Our Story

The Trailblazery was originally created by Kathy Scott, Clare Mulvany and Ciara Cavanagh as a response to a need for deeper human connection and belonging in our society. Our first live event took place at The Office of Non-Compliance which was part of Dublin Contemporary (2011). We wanted to build a trailblazing community so we created a platform to stir things up. We accepted the call to adventure and the story unfolded.

The initial events hosted by The Trailblazery were the start of a nationwide conversation that culminated with We Need to Talk About Ireland – a live event televised on St. Patricks Day and broadcast around the world via RTÉ and The Washington Post.

Since 2014, Kathy Scott has led The Trailblazery mission and collaborated with an inspirational team of cultural creatives in Ireland and beyond. The next chapter of The Trailblazery story evolved when she sensed that our audiences wanted to participate in expressing and sharing their own stories so we expanded our repertoire to validate this and in 2016, Census of The Heart was born. We conducted our own human research into the emotional state of the nation 100 years after the Easter Rising and built a unique repository of knowledge that holds the intimate hopes, regrets, fears and dreams of over 12,000 people on the island of Ireland.

In 2018 in response to #MeToo and #Repeal we founded Moon Medicine - a circle that invites women to rise and lift each other up along the way. In 2019 we designed Moon Medicine Academy an online training programme for women ready to blaze trails, which has expanded our Irish women’s circle to include women from all over the world. In 2019 in the light of the Climate Crisis and Extinction Rebellion we curated two sold out immersive Solstice Learning Experiences in the heart of the Dublin Mountains. In 2020 in response to the crucible moment of lockdown we launched HedgeSchool - a virtual home school rooted in Ireland that invites people around the world on a collective learning experience to find our shared humanity and resource our collective possibility as global citizens.

The current chapter of our story involves creating learning experiences on and offline for trailblazers of the future. We have worked with thousands of torch bearers across the cultural spectrum and have gleaned many valuable learning’s, insights and aha moments along the way. So, we offer a range of creative mentorship services to empower people to blaze trails by nudging humanity forward and calling in a brave new world.