Author's picture from a family trip to Costa Rica Each of us is a seed that needs love and care to grow and become our potentiality. Before we are executives, founders, or organizers, we are elements of nature. We are bodies. Elemental belonging is our ability to return to, find comfort in, and care for our actual bodies and the material stuff we carry alongside and abide in during our lives. It is our remembering and embodying that human beings are not apart from nature

Throughout my career I have had a fascination with the relationships between people in organizations. Not the kind that you might get in trouble for with HR. Rather, I’ve been curious about how individuals and teams work together (or don’t) to meet goals and make change. Most of my work and figuring out of this has been in the nonprofit sector. For nearly fifteen years I’ve prioritized relationality - aka the association of people (for the co-op heads reading this!)- in m

Organizational survival cannot rely on the personal privilege and marginalized statuses of their leaders and staff. Systemic Durability is the process of mapping your organization's true human capacity and aligning it with your values, principles, and strategic goals. If your mission relies on your staff over-functioning, you do not have a sustainable mission—you have an extractive one. The Shadow Budget is the invisible, uncompensated tax of emotional labor, conflict media