In prophetic times, we heal together
Come be in Grandmother's Hut.
Decolonial Thought Partner.
Walking with those standing at a threshold.
Grounded in CARE
The Art of Returning.The Alchemy of Regeneration.The Architecture of Reverence.
— for us who seek to human differently.
I work at the intersection of social change, storytelling, and soma-poetic CARE.
Collective Liberation · Accountability · Right Relationship · Embodied Practices
Join a year of intentional CARE →
Hello, I'm Yolanda
Dreamt into being by my grandmothers.
My maternal grandmother took my small hand when I was eight years old, initiating me onto a path that has spent more than forty years deepening through loss, growth, and the slow turning of seasons and cycles.
My paternal grandmother crossed the veil in a refugee camp, yet she found me across the mist, speaking to me through the language of dreams.
When I sat with this collage, the sediment of her river rose up to meet me—ancient, unsettled, instructions that carry powerful medicine.
For over two decades, I have served across the United Nations and international NGOs—driving food security and refugee initiatives in the Great Lakes Region, championing child rights advocacy in Geneva, and building community alongside refugees and minority ethnic women in the UK.
As a Montessori Directress, my life's work weaves institutional depth with grounded, relational pedagogy.
In 2003 I was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as a Pioneer of the Nation in the Voluntary Sector. Today, decades of leadership, governance and systems experience meet ancestral practice. You don't have to choose between boardroom and Circle, strategy and soul.
More about Yolanda →You may be here because something no longer fits — a role, an identity, a relationship, a way of being.
Together we dismantle blame, shame and tame, and reclaim the parts of ourselves that were dormant, forgotten or silenced — with tenderness, with discipline, with ceremony.
This is for You if…
You are a strong human of this world — and…
- ✦You feel the weight of the polycrises and refuse to look away.
- ✦You are scared, tired or bored — even while others see your strength.
- ✦You have lived and led across borders, and still feel misunderstood.
- ✦You long to be more intentional and innovative.
What changes
Your voice
is articulated.
Your vision
is aligned.
Your vulnerability
moves You, even when isolated.
Strategic facilitation · Eldering · Collaborating with care
Three pathways
Three pathways for leaders, boards, and global organisations ready to transition and tend to their people with dignity.
One-to-One
The Art of Returning
Mentoring, eldering and sacred companionship for founders, executive directors, and senior leaders standing at institutional and personal thresholds.
Begin with an Oracle Reading →Strategic Facilitation & Cohorts
The Alchemy of Regeneration
Facilitation, group mentoring and eldering circles for frontline changemakers and international teams practising radical care in real time.
Book a discovery call →Keynotes & Strategic Convenings
The Architecture of Reverence
Provocations and gatherings that open the invisible layer: ancestral wisdom, radical care, and decolonial thought.
Invite Yolanda to speak →Beneath the Soil · Self-paced audio →Love Moves Us · Self-paced recording →
Your journey
The possibility of being held.
Begin gently. Each step flows naturally into the next, whenever you are ready.
We begin with a free discovery call — a conversation.
- 1
First step
Be heard
Oracle Reading · £111
A one-hour Oracle Reading, received by email or by audio — your choice.
- 2
Next step
Be tended
Sacred Ritual · £1,098
A three-hour Sacred Ritual for what the reading has opened.
- 3
Deeper step
Be held
SOUL Mentoring · £4,444
Twelve weeks of SOUL Mentoring. Payment plans available.
Kind words
“I remember Yolanda’s power in my bones, in my tears, and in my chest’s trembling response to her words to me one weekend on a bus in Switzerland. The words arrived gently, unassuming but memorable, like rain in the desert: ‘You did good.’That’s all. I wasn’t seeking affirmation. But something about the way she said those words rang with the vibrancy of an elderly prestige, like she knew things ordinary ways of knowing couldn’t appreciate. And none other than Yolanda herself offered a conceptual way to hold the moment when she spoke about a ‘prior generosity’.Yolanda knows the music that gave birth to music. She is wise, and that is rare.”
“She is a beacon for becoming real and coming home to the quiet rapture of every day.”
“Yolanda is a serious (and very joyful) force of Love in this world. She is a gifted writer and every word she writes inspires us to enter the heart of Love more fully.”
“Every time you speak, we are assured we belong, we are safe. You are the voice of home.”
“There is a before and an after meeting Yolanda. She expands your universe.”
My Substack letter
You are invited into Letters from Grandmother’s Hut.