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  • Free Faire: A Facilitated Community Experience

    Free Faire: A Facilitated Community Experience Earlier this month, my neighborhood held its 5th Annual Free Faire. What is a Free Faire? The Free Faire is a magical few hours when everyone in my neighborhood puts along the curb all that stuff they’d like to get rid of — random household items, cool junk, extra indoor… Read more

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    A Little Retreat Altar: A Grounding Activity

    At a recent Leadership Team retreat that I facilitated, I opened our time together by inviting us to collectively create a little altar to bring the energy, metaphors and inspirations into our work together. Altars are used in many cultural and spiritual traditions Read more

  • Two Deep Breaths: A Transformational & Accessible Transition Tool

    Two Deep Breaths: A Transformational & Accessible Transition Tool When people ask me how I’m doing these days, my response is typically “Life is Life-ing.” That’s to say: Life is BUSY. Work is BUSY. Family is BUSY. Home is BUSY. The world around us is BUSY, and constantly moving, and, somehow, seems to be moving… Read more

  • The Shapes of Our Planning Processes

    The Shapes of Our Planning Processes While in college, I had a wise mentor offer her approach to planning any collaborative project. She called it ”The Sideways Diamond.” In “The Sideways Diamond”, you begin on the far left with a singular point of inquiry, or as I like to call it “The Starting Nugget”. Then,… Read more

  • Stewarding a Giving Relationship: A Spectrum of Possibility

    This is a 3-part series on stewarding a giving relationship between donors and cultural organizers. This blog series is co-created by myself and the brilliant cultural organizer Monét Noelle Marshall. Read more

  • Facilitate Everything: Halloween Edition!

    Let me tell you the story of how I used facilitation to bring Halloween back to my neighborhood…. Read more

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