🚀 Big News! I’m now a Certified xchange Guide 🎉

I'm an experienced (and damn good) facilitator who's been facilitating meetings and events since the early 2000s with a baby on my hip in La Leche League meetings. But this learning journey with xchange has transformed my work and business in ways that are even surprising to me! If you work with me, just know I'm even more prepared now to support you and your team in connection, transformation and taking meaningful action - and I’m super excited about it! Keep reading to see why I’m so excited!

What Makes a Certified xchange Guide Different?

As a Certified xchange Guide, I am more than just a facilitator—I am a convener, skilled in creating environments that foster collaboration, innovation, and deep connection. I’m certified in The xchange Approach, a proven methodology for navigating complex group dynamics, ensuring every voice is heard, and driving transformative outcomes that align with your goals empowering individuals and groups to achieve their highest potential through carefully crafted, intentional experiences.

Whether you're hosting a workshop, retreat, conference or strategic planning session, I will work with you to design an experience that engages every participant, ensuring that their voices are heard, their challenges are addressed, and the results drive meaningful, lasting change.

Experience the Power of The xchange Approach

Tailored Experiences – Every group is unique. That's why I customize each session to address your specific goals, ensuring a personalized experience that drives impact.

Proven Results – Organizations like Google, Facebook, Heartmath®, and BMW trust xchange because of its ability to spark transformative change and elevate group dynamics.

Lasting Impact – The insights, relationships, and breakthroughs gained from our work together will continue to benefit your group long after the event is over.

Why Hire a Certified xchange Guide?

Custom Solutions: I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Each session I lead is tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of your group or organization.

Demonstrated Expertise: My certification with xchange means I have mastered the art and science of conscious facilitation—a method proven to drive powerful group outcomes.

Transformational Impact: I don’t just facilitate events; I create experiences that spark lasting transformation. Whether it’s team-building, leadership development, or strategy alignment, my sessions lead to results.

Services Offered now enhanced by my xchange Certified Guide training:

• Workshops & Training: I design and facilitate engaging, hands-on learning experiences that drive real change.

• Strategic Planning Sessions: I guide teams through collaborative problem-solving and goal-setting to ensure strategic alignment.

• Team Building Events: I help foster trust, enhance collaboration, and strengthen relationships within your group.

Ready to Transform Your Team or Event?

Let’s create something extraordinary together.

Reach out so we can discuss how I can support your group’s transformation.

2025 Thoughtful Gift Guide

Click the image above or here for a downloadable pdf version of the Thoughtful Gift Guide. Once you download the pdf, click each item for a link to the item’s website.

Click here for a downloadable version of the 2025 Experiences (above) and Donations (below) Gift List. Click each title to visit the website for each one.

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Not too much on the slavery, my guy!

  From the September newsletter….

 The National Museum of African American History and Culture (affectionately called the Blacksonian by myself and others) has been told by the current administration to tone down the slavery talk and add more uplifting stories. Do they have a point?

Well, we (Americans) do have a problem engaging the historical record.

We've always had trouble forming and holding collective memories that embrace the historical complexities we share as a nation. Human brains crave an easy-to-understand storyline, a clear villain and innocent victims. Engaging the realities of individual and collective human interaction, triumph and suffering is very difficult to understand and hold, especially against the backdrop of our Western, North American myths and legends.

But we can do it. We have to bring our full humanity to the process.

We can engage our past and present more fully when we engage the humanity of those that came before us. We engage their humanity more thoroughly by engaging our own humanity with our whole selves - body, mind and heart.

How?

Pausing to feel wonder, sadness, awe, disgust and hope. Asking what happened before and after the day listed in the exhibit tied to the moment preserved in time. Tying stories together and seeing how just like you and I, these people whose names somehow survived the anonymity of history showed up in honorable ways and destructive ways. Approaching the NMAAHC as a pilgrimage does just that - engages your senses, so you can engage the humanity and fullness of stories then and now.

So how do you treat a museum like a pilgrimage?

Well, it helps to have a guide. And I’m so obsessed with the Blacksonian that I wrote that guide for the Blacksonian. The Stony Road Pilgrimage, will help you approach this beautiful and challenging museum (the lower three floors) as a pilgrimage alone, with a companion or a group. The guide is only $10 and is available as a download through Christians for Social Action*. You can also download an excerpt for free.

I’d love to know your experience. Email me and let me know how your pilgrimage goes.

*This project was funded by my work as a Racial Justice Fellow for Christians for Social Action. As someone raised in and theologically trained in Christian traditions, it has Christian influences but I consciously wrote for accessability, regardless of religious belief or non-belief.

The Newsletter is Back…and Shorter than Ever!

I’m getting back on that newsletter horse again.

I think I’ve said that multiple times this year….so we’ll see how this goes.

I really just want a way to keep in touch with y’all - former, current and future clients, enneagram mentees and friends - who are supported by the work I do in the world.

I plan to communicate monthly with events, resources and a smattering of writing within my realms of expertise - leadership, team dynamics, social issues, and the Enneagram of course.

If somehow you’ve found this post and haven’t yet signed up for my email list, go ahead…get on it! If you have but you’re no longer getting them, please sign up again as I switched platforms and you may have gotten bumped off the list.

Thanks for being on this journey with me and receiving my words. I appreciate you.