Facilitating transformative group process and spaces for healing
GRIEF WORK
Workshops, retreats and ritual to process our grief and participate in individual and collective healing
MEDIATION & FACILITATION
Transforming conflict & cultivating collaboration
CONSULTING
Organizational development and strategic planning with a holistic lens
This website is a landing page for my group process offerings, which are offered in the spirit of building a more just, liberatory and livable world. I firmly believe our best hope for a livable future rests in our ability to cultivate strong, resilient relationships, communities and social movements. Tending the Web is a phrase I’ve been using to touch on the interconnected nature of change work and collective healing.
Healing happens socially, which is another way of saying we’re all connected. Our own individual journeys toward healing are inextricably linked with our ability to build healthy organizations, connected communities and powerful movements for social change. To bring about systemic change, we must heal our connection with the web of life — with ourselves, each other and the Earth. We must decolonize our minds and spirits, and dismantle white supremacy and other systems of oppression. The micro is the macro; change is iterative; the process is also the product. As Fannie Lou Hamer so artfully articulated, nobody’s free until everybody’s free.
Over the last few decades, I’ve built up a toolbox of skills in service of collective liberation: facilitation, community organizing, strategic planning, conflict mediation, community herbalism, and grief work.
Why grief work, you may be asking? Living in this time of deep crisis and deep loss, it’s clear that our disconnection and our collective unprocessed grief are holding us back from building more impactful organizations and social movements, and (on an individual level) from living more joyful lives. For the majority of human history, grief has been something that’s honored and practiced in community, not pushed to the margins and pathologized as an unfortunate affliction to get through as quickly as possible. Grief is an expression of love, and it deserves a seat at the table. Dominant culture’s obsession with productivity, individualism and independence has taken a toll - and it’s time to find our way back to each other to honor the full spectrum of human experience and re-weave a world where we all belong.
