Services

Emergent & Strategic Facilitation, Communication, Project Management & Consulting

Services for businesses, community groups, coalitions, foundations, government agencies, municipalities, networks, institutions, nonprofit organizations, and social enterprises.

Coalition Building & Community Engagement

Learn and embody emergent strategy, collective impact, and social change ecosystem approaches and frameworks.

Cyclical Project Management

Work with PIMLA to create collaborative and cyclical processes for emergent and strategic planning and implementation.

Communication Consulting & Outreach Strategy

Draw from Rae Carter’s 20 year career in organizational communications, grassroots marketing, campaign management, and public relations. 

Facilitation

Engage in trauma-informed and culturally competent facilitation, working with The Circle Way, Cultural Somatics, Emergent Strategy, Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory, and My Grandmother’s Hands.

Operations Consulting

Build skills for effective teams, groups, and organizations with consulting sessions, collaborative leadership and communication coaching.

Program & Workshop Design

Co-create experiential, somatic shared learning experiences, programs, circles, and ceremonies; interactive | in person, online | hybrid.

Strategic Visioning

Weave astrology, sociocracy, and Wheel of the Year nature rhythms into planning processes that can be more fluid, iterative, and responsive to climate and political chaos.

Training & Workshops

Communication Practice Part 1: Circle Facilitation Training Workshop
Learn circle process background and techniques and how to apply to meeting facilitation, conversation design, and equitable communication practices.

Communication Practice Part 2: Conflict Evolution Workshop
Build skills in how to navigate group conflict and transform tension points into generative conversation for improved team effectiveness and strategy.

Project Management Practice: Emergent & Strategic Planning Workshop
Develop an embodied understanding and identify practical ways to shift from linear to cyclical project management to improve adaptability in chaotic times.

Restorative Practice: Brave Conversations Mediation Workshop
Practice mediation, hone trust building skills, and learn embodied tools to approach interpersonal conversations with more care, clarity, and courage.

Trauma Informed Practice: Healing from Dominance Workshop
Lean into discomfort with somatic approaches to identify the ways dominance shows up in your group or team and how to disembody white supremacy.

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Cultivate people powered communication and operational systems for communities, groups, and teams.

We cocreate with you to:

  • ADAPT community building and organizational communication practices and processes to meet the moment we are in
  • BUILD collaborative teams with power-sharing leadership that can be responsive to changing work environments 
  • DESIGN adaptable projects with cyclical timelines and proactive organizational communication 
  • EMBODY restorative practices rooted in somatic abolitionism for team nervous system support 
  • ESTABLISH mutual aid, resilience hub, and community safety nets that do not replicate the old systems of power, are responsive to the needs of a community, and are led by people in the community 
  • FACILITATE meetings, mergers, retreats, and transformative change to form stronger and more resilient coalitions, groups, networks, teams, and webs 
  • NAVIGATE group dynamics and conflict evolution for more conscious and effective teams 
  • PRIORITIZE accessibility, accountability, and creating welcoming environments where people can feel like they belong
  • SHIFT from strategic planning to strategic visioning for possibility and resilience

EmpowR Vermont Sunburst
Recent Clients & Projects
  • Cathedral Square
  • Central Vermont Showing Up for Racial Justice 
  • Center for Women and Enterprise
  • Friends of the Mad River
  • Lamoille County Mental Health 
  • Let’s Grow Kids
  • Northeast SARE
  • Plainfield Area Community Trust
  • Plainfield Farmers Market
  • Plainfield Resilience Hub
  • Pride Center of Vermont 
  • Sterling College
  • The Creative Discourse Group
  • Vermont Land Access and Opportunity Board
  • Vermont Farm Show 
  • Vermont Trail Accessibility Hub
“EmpowR Transformation facilitation created meaningful and memorable activities centered in careful listening. We all felt safe and nurtured through challenging conversations and found connections in unanticipated ways. EmpowR Transformations offered some unique experiences and perspectives to a community that felt fractured and disconnected. We all learned new things about ourselves and our neighbors.”

~ Susan Abell, Cathedral Square

“EmpowR Transformation was extremely helpful to our organization in facilitating conversation around a controversial topic. The facilitation was well structured in a way that allowed all of the folks in the conversation to have equal time to express their thoughts in response to prompts provided. The facilitator was able to course-correct when folks wandered off of the prompt in a kind but firm way. The somatic approach was appreciated, pausing after moments of heightened emotion for people to come back into their bodies and regulate their emotions. Would definitely recommend EmpowR Transformation for facilitation!”

~ Jamie Shechtman, nonprofit board president

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