hearth consultancy
home for education, activism, research, transformative justice & healing
home for education, activism, research, transformative justice & healing
We offer interactive, creative workshops from a feminist, queer, decolonial and abolitionist perspective, designed to facilitate curiosity, insight, connection and reflection.
Bringing years of experience in critical criminology, social policy, research methods and EDI work, we:
We are activists, committed to social justice and change across a range of interconnected issues. We can help you mobilise for justice and build a new world, through:
We are experienced researchers and writers, working closely with marginalised groups and in participatory ways. We can help you capture and evaluate data and insights about your organisation and the communities you work with. Our offerings include:
Our work is shaped by principles of transformative and restorative justice. We believe in the power of non-violent communication, deep listening, abolitionist models of personal and community accountability, and hopeful, collective ways of creating safety and reducing harm.
Working with you, this might include:
Working in a trauma-informed way, we challenge structural violence and inequality and promote healing. We can support organisations and communities to expand these capacities, facilitating conversations and creating spaces that bring insights and tools from restorative and transformative justice and nonviolent communication to:
My conversations with Rachel and Trude began in 2020. We immediately found common ground in education and social justice and have since developed a vital critical dialogue that inspires and situates my thinking in a broader context.
Both are exceptional listeners and thinkers and the work that we have consequently done with Rachel and Trude in our organisation has been warmly received by staff and made significant impact in the way that we think about evaluation. Clearly their experience in the academic field is potent, but the crossover between, and breath of knowledge and practise within community environments is unique and invaluable. I can’t recommend working with this brilliant team enough.
Ollie Briggs, Founder/CEO Arts Education Exchange
Barnet Council would like to extend our sincere appreciation to Hearth Consultancy for their work in producing the evaluation report on our Culturally Integrated Family Approach (CIFA) programme. It has been a pleasure working with Hearth Consultancy. From the outset, their thoughtful and collaborative approach fostered a strong sense of community. Their involvement in co-production meetings and engagement in our performance and operational meetings with 10 borough partners reflected a commitment to delivering an independent, evidence-led analysis.
The team demonstrated care and sensitivity throughout the research process particularly in how they conducted interviews and captured the lived experiences of individuals. They handled complex themes with sensitivity, openness, and integrity, ensuring that every story was treated with the dignity it deserved. We were impressed by their dedication, professionalism, and engagement. Their evaluation report has brought invaluable insight and added significant recommendations and learning to our CIFA programme.
Radlamah Canakiah, Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy Manager, Barnet Council
Trude Sundberg
Trude is a passionate researcher and facilitator focused on transforming the injustices and inequalities that are shaping our societies today through working as part of affected communities. They are a trans nonbinary researcher who has worked internationally doing research on emotional and physical effects of discrimination, stereotyping, values, attitudes and inequalities. Trude is an academic at the University of Kent, where they also earned their PhD. See profile.
Rachel Seoighe
Rachel is a researcher, activist, writer and educator whose work focuses on state violence and resistance, imprisonment and abolition feminism, and memory, hope and social justice. Her work is collaborative, participatory and community-focused. She is committed to analysing, resourcing and contributing to justice struggles and community memory work. Rachel is an academic at the University of Kent, see profile. She earned her PhD in Law and Criminology from King’s College, London.
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