Home Publication Education Volunteer Wor

DIALOGUE WEAVER · LEADERSHIP RESEARCHER · FACILITATOR

Where teams discover the collective wisdom they already hold

I help organizations, teams, and learning circles to unlock collective intelligence through creative dialogue, embodied practice, and intentional space design, leading to new ideas, prototypes, clarity, and flow in their work.

What I Offer

Research-informed practice,

grounded in nurturing learning and leadership

Leadership Programs

Immersive workshops that go beyond traditional training. We work with teams to activate both self-leadership and collective capacity—using creative tools, dialogue methods, and the Theory U framework to navigate complexity together.

Learning Designs

I partner with educational organizations to design learning experiences that matter. Through action research, participatory methodologies, storytelling, and embodied practice, we create spaces where people don't just learn—they transform.

The Flow Game

An interactive facilitation tool that creates powerful containers for reflection and action. Used with teams, groups, and individuals to bring clarity, strengthen purpose, and unlock flow in leadership and life.

MY STORY

Why I do

What I do

"There is a leader in everyone. It's not about knowing it all; it's aboutholding space for what wants to emerge through the collective."

I didn't arrive at this work through theory alone. Life handed me moments where I had to rebuild from the ground up—moments that taught me theprofound power of creating containers where people find meaning, trust,and shared purpose.Working with young adults in a school setting, I witnessed somethingremarkable: when you create the right conditions, people step into theirleadership naturally. Not because they were told to, but because they feltheld by something larger than themselves. That's what my work is about. Building the conditions where teams,educators, and organizations can access their collective wisdom—and move from there.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Nurturing beyond survival mode

FEATURED PROJECT

DOCTORAL EDUCATION · COMMUNITY RESILIENCE · FINLAND

Beyond Survival Mode: Community-Based Resilience Among DoctoralStudents in Finland

This research investigates resilience as a collective leadership capacity within doctoral education. Rather than viewing resilience solely as individual survival or as a psychological construct, the study examines how resilience emerges through community connection and collaboration, with the potential to reshape academic practices.

LEADERSHIP · DESIGN · FACILITATION

The Flow Game 108

An ongoing experiential learning journey exploring how play-based design facilitation creates conditions for transformation, collective wisdom, and clarity to emerge. This project bridges game design, dialogue theory, and awareness-based leadership—investigating what happens when we bring intention, play, and emergence together.

DOCTORAL EDUCATION · DIALOGUE · LIMINAL SPACE

Navigating the Liminal Space of a PhD Journey

What happens when doctoral researchers from three countries create the conversations the system doesn't make space for? This 3-week online dialogue lab researchers from Finland, India, and Germany explored human dimensions of the PhD—uncertainty, identity shift, and the generative potential of being in-between.

KIND WORDS

What others say

"Bhavani's very friendly, proactive way motivated the group to always stay engaged. Her workshops were incredibly well prepared—a wonderful mix of structure and flexibility, delivered with a deeply empathic approach. It was always a pleasure to work with her.