About

Mutual Inspiration is a community interest company, formed by Mike Bell, Patricia Bell and Steve Day. The company works at the place where inner wisdom intersects with collective intelligence and has ambitious plans for Wellbeing Programmes, the promotion and support of new forms of mutual organisation to meet the challenge of personal budgets and developing new solutions to the complex problems facing the world at individual, societal and global levels.

Mike Bell

Mike’s first career was in marketing and then management and organisational development in the private sector. Since setting up on his own over 20 years ago he has specialised in leadership development and coaching as well as participative processes for resolving complex challenges. He has worked internationally with private and public organisations including NHS and Universities. He recently organised and led the open space conference for Social Enterprise Day.

Patricia Bell

Patricia Bell’s background includes executive officer in the civil service, developing youth as part of a Community Industry project, managing a back office team in the financial sector, and interviewing older people as part of a Newcastle University dementia research programme. For several years she has been a trainer on an international advanced personal development programme and has used this experience to work with young people and parents of autistic children.

Steve Day

Steve has had a varied career in pursuit of social justice, including teaching, community work, trade union activist and social enterprise as co-founder of Du.
His current mission is to expose the surreal world that is process driven public service reform and to promote the obvious truth that process has to serve vision and passion. He is convinced that, although life is not fair, human beings have a duty to strive to make it fairer.

Mutual Inspiration is a promoting new and mutual solutions to fundamental social innovation, engagement and enterprise issues. Because a few people at the top can’t find all the solutions, it is important that we adopt more collaborative and participative ways of coming together to co-create the future we desire.

The challenges we face in our communities are complex and made up of myriad interconnected parts that do not yield to logic. Complex problems require creativity and innovation, and diverse groups are the best source of these. Drawing on modern understanding and ancient wisdom we co-create purposeful approaches that bring wholeness and balance together with integrity and compassion to community and business ventures. Mutual Inspiration encourages and nurtures transformation though fresh perspectives and deeper insight into universal challenges, providing empowering ways for us all to contribute our gifts and expand and improve our experience of Life.