Hello, I'm Íse.

I help make crowds and events safer. As a practitioner and researcher, I study the human condition, studying how bodies, minds, and social systems interact, and how that impacts safety, wellbeing, and agency. Here I write about crowd safety challenges and use it to explore broader questions about behavioural psychology, societal trends, and personal empowerment.

My work, and passion, has always intersected between events, crowd safety and event transport, and this now has a name - Zone Ex. I'm really proud to have written the first chapter on Zone Ex for the Guide to Health, Safety and Welfare at Outdoor Events and shared about its importance in an article I wrote on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour crowds.

Having quit all social media, I am an advocate for digital minimalism and have written about the impact of our relationship with our devices on our wellbeing and mental health. My studies of the mind led me to share my own experience with how applying these learnings has transformed my life experience and career. This blends with Human Design and how I use this language to understand how we operate correctly and apply that to improve our relationships and work.

I host the Safety Sistas podcast to showcase those who work behind the scenes to keep you safe at events and beyond.

For more see my About page. To stay in touch, you are welcome to subscribe to the website to receive blog posts and my newsletter to your inbox.

Now

Reading Behave by Robert Sapolsky as I prepare 'self care guidance in emergencies' for an event.

Ordered Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain by Antonio Demasio to learn more about avoiding separating the limbic brain and cortex, and parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems as individual entities. They all collaborate.

With many thoughts ruminating, i'm preparing to write more blog posts and get back into Safety Sistas this year.

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Services

Consulting

Strategy development from concept to delivery, from crowd management and Zone Ex to community emergency plans, or focusing on an element, such as transport, ingress or egress.

Teaching

A former Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, I run workshops on crowd safety, crowd management planning training sessions and bespoke training packages for staff at your event or venue.

1:1 Guidance

Using Human Design, personal development tools and twenty years of field experience, I support event professionals to trust their instincts, set boundaries and use their natural talents and self acceptance to find success.

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“…We tend to reach out to Íse when we are looking for a fresh and different perspective. Without fail Íse is able to show a route that nobody in our team has thought of before. Coupled with her excellent precision and reliability Íse is the perfect lead for any project. It is mainly her versatility that makes Íse apply her talents to any kind of project. With the big picture in mind and never forgetting the detailed solution, we can highly recommend working with Íse. She delivers results that we haven’t found anywhere else.”

Marcel Altenburg, Manchester Metropolitan University