Eleven Greenstones (she/they) is a social scientist, facilitator, mediator and generative conflict specialist. She seeks deep justice and a fertile ecology by cultivating rich soil and robust, adaptive communities.
For 30+ years, they’ve informed or performed behind a radio desk, on stage and screen, in front of a classroom and during COVID, in a zoom room. They’ve designed and delivered training in Aotearoa, Australia, Timor Leste, Korea and America, educating in high schools, AOD rehab, police stations, hospitals, international language schools and mentoring in arts workshops and community gardens.
Eleven is a life-long scholar and keeps her tools sharp with ongoing learning. She is currently being mentored by Lina Patel of Revma Consulting, has trained with the Groupwork Centre (Melb), and is alumni of Leah Manaema Avene’s Fieldwork. Eleven’s studied with Generative Somatics, fugitive philosopher Bayo Akomalafe and the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (US). She’s been mentored by Undoing White Supremacy Austin (Texas) to facilitate anti-racism ‘unlearning circles’, by Radical Faerie elders to design liberating spaces for LGBTQIA+ communities and by botanists and ecologists to work for a living planet.
Eleven’s grateful to be rooted in global communities which support and shape her. She tips her hat to those who carved the paths she walks and works to keep the trails warm for those who will come. She’s of Irish/Italian-American and Scots/English descent, privileged to be raised in comparative safety enveloped by the natural abundance of Aotearoa/New Zealand.