My uncle always used to say “we fall backwards into our lives” and I have found that to be true for me–my path to this moment has not been linear and certainly has not been as I envisioned when I was graduating from high school, college, or even my masters program. I come to this work partly due to my own experiences of power-based harm (both experiencing and causing), my longing for and commitment to co-creating a world where power-based violence is less prevalent, and a deep curiosity and wonder about the human experience.
All my Culture Change Project work is informed by trauma-informed principles, transformative justice, liberation theology and health practices, somatics, and the thought and activist leadership provided by queer and BIPOC communities, specifically women of color for generations. I believe that it is impossible to do this work meaningfully without incorporating an explicitly anti-racist, anti-imperialist system analysis, and I strive to center the questions of “who benefits from this” and “who is most likely to be harmed by this” throughout my work.
I approach this rooted in the following lineages:
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Liberation Theology, Education, and Health
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Transformative Justice
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Feminist Therapy
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Somatic Practice
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Trauma-Informed Practice
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Racial Justice Activism
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System Analysis
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Disability Rights Activism​
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It is my hope and belief that this work is in service to co-creating a world that is just and fosters wellbeing for all its inhabitants. In other words, it is my deep hope that this work is one of many antidotes to “imperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy” (bell hooks, The Will to Change).
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Individual Counseling is offered to those who have been impacted by systems and/or dynamics of harm, violence, and oppression.
Leadership Coaching focuses on identifying and understanding dynamics and systems of power and oppression, as well as addressing and miitigating those dynamics.
Organization Consultation delves into culture change, in it factors contributing to harmful and oppressive dynamics within the organization are surfaced, identify strategies for addressing and changing those factors, and nurture systems of mutual care.