Cloacina Collective™
The Cloacina Collective is a body of work devoted to the unseen.
The study of the labour that prevents collapse — in people, systems, and institutions.
Research, advisory, and writing for leaders working inside complexity.
For organisations
For individual leaders
Writing & speaking
The Cloacina Collective is not a conventional community. It is a field of inquiry and practice for leaders who operate inside complexity — and who recognise that what holds systems together is seldom what appears on the surface.
Why The Unseen Matters Now
Every functioning system is sustained by work that is not counted.
Work that absorbs pressure before it becomes crisis.
Work that carries responsibility without formal authority.
Work that maintains continuity while visible leadership changes above it.
This labour is structural, not personal.
Its invisibility is not accidental.
Its cost is cumulative.
The Cloacina Collective is a field of inquiry devoted to recognising, naming, and resourcing the work that allows institutions — and the people within them — to continue.
Unseen Work Framework™
Across sectors and roles, the same patterns recur: forms of unseen labour that stabilise organisations while remaining unrecognised in their formal structures.
The Collective’s work identifies these patterns and traces their impact on leadership, burnout, decision-making, and institutional endurance.
This thinking is applied through advisory partnerships, leadership development, and commissioned writing. Learn more about the framework here:
Where the work is applied
Individual leaders
Thinking partnerships for those carrying complexity across systems.
Organisations
Structural insight into burnout, invisible load, and responsibility without authority.
Writing & speaking
Essays, keynotes, and long-form work on unseen labour and institutional life.
Field notes from the work
These essays form part of an ongoing body of research into maintenance, leadership, and institutional life.
Why Cloacina?
Cloacina is the Roman guardian of the systems that carry away what a city cannot survive without transforming.
In contemporary terms, she is a model for the infrastructure of leadership: the hidden processes that allow complex environments to remain liveable.
The Collective takes its name from this function — the protection of continuity through the management of what is difficult to see and harder to value.
She represents the disciplined tending of what others prefer not to see: the hidden, the complex, the unspoken. Not as waste, but as material for transformation.
Learn more about Cloacina here:
Collective
From the Latin collectivus — that which is gathered together.
Here the Collective is not defined by numbers, but by shared orientation:
people drawn to depth, conscious leadership, shadow integration and purposeful living.
Some are readers.
Some are practitioners.
Some are clients.
The Cloacina Collective is not a conventional community. It is a field of inquiry and practice for leaders who operate inside complexity — and who recognise that what holds systems together is seldom what appears on the surface.
All are engaging with the same question:
What becomes possible when the unseen work is recognised and supported?
Pamela Weatherill
The Founder and Senior Advisor, Dr Pamela Weatherill works with leaders and institutions navigating complexity, invisible responsibility, and structural change.
Her practice integrates executive advisory, organisational insight, and a body of writing on unseen labour and the ethics of maintenance. Learn more here:
Enter the Work
Engage with the Cloacina Collective for advisory, collaborations, and commissions. Learn more:
