Pathway 03 · Who Am I
Who Am I Outside of What This Room Wants Me to Be?
A 12-week transformational programme for LGBTQ+ professionals navigating identity, leadership, and belonging through collective witnessing.
people are turning to AI for the very things the community should provide — being heard without judgment, exploring identity safely, processing loneliness, rehearsing difficult conversations. We understand why. Sometimes AI has felt safer than people. But AI cannot witness you. It has no stake in your becoming. It forgets you the moment the window closes. Who Am I exists because there is a version of community that is actually safe — where other LGBTQ+ professionals carry enough of the same tension to see you, really see you, without needing you to perform or explain.
What it is
Code-switching has a cost. We pay it together.
Code-switching is not a quirk of professional life — it is a survival adaptation that LGBTQ+ professionals run, every meeting, every email, every room. It works. And it is exhausting. Who Am I is the cohort where the switching gets put down — together — for long enough that something else becomes possible.
01 Stop performing the version of yourself the room asked for
02 Lead from wholeness — not from the gap between selves
03 Build a small circle of LGBTQ+ professionals who actually know you
04 Practise the conversations you have been rehearsing alone
Track record
Built and tested in the rooms where it matters.
250+
Professionals facilitated
78
Five-star testimonials from cohort participants
Cohorts delivered with — JP Morgan · Bloomberg · Coventry University · JTI
£1.5M
Reinvested through We Create Space
How it works
12 weeks. Six themes. One cohort.
Theme 1
Witnessing & belonging
Theme 2
Theme 4
Power & representation
Code-switching & cost
Theme 5
Body & somatic safety
Theme 3
Visibility & risk
Theme 6
Wholeness & integration
Cohort voices
In their words.
“I came in performing. I left with a circle that knew the version of me I had stopped showing anyone.”
— Who Am I, Cohort 1
“This is the first leadership programme that did not ask me to translate myself.”
— Who Am I, Cohort 2
“The Palaver group became the part of my week I protected most.”
— Who Am I, Cohort 1
“Maylis does not let the room hide. And she does not let it harm you either.”
— Who Am I, Cohort 2
“I learned that witnessing is a skill. Not a feeling. A skill.”
— Who Am I, Cohort 3
“I have stopped apologising for taking up space at work. That alone was worth it.”
— Who Am I, Cohort 3