my current work.
I co-create partnerships with people to support their leadership.
By leadership I mean leading your life, or leading a program or organization or being a leader in your family and community. We all can benefit from having someone serve as a sounding board, offer a different lens, ask new questions, believe in us when we’re having a hard time believing in ourselves, and set up ways to ensure accountability.
I use coaching tools and believe my coach partners have inner wisdom, lived experience and ancestral/cultural knowing – alongside their skills and training.
I coach with individuals and partnerships: directors, managers, co-directors and leadership teams.
We co-design the engagement, explore values and assumptions and what’s needed to be in alignment. We explore what it means to show up fully as individuals and in partnership – minds, hearts, spirits, bodies – as leaders for their organizations and for themselves.
I also facilitate trainings and retreats, often with colleagues, co-creating transformational experiences that include learning coaching practices for leadership development, relational/emotional intelligence enhancement, team building and methods for increasing effective communication, feedback and conflict navigation.
I’m a co-founder and Core Team Member of WithIn Collaborative. We work with and in communities – and within ourselves – to deconstruct and re-imagine unjust systems that were created for the privileged few. Social change requires systems change and we believe liberation is possible, leadership is a team effort, self-awareness is foundational and our work can be joyful.
Johnny Manzon-Santos and I designed an offering we call Coaching Tools for Managers, Activists and Leaders.
The constants in all my work are:
- Utilize coaching for personal growth and healthy relationships.
- Address racism and systemic oppression.
- Center Black, indigenous and other marginalized communities’ history and experiences to dismantle oppressive systems and build just communities.
- Prioritize transformation over transaction. Liberation requires embracing our full humanity, including mind, body, spirit, emotions, and ancestry.
- Value love, core values, and human connection over productivity.
- Acknowledge play, joy, self-compassion, grieving, and vulnerability as essential. Honoring our humanity is a practice in accepting imperfection.
- Access the 8 C’s of IFS methodology.
- Employ the I/We/It framework: (I) personal history informs (We) collaboration to dismantle (It) systems and co-create justice, equity, love, and liberation.
partnering with me.
If you’re curious about partnering with me through 1:1 coaching, partner coaching or some kind of training/facilitating please contact me.
