This site is a
home base
for my work &
discovery space
for shared work
Current Projects & Offerings
The collaborative work I contribute to is ever-evolving.
As such, it shape shifts over time, as do I.
As do we.
In this time of incredible uncertainty and change,
the work that has my attention
opens pathways
for
co-creation
evolutionary leadership
collective healing & growth
awareness-based systems change
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Listening
+
Poetry
Facilitation
+
Leadership
Development
Visual
Sense-making
We're all just walking
each other home
Ram Das
Awareness-Based Systems Change,
leadership evolution, & facilitation
How do we cultivate social systems that create an architecture of inter-being and connection rather than independence and separation?
How do we uncover and work with our leadership blindspots, so that we can live into our fullest potential, both individually and collectively?
How do we bring wise action into being, in service of all life?
These are a few of the questions journeying with me and my collaborators these days.
They point toward the kind of initiatives we're most passionate about.
Living these questions is deep work. It's humbling work.
In practice, it looks like
> Holding space for grieving, healing, and co-creative emergence.
> Staying with the discomfort of the unknown, and learning how to sense and respond
rather than predict and control.
> Opening and integrating mind, heart and will.
> Journeying with practices that connect us to the living world and serve as a portal to the sacred.
> Not just working to create change, but being willing to be changed in and through the work.
Our work in this space draws on a variety of theory and practice fields, including organizational development, systems thinking, social justice movements, collective trauma healing, neurobiology, somatics and embodiment work, visual thinking, and the arts.
Art of Hosting and Harvesting
The Art of Hosting DC is an emerging community of practitioners in the greater D.C. area (connected to the global AoH Community), who are infusing generative practices everywhere to restore connection with our truest selves, each other, and the natural world.
The Art of Hosting and Harvesting is:
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a self-organizing global community of practice and practitioners
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a worldview that sees all things as part of a living system
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an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and co-creation to address complex challenges
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a way of being and living that invites us into presence, relationship, depth, mystery, and abundance
Visual Sense-making &
graphic harvesting
Harvesting is the practice of making meaning and learning visible in creative and useful ways. Visual sense-making and harvesting uses imagery to help us bring invisible and less tangible elements into our field of awareness. This can helps us feel, sense, and perceive more of what is. It can help us ask deeper questions, notice relationships between parts of the whole, widen our field of connection and curiosity, and illuminate the energy and life within a system or conversation.
the good listening project
Good listening contributes to a culture of communal care and collective healing.
It helps us remember
we are all connected--
to each other, and to life itself.
The Good Listening Project (TGLP) is a DC-based nonprofit organization. We are a small but mighty team working nationally, as well as in Canada. At TGLP, we help build cultures of good listening in healthcare systems to support healing and resilience. We do this by partnering with organizations to offer listener poet services, and well as workshops and other resources. As listener poets, we hold space for people to share about anything they'd like to have a poem about. We listen to the words shared, and to the space and feelings in between, with our whole selves. We don't just listen, we bear witness. Then we write each person a poem + origin story to accompany their poem. We publish these poems + origin stories in collections, offering a unique way for organizations to see and sense their own communities. We provide these services both in-person and online.
As a new organization, we're working to establish a solid foundation from which we can expand our impact. To that end, we are committed to operating using a shared leadership model. This is helping us tap into the collective strengths of our team and stakeholders, as well as break conditioned patterns prevalent in the nonprofit sector that lead to burnout and exploitation of people. We are committed to sharing power, building an inclusive culture, decolonizing our practices, and growing an organization that embodies our ethos and commitments to deep listening, healing, and social justice.
My role at TGLP is multi-faceted. I'm a listener poet, workshop facilitator/ presenter, and I am shepherding our process for putting a shared leadership model into practice.