About Rose

I’m Rose Diamond. My work at Tribe in Transtion brings together a lifetime of experience and covers the spectrum of skills for navigating psycho-spiritual transition, living soulfully and co-creating a whole new world.

Everything we need is already here, inside us and between us: Our power lies in connection, consciousness, creativity, community and soulful conversation.   

My mission is to contribute my wisdom and skills to the transformation of consciousness on Earth and the co-creation of a new culture of peace, unity, harmony and creative freedom. I invite you to join me in developing the skills we need so we can move through the confusion and disintegration of transition, and emerge as authentic, empowered  co-creators, making and nurturing a whole new world. 

I look forward to meeting and connecting with you!

My Vision:

Through the transformation of consciousness on Earth, we will become an inspired and compassionate humanity, co-creating a new culture of peace, unity, harmony and creative freedom for all people and all sentient beings.

My Mission:

To contribute to the renewal and ensouling of our world, I bring together learning communities that nurture higher states of consciousness and creativity.  I offer all my wisdom and skills to guide and facilitate people through the shifting sands of psycho-spiritual transitions, so that troubled times can become the deepest wellspring of your healing, wisdom, life purpose and creative empowerment.

Tribe in Transition offers a unique blend of skills to encourage, empower and equip you through the process of transformation:

Whole Person Experiential Learning in which Your Authentic Expression is Always at the Centre

The practice of transformation is enlivening and thrilling and it can also be challenging, emotionally intense and confusing. In these troubled times, none of us can maintain a more expanded consciousness alone; we need each other. Tribe in Transition provides intentional online spaces for groups to come together to explore and share experiences around agreed themes; the inquiry is supported by written guidebooks designed to be used as stimulus materials. We keep our groups small, on average 8-12 people, so that everyone in the group has a chance to speak and be heard; this in itself is transformational. Then, to maintain the energy and expansion of the discovery conversations we encourage you to undertake simple practices to develop the skills for more enlightened living and to spark experimental actions. By meeting over several weeks or months we build trust, momentum and ongoing support. I would love to help you to connect more fully with your own wisdom, soul inspired motivation and authentic truth.

The Opportunity to Develop Trust in Your Healing Process by Sharing Your Inner World Experiences

At the heart of the transformational process is the inner knowing of wholeness and inter-connection. But while we may know wholeness and inter-connection within the heart, most of us  are in the process of  deep healing from fragmentation and isolation. Our groups offer the opportunity to build a soul-centred group culture in which we can discover a common language through which we can communicate, explore, and better understand what often seem like very personal and subtle inner experiences. Such sharing can bring a deep sense of relief as we realise we are not separate but part of a shared human story. As trust and skills develop, we can all feel safe enough to explore at the growing edge of our own consciousness. Then, as we open to exploration and risk being vulnerable, we see more clearly how old shame, fear, trauma and unprocessed grief have created interruptions, blocks and resistances in our creative process and joy of life. By being willing to sit with these shadowy aspects of the self and to release what we no longer need to carry with us, we can integrate the strength and power that has been tied up in us and move ahead with grace and ease. This is a continuing journey of deepening trust in your own intuition, inner guidance and gifts, as well as a deepening into being held by the essential interconnectedness and intelligence of life.

Skills for Becoming  an Empowered Creator

You may not identify as a creative person, or have any ambitions to write books or create projects, but we are all creative in our own way and learning how to co-operate with your own creative process is essential to well-being. There is an intelligent life force seeking to move through you at all times. As you allow the limiting identities, stories and beliefs that have held you to be deconstructed and to melt away, this creative intelligence calls you out and invites you to become the most skilful and empowered creator you can be. You can bring this new consciousness into embodiment and form in your own unique way.

There is always more to learn about the creative process. I have been  fascinated by it, and learning about it, for a lifetime, and yet it is always new and challenging. Being in beginner’s mind; being passionately engaged and yet unattached to outcomes; honouring your own creative cycles; harvesting the gifts from the imaginal realm; these are just a few of the essential skills I’d love to explore with you so that you can make your own unique contribution and find fulfilment.

