The Founders
Liz Terry
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Liz is a Founder and Director of Pathways To Ventures CIC. She is an experienced group facilitator, Natural Voice Practitioner, mentor, trainer, singer, multi arts facilitator and Shiatsu Practitioner with over 20 years experience in working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Liz currently works in local community, for National initiatives and for International organisations.
See here for her website. www.lizterry.org.uk Over the last 20 years Liz has designed and delivered a wide variety of programmes and events, taking her work into environmental charities, creative based organisations working for social change, and therapeutic work. Liz has spent many years working with marginalised and vulnerable groups. Her work has taken her into health, education and community settings. She devised and delivered hundreds of trainings for teachers on inclusive vocal and music practice, worked with thousands of children and young people in Schools and has presented at Conferences. Liz works within the core team of Women In Power https://womeninpoweruk.com/ Runs programmes for Tree Sisters https://treesisters.org/ Liz co founded The Music Works https://www.themusicworks.org.uk/ where she led on developing and managing the vocal strategy for the County with a focus on supporting all children and young people, especially those in challenging circumstances. www.themusicworks.org.uk. Previous to that she worked full time for Sing Up (Area Leader and Trainer for 3 counties),with WOMAD, Centre For The Spoken Word, MIND, Hospitals, Children's Centres, GARAS, Cheltenham Music Festival outreach and performance based programmes in schools and community groups. Alongside this work, Liz organised The Rose Circle trainings for women and teenage girls in the UK in 2012 . She currently runs Pathways Groups for teen young women seeded from those trainings and delivers Pathways mentoring trainings to support this work to grow. Liz has attended trainings in counselling skills, mentoring, NVC, mindfulness, voice/singing, sensory ritual theatre, dance/movement and a variety of leadership, personal development and therapeutic work. She has performed with Naked Voices and other singing/music/theatre groups. Liz has 2 children- now young adults and she lives with her husband Ianto in the vibrant community of Stroud. |
Ianto Doyle
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Ianto is a Founder and Director of Pathways To Ventures CIC. He is Central Co-Ordinator for Journeymanuk having been involved with developing it as a charity over the last decade. He coordinates and organises Rites Of Passage events and the on going JourneymanUK groups for teenage boys. He does coaching and mentoring.
Ianto runs a Yurt making business (nu-yurt-tents.com) and trained in Counselling and Homeopathy. He began his working life as a community artist, after specialising in a ceramics degree after a Social Sciences diploma at University. He travelled overland to South India for 8 months as a young person in 1986 and worked for many years at The Centre for Alternative Technology in mid Wales learning about sustainability, renewable energy and eco design and build. Ianto has run his own business as an eco-builder and carpenter; lived on a 12 volt run eco community in West Wales, explored alternatives to mainstream education for his children and worked for Wynstones School, a well established Waldorf School for an 11 year period. Ianto has a practical and creative orientation to work and life and has spent much of his working life doing and making things with people in teams. Pathways To Ventures is a natural progression and a new venture for him. Ianto is married to Liz (above) who he met when he was working at CAT. They have two children, a daughter and a son. www.journeymanuk.org www.nu-yurt-tents.com www.coachingwithianto.co.uk/ |
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Rachel Dymond
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Rachel has worked as an executive coach and organisational consultant for over 20 years in the UK, and internationally, helping teams and individuals find meaning and purpose at both a personal and professional level.
She runs her own consultancy business based in Stroud. A trained counsellor, she has a special interest in bereavement previously working for the Samaritans & CRUSE. She currently volunteers at Winston's Wish where she works with children who have complex bereavement needs and also mentors care leavers for Barnardo's. Over the years she has run mentoring schemes for disaffected young people in Reading, focusing on raising self-esteem and academic achievement. She provided mentoring training for the local business community who were then able to support over 200 mentees. She is qualified in positive psychology and aspires to increase hope, optimism and action in those who are unsure of their strengths or path in life. Her warmth and sense of humour enable her to create strong and trusting relationships with children and young people and she very much believes in the power of non-judgemental communication to help support and challenge. |
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Rosie Mason
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Rosie is an actor, theatre practitioner, teacher, choreographer and movement teacher. She currently teaches Belly fit classes – holistic movement classes for women, inspired by belly dance, bhangra, Pilates and yoga. She also leads youth theatre sessions for Flies on the Wall youth theatre as well as running ad-hoc drama, movement and clown workshops for various groups such as Dramarama, School of Larks and Allsorts Youth Club and within schools. She has two young daughters.
