Tina Puryear

About Me

I am a human rights defender and change-maker

I started in community development and youth work almost 30 years ago, moving on to be a researcher, writer, trainer, strategy developer, impact assessor, programme planner, project manager, partnership builder and network weaver.

My work focuses on: self and collective care in a time of collective trauma; refugee and migration issues; trauma informed (and vicarious trauma informed) approaches; and participatory processes and deliberative decision making for social and climate justice.

I am a facilitator

• Facilitating processes that promote more inclusive co-creation and shared ownership of human rights/social justice programmes and projects that are strategic and impactful
• Facilitating platforms for changemakers and human rights defenders to share learning, build connections, and grow solidarity
• Facilitating structured conversations to assess the ways our changemaking work has influenced change; and reflect on how much we walked the walk in our efforts
• Facilitating participatory research that includes voices of those impacted by injustice
• Facilitating safe and inclusive spaces for groups to explore the impact of the collective trauma and ways to embed collective care into work structures and practices.

I strive to align all I do with my ethics and values. To that end, I draw on a range of group facilitation techniques and methodologies to ensure all I do is inclusive, safe, participatory and collaborative. You can read my code of practice here [insert hyperlink to ethics & values].

I am a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and I am skilled in their core competencies (which you can find here).