About Stuart Taylor
Stuart is committed to positively transforming the way business, research, and cultural production is done. He champions working collaboratively, within a participatory and systemic framework with clients, colleagues, partners and stakeholders. His aim: to align and ground people strategy with organisational strategy and to inspire individuals to orient themselves around their passions. Always minded of equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and sustainability impacts. Stuart understands leadership as a high value, distributed collaborative capability. His work supports individuals and teams to develop agility and poise, ready to meet emergent realities with confidence, creativity, sensitivity and good humour.
Stuart is a published poet and writer. He has three children and lives in central London, UK with his partner Dr Poku, an academic specializing in culture, race and education. He draws inspiration from amongst others: the Black Panther Party, Thich Nhat Hahn, Ruth King, Angel Acosta, Bayo Akomolafe and Bernadine Evaristo. Nature is the perennial source of his joy.
About Stuart Taylor’s Research
Stuart’s research with MaSPP will focus on three interrelated themes pertaining to healing-centred decolonial praxis:
- What is the journey of discovery and illumination for an Afripean returning to ‘the Motherland’ of continental Africa – what happens and how does one document this experience in an incisive, critically informed and poetic way?
- What do the archival records of the Catholic Jesuit Mission in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, record for the period 1950-1970, when German national Bert Hellinger was a Missionary priest amongst the Zulu communities? How do these records inform and revise the common understanding of Systemic Constellations being an exclusively European-invented psychotherapeutic modality?
- In what ways does the encounter between Zulu culture in South Africa and the Catholic Jesuit Mission, illustrate the paradoxical dynamic of European colonial ambitions and African indigenous community’s resistance, cultures and cosmology’s prevailing through such an historical encounter into the contemporary era?