Belonging
Resilience
Agility
Vision
Empathy
You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great…
- Maya Angelou
Be a more aligned, trusted, and adaptive leader capable of leading transformation.
“If we want people to fully show up, to bring their whole selves including their unarmored, whole hearts—so that we can innovate, solve problems, and serve people—we have to be vigilant about creating a culture in which people feel safe, seen, heard, and respected.”
-Brené Brown
Design and habitualize equity. Restore trust. Aspire. Co-create. Journey and arrive together.
Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass...We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other.
- Grace Lee Boggs
Build regenerative rituals. Practice deep democracy. Decolonize. Liberate. Heal.
Colonial Toxicology
Toxicologists use various physical sciences to study the toxic effects something has on life forms and planetary systems. Colonial toxicology employs the physical and social sciences, as well as non-Western sources of inquiry and data to frame, analyze, predict, prevent, and remedy the toxic effects of historical colonization and colonizer mental models. Micro-colonialisms, similar to microaggressions, are "subtle, stunning" experiences that are pervasive, yet often invisibilized, minimized, or dismissed.
Afro-Indigenous and Social Permaculture
Permaculture is a design praxis for creating regenerative, reciprocal, long-view human settlements based on nature's patterns. It is a collection of lenses, principles, and practices from various Indigenous cultures, distilled, codified, and popularized by two white Australian men. Rerooting permaculture in Afro-indigeneity demonstrates the decolonizing mindset of learning from and belonging to the land instead of owning and subjugating the land. Social permaculture takes the insights of permaculture and applies it to group dynamics and organization design.
Dare to Lead™
Dr. Brené Brown is a researcher and the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers. The most significant finding from her latest research is that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, measurable, and observable. Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators focus on developing these courage-building skills through workshops, trainings and coaching to help individuals, teams and organizations move from armored leadership to daring leadership.
Conflict Transformation
A structured framework for engaging conflict to make explicit, then attempt to reshape, the social structures and dynamics behind the conflict, employing analytical tools borrowed from systems thinking, such as root cause analysis, identity and conflict, intervention design, post-conflict peace building, mediation, negotiation, dialogue, policy advocacy, and social action
Neuroscience of Conversations ®
Raise oxytocin and lower cortisol to see higher levels of trust, partnering, and co-creating. Conversations shape every aspect of our lives yet, research shows that 9 out of 10 conversations miss the mark. Conversational Intelligence® enables deeper connections to surface quickly with others.
Restorative Practices
A bricolage of cultural technologies from various Indigenous communities, applied by justice workers to improve and repair relationships. The purpose is to build healthy communities, increase social resilience, decrease crime and antisocial behavior, repair harm, and restore relationships.