Mia is a Facilitator, Trainer, Researcher and Strategist. Mia co-founded Reos Partners in 2007 and co-founded Reos Partners in the UK in 2008.
Recently Mia has worked as a Facilitator for Climate Change and Development Knowledge Network’s Innovation Lab, a gathering of 100+ change agents and climate change professionals to create innovation in the field. She has also co-authored a literature review on youth engagement.
Mia has also co-designed a course in Effective Group Facilitation, Personal Creativity and the U-process and the U-process.
Mia has recently led the production of the Reos Review and the Reos blog, www.reos-retro.com as well as researching and writing an extended case study on the Sustainable Food Lab.
Since founding Reos she has been working with the Change Lab as a method to address complex issues. This has included work on sustainable tourism in three Black townships in South Africa, peace and conflict resolution processes in Cyprus with adults and young people, sustainable mobility (transport) with WWF in 5 European cities, sustainable education in England and supporting efforts to convene a global change lab on sustainable finance. She has been conducting trainings in change lab methodologies and supporting multi-stakeholder partnerships seeking to make systemic changes.
In the lead up to the Copenhagen negotiations in December 09, Mia co-facilitated several events focusing on strategy and community building with Climate Action Network and WWF international in India and Copenhagen. Mia was also involved in facilitating the creation of CEDAR, a network of European Muslim professionals. After this she worked as a programme designer and communications manager on a project called the Metropolitan Agriculture Innoversity, a network supporting systemic innovation in 6 global cities in partnership with TransForum, a Dutch agricultural organisation.
Mia has a BSc in Human Sciences. Her thesis focused on different disciplinary approaches to human’s relationships to nature, with an emphasis on International Relations, Psychology, Ecology and Sociobiology.
Mia also has an MA in medical anthropology. Her thesis involved fieldwork into healing and transformation processes through arts, media and performance in a South African township, KwaMashu. Her thesis is called: “Seeing the Global in the Body: An Experimental Inquiry into Township Dance.”
Before studying for a degree in Human Sciences, she worked as a community development worker in North East Thailand. After her degree, Mia worked as a consultant at Shared Intelligence, an economic and social regeneration consultancy company. With SI, she facilitated multi-stakeholder action-learning groups on the topic of neighbourhood management and urban economic and social renewal. At SI she co-authored “More than Influencing: A guide to social change in the UK”, including topics such as participatory budgeting and other participatory methodologies for social renewal.
Mia is a keen cyclist, and practices many forms of creative expression from painting to song writing.