How we bring people together can lead to infinite possibilities.

Whether its virtual or physical, thinking creatively about how you want people to feel, think, react and be motivated -- with specific contexts and settings in mind -- your next meeting, workshop or gathering can lead to vibrant and invigorating outcomes.

Workshops

Conferences and gatherings rarely give us the time to engage in facilitated conversations that allow for generative and expansive thinking. Jen engages with your team to tailor workshops aligned to the purpose of a particular gathering, organization or network.

Advisory / Facilitation

Tackling challenging conversations or obstacles within your organization are commonplace but often are better served with a multi-partial facilitator. Jen engages with individuals and groups in-person or virtually to strategize, design and facilitate high stakes, multi-scale gatherings and challenging conversations in the public, private, institutional, arts and social movement spaces.

Design Consultation

Effective spatial design and flow ensures our purpose aligns with the purpose of our gatherings. A unique opportunity to pair the lens of a designer with a facilitator's mindset to create spaces for your people to do their best most vibrant work in-person or virtually.

Here's what folks are saying about Jen:

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A note about my rates

Jen uses an equitable sliding scale developed by Alexis J. Cummingfolk and Embrace Equity's Britt Hawthorne. Please consider where you fall on the financial sliding scale as we discuss fees. And, from Radical History Club "A sliding scale is used to encourage people to pay according to their available resources. Those with greater financial privilege contribute more, allowing those with less access, to pay according to their means. This allows the business to sustain its services while making accessibility as broad as possible."

Where do you fall on the sliding scale?

green

  • I am comfortably able to meet all of my basic* needs
  • I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
  • I own my home or property OR I rent a higher-end property
  • I own or lease a car
  • I am employed or do not need to work to meet my needs
  • I have regular access to health care
  • I have access to financial savings
  • I have an expendable** income
  • I can always buy new items
  • I can afford an annual vacation or take time off

blue

  • I may stress about meeting my basic needs but still regularly achieve them
  • I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
  • I own or lease a car
  • I am employed
  • I have access to health care
  • I might have access to financial savings
  • I have some expendable income
  • I am able to buy some new items & I thrift others
  • I can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden

purple

  • I frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them
  • I have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs
  • I rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing
  • I do not have a car and/or have limited access to a car but I am not always able to afford gas
  • I am unemployed or underemployed
  • I qualify for government assistance including food stamps & health care
  • I have no access to savings
  • I have no or very limited expendable income
  • I rarely buy new items because I am unable to afford them
  • I cannot afford a vacation or have the ability to take time off without financial burden
The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic JusticeEmbrace Equity, Britt Hawthorne

" In the time I spent alongside Jen as our volunteer facilitator for the Vermont Social Equity Caucus' reboot, she showed an attentiveness to each of our needs as well as a flexibility while holding the work of the group front and center. "

Jen is an all-around positive energy.

- Dr. Mary M. Gannon, Ed.D., racial equity educator and consultant and fellow member, Vermont Social Equity Caucus

Jen has worked with:

Community Mediation, Inc.

European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA)

Futures For Children

Gedakina

George Mason University

Global Hemp Innovation Center (GHIC)

Golubka

Institute for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia (fmr) ISAR

International Hemp Building Association (IHBA)

L’auravetl’an Indigenous Information Center

NOCO Hemp Expo and Innovate Earth Symposium

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo and Biology Institute

Smithsonian-Wide Climate Change and Adaptation Planning Committee

THEARC: Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Center

The Flynn

University of Vermont

Vermont Social Equity Caucus

Yale Divinity School

Youth for Understanding / Alliance for Conflict Transformation