Faith in the Power of the Collective.

It has been said that the next Buddha will be a Sangha; or, in other words, the next enlightened being to uplift the world, will be a like-hearted community evolving together.

When we come together in conversation, in intentional learning circles, we step out of isolation and, together, we can create a more expanded energy field. This both grounds us in a shared human experience and uplifts us so that we can see more possibilities. As we practice putting language to our experiences from a state of presence we gently unfold our growing edge, and advance together with greater ease and grace. We deepen into being held by the essential interconnectedness and intelligence of life, and we remember each of us has a unique part to play

A Global, Big Picture Perspective

Transformation, the Soul Journey, the conscious evolutionary process – whatever you like to call it – does not move in a linear fashion. It is an expansion of consciousness deeper, higher, and wider. You could say that we humans grow like the rings of a tree trunk or like a ripple in the water spreading out in ever wider circles.

Each time we move through a healing crisis and let go of a limiting belief or an outgrown identity, we see more clearly and know more fully what it is to be human. We grow in self-compassion and compassion for others and so there are less divisions in our world. We become less focused on “me” and what I want and more focused on “we” and the wellbeing of the greater whole of which we are part. When we truly know that all life is interconnected we have no other choice but to serve life with all our heart.

The next new, more expansive and creatively free version of yourself, as well as our hope for a whole new world arising from the ashes of the old, lies in the flowering of this soulful “new consciousness” which connects us back into the living wholeness of life and to what is essentially meaningful, nourishing and supportive of our survival and evolution.

If you resonate with what I am saying, there are many ways you can participate. I look forward to connecting with you.

With Love, Rose Diamond 

Soul, Soul Work and the Soul Journey

 The greatest love affair of my life has been an ever-developing relationship with the mystery we call Soul and in growing my understanding of Soul Work and the Soul Journey.

The Soul Work of an individual makes itself known through the recurring themes of a lifetime – those aspects of your life that define you and keep shapeshifting into new forms, either in your inner world or in your work in the world. These are the events which seem inevitable, or come so easily you barely notice them, but looking back you can’t imagine how your life would have been without them. The Soul Journey is the story through which these recurring themes and motifs emerge, evolve and transform – the synchronicities; the people you meet by chance who you feel you have known for ever; the quest for people, places and experiences that will make your life feel complete and at home. At the core of all of this is your creative process and how skilful you can become at co-operating with the creative heart of life.

I feel fortunate that I can see the themes of my Soul Work so clearly. I know this is not the same for everyone. Many people struggle for a lifetime trying to find their gifts or to believe in themselves enough to engage with their creative process consistently. Some people have told me that they don’t have a great sense of meaning, purpose or direction in life and yet they create beautiful things. And for the majority of people all of this is a foreign language. But for those of us on a conscious healing and creative path have a need to make sense of these deeper dimensions of life, and in doing so we contribute to the conscious evolution of our species.

My own Soul Journey has unfolded in 11-year chapters and I am going to share the main themes with you, as a way for you to know me better and to illuminate my theme.

A Global, Universal Perspective

I was born in England and passed my childhood on the outskirts of London. I lived for 19 years in Scotland, 3 years in Virginia USA, and 17 years in the South Island of New Zealand. Now I’m back in my homeland in Wales, UK.  Living on different sides of the world, combined with ever-evolving spiritual and political perspectives, has enabled me to I live from a global vision, and beyond.

Age 11, My Mission Began in Childhood

I was a bright, shy child from an unhappy home living in a privileged country in the cultural period when post-war austerity was opening into new possibilities of which people could never previously have dreamed. I grew up with the values of democracy and the welfare state, and yet in my own home I experienced oppression. I always knew there was something more than material comfort and consumer toys and that, as soon as I could, I would go out and find whatever it was.

