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Articles, interviews, manifestos and explorations from the Sync Leadership world.


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Introducing the Mycelial Model of Self-Advocacy – Louie Fermor

While waiting for galleries, governments, societies, companies etc. to catch up, let’s do what we do best and thrive ‘off…

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The Speed of Trust: Alex Bulmer in conversation with Sarah Pickthall

Listen to the Podcast That time-taking shows respect for the others in the room. It says that the leadership model…

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Belinda Locke stands next to Kristina McMullin. Belinda wears a seajade dress, she smiles and her dark black curly shoulder length hair frames her face. Kristina has her hair hair pulled back. They both wear lipstick.

Reflections from the Twilight Zone

Belinda Locke and Kristina McMullin Meeting in person together in Summer 2023 when Sync was in Toronto, Sync Leaders, Belinda…

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A picture of Alia Alzougbi and Sarah Pickthall wearing black tops sitting and smiling in bean bags in Sync Arabi training in Amman, January 2023

Sync Arabi – at the raw intersection of disability and mobility justice in the arts  

Alia Alzougbi is a cultural strategist, artist, facilitator and Sync Associate working at the intersection of art and social and…

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Jodee Mundy: Lost but Found

In the second SYNC Leadership online program 22 session, the cohort were asked to find a metaphor for their leadership.…

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Kirsty Collins: Living with Disability is about Adaption and Innovation

Designing creative space for people with sensory disabilities* and my internalised ableism. I am one of approximately five hundred people…

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Fi Peel: If there’s one thing that I’ve noticed…

The wasted and the loser things, the broken and abused things, all these small things. The treasured and sacred things,…

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Tyson Hopprich: The Spark. The Flame. The Fire. 

The Spark. My disability gave me the ability to find my purpose in life.  Since a young boy I have…

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Harmonie Downes: Radical acceptance is self-love and the pathway to social change

I quickly realised that I have been a co-pilot to my own discrimination and this revelation is quite shocking and…

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The unacknowledged rollercoaster of being disabled-led: Jo Verrent

It’s not enough for disabled people to make art, the context they make it in matters too.  I’m the director…

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