services

My work is collaborative, emergent, and customized for each unique context.

Everything we create together grows from trust in what’s simple, small, and already good.

I’m available for work as an advisor, designer, facilitator, collaborative partner, or some combination of these. Reach out for a conversation about the best fit for you and your context.

Advise

Review | Critique | Find Opportunities | Recommend

I help you see more of what’s present and possible with your product, program, curriculum, framework, process, community, or organization. I support you to notice the whole more clearly and how each small piece contributes to how people engage, learn, connect, and find value with/in your ___. I recommend actionable steps leveraged from opportunities already present within your context, and I suggest ways to embed these authentically into your ongoing structures.

Design

Structure | Align | Generate | Revise | (Re)Imagine

I design learning experiences, communities of practice, and creative processes/products with a lens for depth of engagement (rigor + play), intrinsically motivated curiosity, and authentic belonging. We work together and create inside the limits and specificities of your context, whether you want to (re)create a learning product for children, (re)design a program for families, (re)imagine a learning community for adults, or something else.

Facilitate

I lead workshops, protocols, conversations, and holistic experiences (in person or online). I guide participants to deepen what, why, and how they understand and experience things the way they do, including how they approach their own learning, work, and being. I hold space for groups to engage with any topic (especially what seems most challenging) and I support all participants to show up as whole beings with a range of thoughts and feelings. I trust in what is already present within people and organizations and create space for people to find (and remember) more in themselves.

Example workshop topics:

Small shifts to nurture open-ended play
What is boredom and how do we help students engage with it?
Designing for spaces of slowness (when days feel full and fast)
Supporting students to engage with their feelings as essential material for creative learning
Nurturing children’s intrinsic curiosities through exploration with small things
We teach who we are: noticing and exploring our dispositions as educators
What do you notice?: Looking closely at small moments of educator practice

Collaborate

I partner with you to create something together—an idea, process, product, proposal, event, community, opportunity, or new question to grow into. We work together to decide on the scope and parameters. I can support design, development, documentation and research, facilitation of process, or big-picture guidance. I say yes to collaborative work that’s beyond what I could do myself and feels full of ease, joy, and (de)light.

I’m also available for speaking engagements, as well as site-based consultations, coaching, and educator/school-specific services. Please reach out if you have questions.