Energy can be simply defined as the ability to do work. Social change efforts often get stuck when our visions outsize our organizing capacity. It is not for a lack of commitment or drive that usually hinders our work, but a need for facilitative partnership & ease of process that can regenerate our energy!

I’m here to energize projects and teams that are looking for a burst of short-term support.

• facilitation for team retreats, large-scale convenings, and workshops
• strategic planning, organizational development
• fundraising & finance strategy
• designing collaboratives & initiatives
• narrative & communications campaign development

• bringing people together to “advance” collective action with liberatory purpose
• planning is for the future, “scenarios” account for present & evolving conditions
• organizations are transitory sets of systems & structures, “powerful places of work” centers people in relationship to the resources, labor, and change-practices we need for thriving and equitable workplaces
• collaboratives and initiatives are often designed with the intent to invite others to join us… what if we designed our work so “we are the ones being invited” instead?

• Just Transition Framework
• Story-based Strategy 
• Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing 

• Interaction Institute for Social Change's Facilitative Leadership
• Rockwood Leadership Institute's Art of Leadership
• Decolonizing Race Project's Taking Root AANHPI Cohort

Design Principles

1. Lightness, joy, and creative play are critical (not just aspirational) to design for.
2. So is careful preparation and thoughtful execution.

I'm most activated when co-creating with others as we balance these two principles above.