Rosie feels passionately about how movement, body image and self-expression can be a helpful as an engaging medium in working with young people. Rosie is able to incorporate her many skills when working within the mentoring groups- offering yoga and meditation as tools to effectively manage stress. |
Christina Macnamara
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Christina is a coach, artist and group facilitator. She garduated in French and lived and studied in Paris before moving to the US to do a masters in Fine Art. She is currently a creative coach and runs her own business. She has run creative based retreats, faciltated a wide range of groups and works one to one work with people. Christina has studied counselling and Jungian based therapy and brings together a mix of valuable skills for supporting teen young women. She contributes as a mentor to both the ongoing groups and the Summer Camps. Christina brings a warm, intuitive, creative way of working with metaphor, embodiment and personal imagery. |
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Daisy Burt
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Daisy is a talented musician with a first class honours degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. She believes passionately in engaging with teenage girls and young women as a mentor.
Daisy’s own experiences as a teenage girl have led her to believe that having support outside of family and school is central in enabling young women to gain confidence and find their own direction in life. She has had first-hand experience of growing up in the digital age and is very aware of the impacts that this can have on young people. Daisy hopes that through being involved in the group mentoring work that she can help provide opportunities for young women opportunities to form healthy bonds, not only with their peers and family, but also to themselves. Daisy brings her love of music, of nature, of humour and sense of fun to the group and to the Summer Camps. She has a naturally warm and engaging personality which can enable the most nervous of teenage young women to feel reassured and welcomed. Daisy has assisted the team with the International Student Camps. Currently she works for Creative Sustainability, a local CIC working in and around Stroud and is considering her next steps in Music Therapy training. |
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Rosie Terry Toogood
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Rosie Terry Toogood graduated LIPA, Liverpool in 2011 gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Dance and Performing Arts. After further studies in Israel at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company she went on to perform with Jérôme Bel, Joss Arnott and Nina Kov. Rosie collaborated as a performer with Léa Tirabasso and forms part of the Collective Bufo Makmal as a co-artistic director since 2015 and ALL.ES on tour with TanzPlan Ost) as well as co-creating and performing in VIEL.ES, A zur e (shown in Japan and England) and Wishbone. Bufo Makmal was selected for the Young Associated Artist Program YAA! at Roxy Theatre, supported by Pro Helvetia.Rosie has been researching and performing Flluid with different artists in both public and private art spaces, a dance and multi arts immersive performance.
She is also a certified STOTT Pilates instructor. She has worked as an assisted mentor in Pathways Camps and groups working with teenage girls sharing movement and body work Rosie is part of the Pathways team working with International students college and has 10 years experience with leading dance and body work classes, Her main passion is to help guide people into their fluid possibilities in their body through gentle movement, sounding and dance. She is currently based in Liverpool and contributes to the online zoom Pathways groups. |
Wider Mentor Team
Sola Story AKA Olusola Adebiyi grew up in a Yoruba (Nigerian) household in which the stories and proverbs learned from parents and relatives were’ root soil’ leading to an understanding of the universally healing nature of storytelling, song, drama and the arts in general.
Sola’s mission therefore is to provide people with ‘Narrative Mindfulness:’ stories concepts and tools that enliven, inspire and heal as well as entertain. As a Social Artist, Educator and Youth Leader, Sola specialises in inspiration drawing on 20 years of professional international experience combining ‘Physical Storytelling,’ ‘Narrative Mindfulness,’ discussion, creative facilitation and KaZimba Ngoma.
Sola is a regular member of the Pathways Team on the OIC Camps. His stories, leadership skills and warm, engaging presence are always a highlight of the Camp.
Sola’s mission therefore is to provide people with ‘Narrative Mindfulness:’ stories concepts and tools that enliven, inspire and heal as well as entertain. As a Social Artist, Educator and Youth Leader, Sola specialises in inspiration drawing on 20 years of professional international experience combining ‘Physical Storytelling,’ ‘Narrative Mindfulness,’ discussion, creative facilitation and KaZimba Ngoma.
Sola is a regular member of the Pathways Team on the OIC Camps. His stories, leadership skills and warm, engaging presence are always a highlight of the Camp.
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Nagako Cooper
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Nagako began to practice Shintaido in Japan in 1994 and has been passionate about this movement art which is based upon Japanese martial arts ever since. She teaches two weekly classes: Gentle Shintaido in Stroud and Lightwave Shintaido in Eastington, Gloucestershire. She is currently exam co-ordinator of the British Shintaido. www.shintaido.co.uk Nagako is also experienced in working with young people in challenging circumstances amd is also a qualified massage therapist working in Stroud. Shintaido is a gentle yet powerful martial art, which focuses on moving into a positive relationship with ourselves, other people and nature, through movement, sound, exercises, personal, interpersonal and group work. It uses somatic awareness and intelligence for personal development. |
The Pathways Leadership and OIC team
