylvie’s performance art takes the form of contemporary ritual, inviting audiences to take an active and interactive role. She uses language techniques such as Zen Koans as a bridge for the mind into direct experience, pushing beyond the bounds of the intellect into a space of greater wholeness and connection.
An author, editor, creative director and communications strategist working primarily in public climate narrative and the inner dimension of cultural change. She brings an academic background in philosophy and political communication to a decade of work with NGOs, policy initiatives, creative agencies and start-ups. Her approach combines sense-making, copywriting, and communication consultancy, helping to birth ideas and refine their shape - with clients including the Club of Rome, Climate Majority Project and Climate X.
A policy expert, researcher and writer known for his leadership within the emerging field of inner-led systems transformation. He has deepened the dialectic between ancient wisdom, modern science and public policy through a string of influential reports and collaborations with intergovernmental organisations, government agencies and politicians around the world. He currently leads on public narrative and policy development for the Inner Development Goals, and from 2015 to 2023 played an instrumental role in the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness, serving as Director of the associated policy institute, The Mindfulness Initiative.
A clinical psychologist, Dharma teacher, and transdisciplinary researcher focused on personal and political empowerment. He has worked with humanitarian organizations like UNOCHA and Doctors Without Borders in conflict-affected regions. Ordained as a Buddhist monk in 2004, he studied Mindfulness-Based Interventions (Bangor University) and leads meditation retreats across Europe. He founded NeuroSystemics, an NGO providing somatically-centered multi-level capacity building worldwide, and is a Research Scholar at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Associate at Life Itself Research and an Education Ambassador at the Harvard Catalyst, working on bridging the gap between evidence-based interventions and field implementation. Boaz holds degrees in Business Administration, Buddhist Studies, and Clinical Psychology.
A complexity facilitator, exploring multi-disciplinary practices for sensemaking, narratives and a certified developmental psychology coach. Co-founder of Human-Equity Ltd in 2009, he specialised in qualitative metrics applied to complex organisational development, investment portfolio and change initiatives (culture and values) - in parallel with complexity facilitation processes in collaboration with Dave Snowden and the Cynefin Framework methods. Since 2020 John has been developing an artistic practice to explore the connections between the arts and complexity principles. John’s career includes 15 years in strategy consulting and business development for clients like British Telecom and Airbus, four years with an NGO (Practical Action) as Project Manager on artisan technology transfer projects in Nepal and Ghana. He holds a BEng in Engineering from Brunel University, London, and an MBA Hons from EDHEC (Theseus) in Nice, France.
An entrepreneur, activist and author as well as a long-term Zen practitioner. He is passionate about finding wiser, weller ways to live together. He wants all children (and future generations) to live in a world of love, abundance and wisdom. Rufus founded several successful for-profit and nonprofit initiatives, including Life Itself, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Datopian. His 2018 book Open Revolution is about making a radically freer and fairer information age and has been translated into multiple languages. Previously he has been the Mead Fellow in Economics at the University of Cambridge as well as a Shuttleworth and Ashoka Fellow. A recognized global expert on the information society, he has worked with G7 governments, IGOs like the UN, Fortune 500 companies as well as many civil society organisations. He holds a PhD in Economics and a double first in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
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