My Practice

My work centers on how people, organizations, and communities function together under pressure, transition, conflict, and change. I design and facilitate participatory processes that strengthen communication, leadership, collaboration, and collective problem-solving across a range of settings including cooperatives, educational institutions, arts organizations, neighborhood initiatives, conferences, and public-serving institutions.

My practice draws from mediation, popular education, Theater of the Oppressed, restorative process, cooperative governance, performance, and embodied facilitation. The work ranges from small-group dialogue to large-scale leadership development and institutional process support.

Facilitation & Leadership Development

I facilitate structured conversations that help groups navigate conflict, clarify responsibility, strengthen participation, and move through difficult questions with greater honesty and coherence. This work may involve conflict engagement, restorative and accountability processes, collaborative decision-making, strategic reflection, visioning, and group process design. My approach is participatory, relational, and adaptive to the needs of the room.

I also design experiential learning environments that help people strengthen communication, collaboration, leadership presence, and collective capacity. Depending on the setting, this may include role-play and scenario practice, participatory exercises, coaching conversations, reflective practice, and governance or accountability training. I have developed and facilitated trainings for cooperative leaders, students, artists, educators, and organizational teams.

Cooperative & Organizational Practice

Much of my work focuses on helping organizations and cooperative systems function more intentionally and sustainably. This includes work related to governance, participation structures, organizational communication, accountability, institutional culture, and team function under pressure.

Current and past organizational work includes serving as Director of Education & Training for the Inter-Cooperative Council, cooperative development facilitation with the Center for Family Life in Brooklyn, restorative and participatory process advising, and facilitation within educational, cultural, and community-based organizations.

Arts, Culture & Civic Engagement

My practice is deeply informed by popular theatre, community-based performance, and cultural organizing. As founder of Falconworks Theater Company, I developed original performance and engagement work exploring civic participation, housing, public dialogue, social transformation, and collective imagination.

That artistic practice continues to shape how I approach facilitation, leadership, participation, storytelling, and collective learning. I believe culture is not separate from civic life, but one of the ways communities understand themselves, build relationships, and imagine change.

Conflict, Crisis & Recovery

My work spans contexts ranging from interpersonal conflict to high-pressure institutional and recovery environments. Past work includes serving as a Peacemaker with the Red Hook Community Justice Center, cooperative conflict support and mediation, accountability and restorative process facilitation, emergency and crisis-response support, and leadership support during periods of institutional transition.

Across contexts, I help groups improve communication, stabilize participation, and build more functional ways of working together.

Speaking & Public Engagement

I offer keynote talks, workshops, facilitated conversations, and public engagements on cooperation and governance, participatory leadership, conflict engagement, culture and civic life, anti-oppression practice, facilitation, embodied learning, and community-building under pressure.

My work has been presented nationally and internationally in educational, cultural, cooperative, and community settings.

Every engagement begins with context. I work with organizations, institutions, cooperatives, neighborhood initiatives, cultural groups, conferences, and public-serving entities in ways that are responsive to their actual needs, capacity, and moment. If you believe my work may be useful to your organization or community, feel free to reach out and begin a conversation.