Gillian Emslie

Gill is an international facilitator, trainer, executive coach, and consultant working in settings ranging from the NGO, social and environmental justice sectors, to business and local government.

  • As an educator, Gill has taught at under-graduate and post-graduate levels in Europe, SE Asia and Latin America. She specialises in running in-depth training programmes in leadership, diversity and conflict facilitation, and community building.  She also collaborates with international and local NGO networks, facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogues across various sectors.

    Her specialist interest lies in the human experience as it relates to social change processes, diversity and inclusion.  This extends to working with the dynamics of rank and power and the connection with individual body experiences. Her desire is to support and draw out the inherent potential within each individual, relationship, organisation and community. 

    Gill trained at the Process Work Institute, Oregon, USA and in RSPOPUK, London, and completed a Ph.D. in Natural Design at Dundee University, Scotland. She is also qualified UKCP psychotherapist, supervisor and training supervisor.

    Gill lives in Scotland and Spain. In Findhorn, Scotland, she is a founding member of a small low-carbon ecological co-housing project. She is a senior faculty member of the Findhorn Foundation Eco-Village where she has designed and delivered sustainable development, group facilitation  and leadership training programmes for international delegates and guests. The Findhorn Foundation is an NGO and CIFAL training centre endorsed by the United Nations, on issues of global concern related to sustainability, environment, peace and shelter.

    Wherever Gill finds herself working internationally she actively seeks out wilderness places.

    As a co-founder of Trabajo de Procesos, a Spanish Processwork school in Barcelona, Gill offers comprehensive short and longterm trainings in Processwork methodologies.

    Gill is also an accredited UKCP Supervisor, Psychotherapist and offers Supervision for Processwork & Psychotherapy students.

    Workshop themes include:

    • Cultivating resilience

    • Conflict resolution

    • Leadership

    • Healing Trauma

    • “The Braided Way: Deep Democracy & Community” : This PhD thesis deconstructs social change processes. And touches on topics such as signals, roles, dimensions of rank and power, belief systems, and phenomenological experience.

    • From Conflict to Community : Essay published in ‘Beyond You and Me’.