Projects → Organising Trust
Trust is a foundational element of social capital in the workplace. When we collaborate, we’re not only solving tasks—we’re building relationships. And relationships thrive when there is trust. Trust means we dare to be open and vulnerable: to ask questions, admit mistakes, and seek help, because we have a positive expectation that others won’t take advantage of it. Trust generates more trust—and it often starts with someone being willing to trust first.
Since summer 2024, I have worked as a Junior Consultant at DM–a union for academics in Denmark. In the Danish labour market, most workplaces have elected employee representatives, known as tillidsvalgte. These representatives play a key role in ensuring fair working conditions, supporting colleagues, and promoting dialogue between employees and management.
At DM, I support these workplace representatives through learning initiatives, events, and network development.
My role focuses on strengthening collaborative cultures in and between organisations. I work across project development, facilitation, and communication—often with a regenerative and learning-oriented approach.
My tasks include:
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Developing educational materials for union and workplace representatives, focusing on psychological safety, change management, conflict resolution, and sustainable collaboration.
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Facilitating and coordinating networks for elected representatives in various professional sectors.
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Leading the project management of Tillidsprisen 2025—an award celebrating trust-based leadership and workplace democracy.
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Co-creating events and workshops that support knowledge sharing, empowerment, and cross-sector dialogue among workplace representatives.
Linking art and organisational work
Although my role at DM is outside the art world, it deeply informs my curatorial and mediation practice. I see strong connections between participatory cultural work and union organising—both involve creating frameworks for collective meaning-making, cultural care, and long-term transformation.
Working within a union context has sharpened my interest in how systems—cultural, educational, and institutional—can be reshaped through practices grounded in trust, dialogue, and shared responsibility.
This experience informs how I approach curating and facilitation as acts of organising not only exhibitions or events, but ways of being and working together.