Biography
How did I come to be The Utopian Trainer?
Brought up by a single-mother in a remote area of Cymru (Wales), I migrated to England as an adult where I got a degree in business administration.
It’s my experiences outside of academia that have made me The Utopian Trainer though:
a childhood financed through the welfare state;
post-graduation long-term unemployment in a leaky bedsit;
voluntary work with organisations that assist homeless people;
packing frozen food in boxes in a factory;
doing tours in the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial sites;
working as a trainer since 2008 through three German international voluntary service, the European Solidarity Corps (was European Voluntary Service) or school exchange programmes;
training trainers about utopia and classism.
I am connected to Berlin and Wrocław in Poland. I have a wife and two children, an allotment, listen to metal, watch football, write occasionally about beer, and sing.
“Utopian intentions guide all movements towards freedom”
— Ernst Bloch (slightly paraphrased)