WHAT WE DO
BRAVE Leaders, Organizations, and Collectives
We deepen Belonging, strengthen Resilience, expand Agility, clarify Vision, and encourage Empathy for individuals, teams, and collaborations, so that you can do what you do for a better world.
Our work integrates facilitation, training, coaching, and consulting to catalyze the transformational outcomes you are after.
Each engagement is intentionally designed to meet you where you are, creating space for honest conversation, meaningful reflection, and aligned action.
We explicitly incorporate a liberatory lens and employ conflict and somatic practices; one from many requires a high level of comfort with divergence, disagreement, and dissent, as well as leaning on the fractal wisdom of our earthly bodies.
THE ROOTS WE GROW FROM
The human and beyond-human kin, whose gifts guide our work
The Waters
We are water, through and through. And the waters are one big cycle. The oceans are one ocean. The rivers and aquifers are a part of one filtration system. The tides outside and the waters inside our bodies affect the movement of the world.
The Oxygen Makers
The trees generously gift us the air we need as fuel. Our plant kin also gives us food, shelter, medicine, clothing, dyes, art supplies, and more. Their wellness and ours are one and the same.
The Walkers, Flyers, and More
Birdsong can settle or alarm the animals in a forest or neighborhood. The underground hyphae freeways made the original decentralized resource exchange network. All forms of life on this planet are our older siblings and our teachers.
Yuri Kochiyama
"Transform yourself first… Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders."
Vandana Shiva
"Economic poverty is only one form of poverty. Cultural poverty, social poverty, ethical poverty, ecological poverty, spiritual poverty are other forms of poverty more prevalent in the so called rich North than in the so called poor South. And those other poverties cannot be overcome by dollars. They need compassion and justice, caring and sharing. Ending poverty requires knowing how poverty is created."
Brené Brown
"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."
Angela Davis
"If you take democracy seriously, then you have to take education seriously as well, because at its best, education allows for the practice of democracy. The classroom should be a space where students learn how to practice radical democracy."
Marshall Rosenberg
"Don’t mix up that which is habitual with that which is natural."
Grace Lee Boggs
"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."
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Healers, Elders, and Firekeepers
Many healers of mind, body, and spirit guide the work in ways seen and unseen. The firekeepers who keep the stone relatives hot, the medicine pourers, the sacred song keepers, and the prayers provide invisible infrastructure for continued alignment.
Teachers
Thay (Thich Nhat Hanh) showed me how answers to life's most complex questions can be answered with simple words and a smile. Ms. Ramos Beban, who started a philosophy class at a high school with immigrant kids, asked complex questions to young people. They are the human mycelium who facilitate real education.
Edgewalking Scholars and Movement Builders
bell hooks, Joseph Gazing Wolf, Inez Talamantez, Diane Fujino, Gloria Anzaldúa, Gregory Cajete, Jessica Hernandez, Shawn Ginwright, Gayatri Spivak, and many more scholar-activists made the trails and showed us the way
FRAMEWORKS
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.
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.
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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.
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 CONVERSATION®
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.
SERVICES
We partner with leaders, teams, and collectives to analyze, design, and implement organizational culture solutions that enhance your ability to work toward transformational outcomes.
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