From the viewpoint of soul choices, my unhappy family provided the perfect conditions to seed in me a powerful longing for social justice and creative freedom. Slowly, slowly, I entered the healing process and learned how to free myself from the restrictions on my fullest expression. As I have liberated myself, I have also followed a strong desire to facilitate the empowerment of others.

 Age 22, Liberation and Empowerment

My first teaching job in a tough girls comprehensive school in London was a baptism by fire. I started teaching by default and then discovered it to be my vocation, and I have been involved in many forms of education ever since. The root, educare, means to draw out, and over my lifetime I have developed the skills to create intentional spaces and stimulus materials exploring common human themes, to draw out participant’s authentic truths and wisdom.

At the same moment, I was attracted into the second wave of the Women’s Liberation Movement which was breaking on the shores of the western world as I was entering womanhood. The brilliant feminist books I read over the next 25 years animated my whole being and led me into an exploration of how a people become oppressed and how we can liberate ourselves. These women writers revealed interconnected aspects of psychology, culture, soul and politics and helped me to understand, at a much deeper level, how we have all been shaped and mis-shaped by the politics of power. It became my mission to free myself and to pass on whatever I was learning to others, so that they could empower themselves.

 Age 33,  Leadership and Awakening

As I entered adulthood, I began to separate psychologically from my family and from mainstream society, and to learn who I am as a unique individual. In my early 30’s, my classroom expanded into the whole of Scotland where I worked as a Field Officer for a national education unit. This role gave me the opportunity push through my fears of speaking out, and being seen, and revealed an innate gift for leadership. My life became a playground for action and experimentation as I pushed through shyness and introversion to become an innovative whole person educator, working throughout Scotland, and supporting community leaders, health professionals and prison staff. I had a natural ability to spot emerging learning needs in the practitioner field and I spontaneously began to initiate and pilot innovative projects and write training materials. All of this completely surprised me and allowed me to give form to my mission to equip people with the skills to empower themselves. I was fired by a vision for a more co-operative world, and a passion for lifelong whole person learning.

My Soul Path found me and I’ve lived in response to an Inner Calling ever since.

Alongside this active, experimental orientation, I was also experiencing spontaneous inner awakenings. These began with a spontaneous welling-up of poetry when I was 28, when through my poems I discovered an authentic voice far wiser than my personality and an inner world I hadn’t known existed. In my early 30’s, my explorations deepened into the imaginal realm and I became an archaeologist of soul and the imaginal realm which was far more interesting to me than anything going on in the outer world.

Whole Person Learning and Healing

Simultaneously, I joined a training in Gestalt Therapy and began the powerful, transformational group work which I would love all my life and go on to develop in my own way. Gestalt introduced me to the skills that would be the foundation of all my future work: becoming present, aware and embodied; the transformational power of conversation; harnessing the power of the emotions; making the psychological shadow conscious; and being guided by intuition and the imagination.

My Free Spirit led me to Become an Entrepreneur

I was so fascinated and compelled by the gift of poetry  and my deep dives into the archaeology of soul that I left my full-time job in adult education to make more space to pursue my soul mission.  I soon realised I couldn’t live on poetry alone and created my own business, Teamwork, through which I developed my work as a personal and professional development trainer. Over the next ten years this grew into a successful six woman business and was still going strong when I left for my next leap into the unknown in 1992.

So, by the age of 33, all the themes of my Soul Work were revealed: the quest for liberation from cultural oppression; the desire to heal and free myself and then to use my educational skills to empower others; the quest for something beyond material reality; the descent into the inner world is a process of deep discovery, using writing and transformational group work as my vehicles; and an almost uncontainable creative spirit which would not be tied down to “normal” life.

