Consulting

Principles of Community Work

Inspired by adrienne maree brown, bell hooks, Parker Palmer, Thich Nhat Hanh, PRATEC and others, I originally crafted these principles to undergird the work at CASA but they extend into all I do, and especially in how I guide others in my consulting work:

Disrupting & Affirming: We aim to disrupt injustice and oppression while affirming equity, wellbeing, peace, joy, security, and connection within ourselves and within our communities.

Interconnection: Both the diminishing and healing of our humanity is unlocked in a “network of mutuality” (Martin Luther King, Jr.) We see that our liberations are bound together.

Imagination & Creativity: We are imagining the just world we want and creatively cultivating it together through community-based research, education, organizing, and healing justice. 

Place-Based: We respect and affirm local knowledge, culture, assets, and power.

Relational: We create and sustain long-term, meaningful community partnerships that follow the lead of those most directly impacted by injustice in the community.

Personal & Political: We prioritize collaborations that are critically reflexive and generate personal and systemic transformation. 

My consulting has spawned different constituents, but below include a few of the most longstanding consulting partnerships I have been a part of.

Yoga and Social Justice

• Online and in-person trainings, organizational consulting and guest speaking with Off the Mat! Into the World

Anti-bias Education

• Train the trainer, teacher and student anti-bias education training
• Workshops for administrators, certified and classified staff, parents, youth and community members with A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute

Early Childhood Anti-Bias Education Consulting

• Anti-bias-bias education training workshops for parents and teachers
• Consultant with Sierra Madre Elementary and Sierra Madre Community Nursery School

Community Engagement in Higher Education

• Strategic Planning and Organizational consulting with colleges, universities, and foundations (i.e., CSU Channel Islands, University of Minnesota, Occidental College, Marymount California University, Bringing Theory to Practice, Bridgewater State University, Northwest Five Consortium, etc)