MY CORE VALUES
The values that I uphold in my business are: creativity, integration, authenticity, and justice, through a liberatory, trauma-informed, intersectional feminist lens that is ever-evolving to make room for what I learn.
INTEGRATION: The ability to take information and lessons from various sources and put it together to create analyses, lenses, methodologies, and frameworks. Knowing that wisdom does not come just from objectivity, the written word, intellect, or other humans, but also from intuition, esoteric practices, and the natural world. Maintaining a sense of humility and curiosity, with a willingness to be wrong or fail as a means of learning.
CREATIVITY: The ability to hold and execute a vision, build a new paradigm, be nimble and innovative with what is, in order to create what could be. Being resourceful, scrappy, and (re)generative. Flexible and open to change and evolution, adept at identifying needs and constructing responses to them. Creativity comes through in self-expression, thought leadership, and diversity in services.
AUTHENTICITY: The impossibility of being anyone other than who I am, while also being clear that different roles will require different parts of me to be present. Directness and genuineness as a means of building relationships and leading, rather than leveraging likeability or bullshitting for power and personal gain. An ability to tolerate not always being liked, in the interest of moving the work forward. An inherent trust that others know what is best for them, and my job is to help get them there.
JUSTICE: Always holding the bigger picture of the work, which is to contribute to the righting of wrongs, encouraging voice and visibility for those who are historically erased or silenced, and operating from boldness, passion, endurance, and practicality. A belief that each person has gifts to offer and contributions to make, in whatever way they can. Creating practices that are reflexive and responsive to new information, and that center humanity, imperfection, and repair.
ONE MORE THING BEFORE YOU GO:
This is a feminist business run by a feminist founder.
As a white, cis woman, I am continuously confronting my various privileges and how they move me through the world, and I require that my clients be somewhere in this process as well. It is not possible to do the work we need to do without acknowledging the many insidious systems of oppression that allow injustice to thrive. While the majority of my my clients may well be white cis women like me, it’s imperative that we engage in the clumsy, imperfect process of betraying those privileges throughout our work together.
My clients are those that are open to, and relatively fluent in naming, examining and challenging the oppressive systems that dominate our current culture of care, namely, but not limited to, the patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism, and in working towards liberation and justice for all.
