How do you think about your power? How do you tend to feel when you are powerless? What muscle tension do you tend to hold? What do you long for? How do you tend to get what you want? We’ll bring awareness to these questions, learn your strengths, and use them to bring more of what you want into your life and survive difficult times of change.

In Skills for Change we say “Cooperation is asking for 100% of what you want 100% of the time and negotiating to agreement.” Oppressive forces often make it unsafe for us to ask for 100% of what we want. We make up stories for other people that may or may not be accurate. In my mediations and organizational facilitation, we first identify how we want to be cooperating and then clear stories that are in the way and make new agreements.

I also run Cooperative Learning Groups, for folks dedicated to relating with each other or learning about a shared way of being.

I regularly facilitate cooperative workshops on somatic embodiment of softness in hard times. I also teach cooperative communication and self-bodywork courses. Join my Email List or follow me on Instagram to make sure you get these invites!

In this world full of multinational corporations and union-busting governmental agencies, it can often liberate us from material oppressive forces to start our own business where no one gets to tell us how much we make and when we have to show up. I’ve been coaching business owners for nearly a decade on how to achieve their business and life design goals. Whether you’re an independent artist, hairstylist, coach, or massage therapist, I can help you get what you want from your venture.

While hierarchy in our culture has historically been extremely harmful and oppressive, there have also existed many examples of cooperative hierarchies that functioned well to care and support for people. Drawing from my decade of business consulting and coaching as well as radical Skills for Change tools around Cooperation, I work with organizational clients to: design positions along with mechanisms to allow for dissent, identify power problems and find ways to resolve them, and to design decision making processes (among other things).

I’ll soon have a Patreon where you can support me in writing a monthly essay to teach foundational Skills for Change concepts and practices for making our lives more like we want them to be, while fighting oppressive forces and organizing for collective liberation.