Collective Liberation Consulting

How is Consulting Different from Coaching?

Unlike coaching, which strictly supports ​clients to uncover their own innate knowing, ​consulting may include practices such as ​training, recommending courses of action, ​developing resources and assets on behalf of ​clients, facilitating group conversations, and ​other forms of support that are more akin to ​advice-giving. If you represent an ​organization interested in hiring me as a ​consultant and you think members of your ​organization could benefit from coaching, I ​am happy to put together contract scopes ​that include elements of both coaching and ​consulting.

What is Collective Liberation Consulting?

The traditional nonprofit charity model, in which institutions ​amass resources to distribute out to “less-fortunate” ​community members, serves to uphold systems of oppression, ​domination, and control. And yet, the charity model has been ​so central to the development of most public and nonprofit ​agencies that leaders within those organizations often struggle ​to move away from it, though many genuinely want to. I ​specialize in working with organizations that want to ​transition away from traditional institutionalized power and ​charity models and toward collective power with those who ​they have historically considered clients. Our collective ​liberation relies on the realization that 99% of the U.S. ​population has more in common with one another than with ​the other 1%. In order to advance collective liberation, we ​must build cross-class solidarity and harness our collective ​power to create a world where all have equal opportunity for ​peace, joy, and wellbeing.

I long to work with your organization if:

  • You see the value in moving away from a charity model and toward a community organizing/community power building ​model, but you need some help figuring out how to get there

  • You understand that your organization’s employees must be able to experience healing, joy, liberation, and rest in order for ​them to be their best, but you struggle to find ways to build healing practices of community care into your wor

  • You want to explore governance and decision-making models that provide alternatives to traditional pyramidic and ​minority-rule model

  • Your employees, board members, and other leaders are exclusively or almost exclusively white and you want to figure out ​how to share resources, power, and leadership with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

  • You want to explore ways to support systems change that is led or driven by those you have traditionally considered clients

  • You see a widespread culture of burnout, compassion fatigue, and emotional divestment among your staff and you want to ​make a plan to bring your staff into deeper alignment and connection with their work

  • You sense that your work is not lining up with the core values of your staff and you want to find the synergies between the ​needs of your staff and the needs of the communities you serve

My Consulting Skills and Areas of Expertise

  • Coalition building

  • Community engagement, community organizing, and ​community leadership development

  • Emergent strategy

  • Fat liberation

  • Food systems, food justice, and food policy networks

  • Grant writing

  • Meeting facilitation

  • Participatory evaluation and budgeting

  • Politicized healing frameworks

  • Project planning and management

  • Strategic planning

  • Upstream policy, systems, and environmental health ​solutions

  • White organizational culture and white antiracist identity ​development

Skills and Expertise of my ​Collaborative Partners

  • Bringing creativity and play to the ​changemaking process

  • Conflict transformation and mediation

  • Executive leadership development

  • Generative/politicized somatics

  • Nonprofit organizational development

  • Ombudsing

  • Racial justice assessment and planning

  • Size-inclusive nutrition education

  • Sociocracy/dynamic governance

  • Storytelling for personal and collective ​transformation

Interested in my consulting services?