I hope you’ve been well or as my aunt says these days “mostly well.” It’s been a lot, huh? If you’re like me, you may have found new meaning and purpose in your work and life as priorities have shifted. I’d love to hear what’s changed for you, where your focus is, what’s calling to you and if I can support you in any way with my group or individual facilitation or simply my best wishes.
And I’d love to tell you what I’ve been up to.
“We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide
In the summer of 2021, I became a sailing captain, not fulltime—yet, but I followed my love of the ocean and lifelong soulmate relationship with water and got a bunch of sailing certificates. Now I’m an instructor and sail often on the large lake that’s 30 minutes north of me and I get down to the ocean when I can. And what I know about captaining a boat is directly related to the work I do when you or your organization/team/group needs to go from where you are now to where you want to be.
Because when you are grappling with something that needs deeper exploration, when you are headed somewhere that you’ve never been before and you are not quite sure how to get there, you need a WAYFINDER (it’s me!) with skills of navigation which include an ability to discern where you currently are, intuitively assess the conditions you are in, and design a journey to bring you into to the more brilliant future you are creating.
When you may need wayfinding
Clients often come to me with open ended questions like this:
“We are in conversations around how to engage a broader group of stakeholders in this effort, with a very tentative plan laid out that has gaps in facilitation and forward-path. After some reflection and external benchmarking, it is my position that you could be a good match to help us wrangle a big, hairy vision and many unknowns. Hopefully this short paragraph intrigues you?”
My answer is always YES.
I am intrigued because I love to explore this place of the unknown, where it may seem like we’re in deep, murky water initially but then with the right tools and instincts of navigation, like how seafaring captains use a compass, chart, the stars, and their own experience & wisdom, we find the way forward together. And it’s beautiful.
This is less about the magic-marker map-making which I’m more known for that is still part of the process, and more about me bringing two decades worth of creative tools and processes to our engagement as I design and guide an experiential journey of transformation which leads to actionable strategies along with a deeper connection to WHAT you’re doing and WHY. You leave rooted in your own wisdom with clarity of direction forward and inspiration to make what you want REAL in the world.
I’m creating a new website (the next newsletter will hopefully be from there) to slightly shift the focus of my work toward my facilitation and guidance of the whole journey, from the discovery call to the engagement itself which can be any of these:
- multi-stakeholder collaboration
- visioning and strategic planning
- conference design and facilitation
- retreats and offsites for groups or one-on-one
- team development
- quarterly assessments
- bespoke integrated learning experiences
- leadership coaching and development
- and anything else we can dream up
Like the 8-month long process I guided the state of Georgia’s DHS Senior Hunger program through that included stakeholder interviews, listening sessions across the state and a final meeting of key stakeholders to prioritize the goals for the strategic plan.
Let’s discover what you need together
I’d love to have a conversation if you need a course correction, essentially an expertly guided exploration of your current situation and what’s possible, so that you can emerge with an empowered, cohesive and meaningful way forward. If this is you, let’s have a discovery call.
I’m also open for one-on-one emergence sessions if you’re ready to illuminate and initiate your idea/dream so that you can make it real in the world because your gifts are needed.
One last thing I’ve been up to is that I became a certified teacher of my long-loved 5Rhythms dance/movement practice and now teach classes in Atlanta and workshops in the Southeast and beyond which some of my clients have joined me at. Anytime I do a client engagement I can bring body-based explorations so that you can harvest unexpected insights, feel how a challenging situation can shift easily into resolution and emerge possibilities that you wouldn’t have discovered otherwise. It never fails to be illuminating.
I’d love to hear from you so reply back and let me know how you’re doing and what you’ve been up to, and keep me in mind if you need someone to help you grapple with something you can’t untangle by yourself. Until soon,
With love…
