Rehana, M. ED, has a passion for transformative learning, systems change and building capacity for generative dialogue across difference. She has over 15 years of experience in facilitating participatory, arts-based and equity-centered change, and is always learning & unlearning! Rehana is deeply serious and deeply playful at once, believing in the need for thoughtful strategies that center creativity, play, embodiment and the imagination to open up fields of transformation and jump into the practice both personally and collectively. She practices Art of Hosting, Theatre of the Oppressed and InterPlay, and holds a Masters in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. She served as National Facilitator for Righting Relations, a heart-centred, national network of adult educators, community organizers and Indigenous Peoples of the world working for radical social change through decolonization and popular education.

A Note from Nadia

If you’re interested in collaborative leadership, this is a very special series. I have interviewed all of the Bloom Consultancy (except myself haha). I’m excited to share these with you for a few reasons: 1) Bloom’s method is flexible, responsive and emergent. The courage and presence required to facilitate like this is something very special. 2) The collaborative team work in a hierarchical for-profit organization is also quite rare and 3) The practice of living the work internally so that is ripples out to the clients is so authentic and disciplined, I’m absolutely thrilled to be part of this team and wanted to share it with all of you!

Rehana Tejpar is a dear friend, and the co-founder and leader of Bloom. Her way of working comes from a deeply spiritual and community-minded approach not only to work, but to her whole life. Her personal practices are rigorous and constantly deepening. She carries her big community and family responsibilities with a dancer’s grace and a childlike sweetness, but also with the edge and sharpness of a visionary change-maker (and she’s trained as a clown, so there’s often a surreal edge lurking beneath!). Rehana has made my life easier and lighter in so many ways, I’m endlessly grateful for her example and her friendship.