plurality
consulting + contemplation
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I offer time and space for a vigorous enquiry into your work. We might look at purpose and focus, organise priorities and workflows, but also ask about meaning and discover the questions that need contemplation rather than strategy. I work with professionals, particularly those whose ways of thinking and doing set them apart - be it by choice or circumstance.
Think /
Articulate, examine and organise your thoughts and ideas.
Discern /
Discern your priorities, limitations and both practical and moral considerations.
Act /
Make decisions, form strategy and develop disciplines for spiritual sustenance.
Practical questions
What are you trying to do? How will you do it? Focus and priority can be difficult to extricate from all that we know, all that we've been told and all the possiblities. We need to think through scenarios, but also moderate the desire to perfectly plan with the need to decide and act.
Our industries and roles can maintain certain ideas about what is and isn't the way to do things. What's expected of you in the arts, compared to engineering can be very different. So how do we open up methods to be trans-discplinary?
Our time is finite but energy can be focused on the priorty and it can be skillfully used. When daily processes are more attuned to how we work as an indivisual, we use less of it. We can modify our own physical and mental energy, using sensory and intelelctural stimulation, using both rest and variety, routines and spontinaity.
Above all else, we have to earn a living; our circumstances and choices define how much this costs us. Beyond income, we may want ways of living with others that allow us to share our economic and care burdens - mutual aid may be the antidote to a shrinking state and high costs of living.
Questions help us open up our thinking and help us refine and discern. Exploring the practical matters helps us have more confidence in our decisions and clarity about the next action.
Moral questions
Who or what are we accountable to? There's our own conscience, our family, people in our community, and maybe beyond the humans - a supernatural authority.
Many of us no longer inherit a religious tradition to commune with or examine ourselves through. How do we then make meaning and link ourselves to forces beyond, be it humanity, nature, or the God that you know?
Public life may have lost the places and practices we need to shape our views in contrast with others. Meanwhile, the way power is distributed has changed more quickly than our political institutions. Now, system-level change is a long process. But we enter the public realm every day and might want to ask: how can we understand the people we disagree with, how do we negotiate and influence our context?
Definitive answers to moral questions might not be helpful. But knowing the questions you're carrying could be a vital part of life.
"You helped me articulate it in my own words. It's so hard to talk about your own art, but this helped me do it with meaningful words."
Visual Artist
"We freed up my mind and then the work flowed naturally. I could focus, things that had been stuck a long time were suddenly easy to take care of."
Company Director
"Natasha is always focused on exploring and resolving problems, she's not concerned about being right."
Designer
Working with me
Introductions & fit
If you're considering working with me, please email and we can arrange an introductory call. At no charge, we'll have 20 minutes to answer your questions and get a feel for working together.
Online & in-person
I work mainly online and also in person with clients in and around both Worthing, West Sussex and St Albans, Hertfordshire. We can record and use auto-transcribe for your sessions, if you would like.
Fees
I charge £45 per hour for face-to-face time and editing time. I charge £15 an hour for preparation, such as reading or listening to materials. I offer lower rates for clients on UC.
Biography
I began professional life in student politics in the late 90s. I went on to manage a charity, and in 2005, I moved to Singapore. I worked for the National Arts Council on the first Singapore biennale, began writing for local magazines and became a life model.
I wrote for Time Out Singapore and an Australian men's magazine, and began to work freelance on website and branding projects. I developed specialisms in verbal branding and content planning, working on an early consumer logistics site and brand guidelines for India's largest telecomms company. I volunteered in the Singapore equivalent of MIND and ran a weekly creative meet-up for freelancers.
Over Christmas 2011, I turned down a role at McKinsey and took the role of corporate communication manager in a family-owned multinational instead. I managed a team of internal consultants, working across South East Asia. Creatively, I ran a regular spoken word event, wrote poetry and returned to visual art making.
I moved to Amsterdam in 2015, seven weeks pregnant. I continued to work with clients on websites, articles and concept development. I worked with several artists and continued my long-term collaboration with an independent neuroscience researcher. Parenting was a rich source of philosophical problems that I explored through study and rich conversation with friends. I took theatre, movement and critical studies courses, and experimented with performance art. I learnt Dutch, volunteered at the Vondelpark, formed mutual aid groups during the pandemic and grew vegetables at the community garden.
After 18 years overseas, I returned to the UK in 2022. I have since worked on consulting, editing and writing projects. I continue to life model and have participated in local arts events - including Worthing's Got Talent 2023! I am part of a mutual aid group and am developing ideas around housing in later life. I run a cleaning business, which fulfils my need to earn some of my living in physical work and helps me maintain my movement practices.
I am launching plurality in 2026, as a new iteration of my consulting work, allowing for both the practical and philosophical aspects of work and life.
Natasha Golding
"I don't know the answers, yet. But now I know what I need to explore. I have the right questions in front of me."
Applied Neuroscience Researcher
"It helped me think about how I ask the questions, I had felt I was being condescending but when I relate to my experience I'm just curious."
Activist
"I hadn't thought about daily practice like that. The way routines and rituals provide me with structure"
Teacher
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