Age 44,  I became an Edge Dweller

Dedicated Spiritual and Creative Practice

In my early 40’s, in the midst of an intense period of disillusionment, I was introduced to my first meditation practice, which had an immediate and profoundly healing effect on me. In response to an irresistible pull inwards I determined to pursue my passion for writing and to follow my creative process wherever it led me. I left my business, my therapy practice, my home, professional community and friends, and for a while I chose to live on the margins of social “normality”, finding sanctuary in wild and beautiful landscapes.  I set off for expansive landscapes and big skies, first in the north-west Highlands of Scotland, where I wrote my first book, and then to the South Island of New Zealand. My physical Soul Journey had begun.

This was when I really became an edge-dweller. Whereas my previous life chapter had been about action, experimentation, relationship, accumulation, building and being “out there”, this new chapter was about learning to sit, wait, surrender, let go and become empty. This was a big challenge and the spiritual practices that came to support me took me to places therapy hadn’t begun to touch. Meditation and spiritual practice were the tools for a thorough process of clearing and cleansing that echoed down the soul line. Whilst still half asleep to what I had chosen, yet irresistibly drawn forward and committed, I dedicated myself to this task of following my soul as I gathered tools for transformation and conscious evolution.

A year later, I left the UK for New Zealand and decided to make my home there. I was questing for the light and spent as much time as I could in spiritual practice, writing and participating in community. I lived in a part of the country where there was a big tribe of people from many parts of the world who wanted to live in a more natural, community and soul-based way. I also had a part-time job in a college for seven years teaching counselling and gestalt therapy skills.

Age 55, Transformation, Soul Friends and Visions for a Whole New World

I took another leap into the unknown, left my job and went to live in a small, remote, culturally colourful, seaside community. I knew there was something more for me to do and that it had something to do with transformation, but I wasn’t yet clear what it was.

I published my first full-length book, Migration to the Heartland, and met the two soul friends who would accompany me on my next 11-year adventure. At this point the practice of deep discovery conversations and the importance of creating a Soul Sanctuary became an important vehicle for exploration and co-creation. Maggie and I explored Soul together and then joined a transformational community to learn about the evolutionary impulse. Woods and I focused on what it means to Live Your Passion, while I wrote a book on the subject, and co-founded A Whole New World in 2007, and this became Tribe in Transition in 2013.  

Transformational Learning

After a decade dedicated to spiritual practice and writing, in 2000 I became intensely creative and began to invent my own unique approaches to transformational learning.  I wrote books, made websites, ran workshops and programmes, and conducted numerous experiments in this new, holistic discipline.  The work has been evolving and guiding me ever since. I co-founded A Whole New World in 2007 with my soul friend Woods Elliott, and this became Tribe in Transition in 2013.  

” The choices I’ve made to uncompromisingly live my passion have led me to let go of social conditioning, old stories and limiting beliefs and to travel light. I was a seeker for many years. Eventually, I learned that everything I had been looking for is already inside me and emerges through creative work and in relationship with others. My experiences have taught me to see beyond society’s judgements about success and failure, what is normal and what is pathological, what it means to be rich or poor. It’s been a process of shedding skins, trial and error, death and rebirth, radical uncertainty and deepening trust”

Age 66,  Sitting with Death and Choosing Life

In 2015 I decided to return to the UK to support my brother, David, through a difficult transition. At the end of that year, Woods died, and then six months later my brother also.  These losses catapulted me into one of the most challenging transformational periods of my life. Over the course of what I have come to call “my seven years of grief” I felt taken apart, stripped of all my powers and then put back together in a new way. And yet, there have been big gifts and the creation of the Sitting with Death and Choosing Life Programme is the most obvious of these. I started by writing my way through grief following Woods’ death and the project just kept growing. During this time, I’ve written many books, held more than 50 recorded conversations with practitioners, written and piloted the five interconnected courses that make up the programme, gathered community and trained facilitators to take the work out into the world, while I’ve continued to evolve my writing practice. The integration I’ve achieved through this work has confirmed for me that being willing to descend to the bottom of grief holds the key, not only for individual transformation, but for a positive life-enhancing shift in our culture. Healing and creativity are two threads that weave together the light and the shadow of human existence into a beautiful garment in which suffering and joy are lovers lying in each other’s arms.