Modalities & Areas of Expertise

• Cooperative Culture development (so my co-authored The Cooperative Culture Handbook)
• Consensus training and decision-making system design and problem-solving
• Incorporating equity and justice into your community
• Retreat facilitation and facilitation training
• Starting intentional communities (see my book Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Residential Intentional Community)
• Sustainable systems design (see my book Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption)
• Organizational structure design and improvement
• Navigating community "mid-life crises" when a group has lost focus or experienced mission drift
• Membership systems design
• Participation & labor systems design, including for income sharing groups
• Collaborative leadership (note: sociocracy and leadership were bundled together; I am not a sociocracy trainer or system designer)

Link to books: https://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/building-sustainable-communities-bundle/

Training and Certification

26 years of lived experience in residential intentional comunities, including being part of a co-founder team multiple times.

• CANBRIDGE Consulting, 2-year training in cooperative, integrative facilitation, 2004-05.
• Global Ecovillage Network, certified to lead and teach month-long Ecovillage Design Education programs, 2008.

• New Mexico First, level-one training for facilitating large bipartisan public dialogues, 2005.

• Wyoming ACLU, community organizing and direct action training, 2018.

• Showing Up for Racial Justice, three-day organizing training on racism, disability and class, 2018.

• The Management Center, two-day staff management and workflow training, 2023.

• Third Sector Company, 8 week Interim Executive Director Academy graduate, 2024.

Basic training and community-based practice in Nonviolent Communication, Re-evaluation Co-Counseling, Matrix Leadership, Restorative Circles, anti-racism work and adaptive community leadership.

Intentional Communities "resume": https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhp6B7N97TW1Qe58hQrYp4ujFzi2w19i-WhhC2d7iZg/edit?tab=t.0 

Consultant Types

Consensus facilitation,Group facilitation,Mentoring,Leadership or Sociocracy,Membership & diversity

Per hour fee USD

$65-150/hour

Sliding Fees

yes

City and state/province

Warrenton, OR

Region

Pacific Coast U.S.

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