Are you ready to move from frustration to innovation and change?

By working with us, you will build the conflict resolution and communication skills to navigate change and work better, together. We offer packages tailored to meet your unique context, needs, and goals. Our approach as your thought partner is you have the answers, we help you find them. We facilitate, mediate, lead workshops, coach and advise - and incorporate evaluation throughout the process. We promise to show up, be vulnerable, and aim to have fun along the way - we'll be a great fit if you do too. 
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Peacebuilding team in Bogotá, Colombia
AREAS OF FOCUS
  • Conflict Resolution and Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Equity, Restorative Justice, and Peacebuilding
  • Community Safety and Violence Prevention
  • Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
  • Organizational Development & Change Management
  • Public Health, Mental Health, and Education
  • Community and Business Development​
  • Youth Leadership and Community Engagement
Michelle's support was integral in navigating the complexities of a team that has grown exponentially in a short amount of time. 
​- Borja Paladini Adell, Kroc Institute Barometer Project Director, Colombia 
SOME ORGANIZATIONS WE'VE WORKED WITH INCLUDE:
LEARN THROUGH EXPERIENCE
​As your thought-partner, we facilitate and provide support through the important, complex, and challenging work you are doing. You will build the skills, practice tools, receive feedback and learn strategies to clarify problems and identify solutions. This can look like coaching, advising, and/or training. Training and curricula are customized to your organization's unique needs and context. 

Communication is key. We provide dialogue facilitation and related conflict resolution approaches to support you to learn and apply communication and conflict resolution techniques to facilitate dialogue sessions, meetings, and teambuilding experiences that promote consensus building, process and strategy design, and community engagement. 

Data is about people and their experiences, and understanding this can help you learn and make informed, strategic decisions. We assess, analyze and report out on processes that use data to improve - not just prove what works. Our applied research approach is driven by Data Justice and draws from Black and Intersectional Feminism, and Decolonizing Methodologies. We prioritize utilizing Action Research methods. Check out some samples below, or visit the PORTFOLIO page for additional details!​
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Michelle is a terrific listener and strong facilitator, and is familiar with a wide array of strategies and frameworks that help our team members to get un-stuck. She's a compassionate coach with a great sense of the realities of work.
​- Corey Newhouse, Founder at Public Profit
APPROACH & VALUES
  • Equity, Justice, and Healing. We believe change is possible and that conflict can be generative.
  • We prioritize relationships and focus on connection & belonging. We de-center whiteness, make the invisible visible and visceral, ditch binaries, acknowledge power structures, and commit to ongoing learning and critical reflection.
  • Drawing from lived experience and professional development, we are trauma-aware and trauma-informed, prioritize mental wellness, and embrace emotion. We use public health approaches to support change processes.
  • We acknowledge the process is an outcome, that change can take time, and will engage applied learning techniques to have some fun along the way!
  • ​We ask questions and trust you (or the community you are working with) have the answers - we help you find them!​​
  • ​We offer all services in English and Spanish.
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