A primer on our foundational offering: Belonging-Based Facilitation. If you’re curious about what it is, where it comes from and how it differs from other typical modes of facilitation, read on.

A friend recently asked how I prepare for facilitation or healing work that is likely to be especially taxing, I responded that I prepare by being: grounded, bounded, clear and tuned.

That’s not an image of me dodging questions, this is me giving a presentation to a group of BASW students at the University of Washington. In it I share some basic frameworks for understanding structural oppression. Before working with an individual or organization, I often ask for folks to view this video so we can all be on the same page and devote our time to dialoguing on the specific ways that oppression is manifesting rather than whether it is or not.