I provide dynamic and participatory training and facilitation services that can be custom-designed and delivered virtually or in-person. Using an Appreciative Inquiry approach, I draw upon the strengths, diversity and wisdom of a group to analyze issues, build skills and generate solutions to the challenges they face.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND BELONGING
- Intersectionality
- Implicit bias
- Microagressions
- White fragility
- Power
- Privilege
- Belonging
- Cultural humility
- Allyship skills
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
- Integrity
- Embodiment
- Advocacy
- Communication
- Decision-making
- Active listening
- Feedback
- Empathy
- Purpose
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Strategic planning
- Staff retreats
- Mission
- Vision
- Core values
- Innovation
- Team-building
- Workplace culture
- Management skills
RESILIENCE
- Brain science
- Nervous system regulation
- Somatic practice
- Orienting
- Positive psychology
- Growth mindset
- Creative expression
- Relational bonding
- Mutual aid
POPULAR EDUCATION
- Collective liberation
- Praxis
- Generative dialogue
- Community wisdom
- Experiential learning
- Action planning
- Methodology
- Workshop design
- Facilitation skills
ANCESTRAL LEGACIES
- Ritual
- Writing
- Theater
- Voice
- Time in nature
- Embodied practice
- Ancestral healing
- Wisdom traditions
- Legacy work
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED
- Image Theatre
- Forum Theatre
- Theatre games
- Analyze power
- Generate dialogue
- Practice liberation
ARTS ACTIVISM
- Community theater
- Signs and banners
- Dance
- Poetry
- Giant puppetry
- Giant storybooks
THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS
- Gratitude
- Honor our pain
- See with new eyes
- Identify liberatory actions
- Systems theory
- Deep ecology
Popular education values and respects people as their own experts and challenges the notion that the educator or organizer’s role is an expert who works “for” the people.
It is based on the belief that people themselves have sufficient knowledge and that they can work out the solutions to their own problems.“– Paulo Freire
Clients and Partners
- UC Berkeley Public Service Center
- UC Berkeley Division of Student Affairs
- UC Irvine Community Resilience Projects
- Amazon Watch
- Thrive East Bay
- Domestic Violence Law Center
- Spiral Up Women’s Leadership Program and Executive Coaching
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Creative Action Institute
- Somos Mayfair
- Community Well San Francisco
- Partners for Collaborative Change
Cover photo credit: Tergel Pure
Photo credits: Thrive East Bay, Creative Action Institute, UCI Community Resilience