What liberatory futures are we dreaming into?

How do we
co-create those
futures now?

Facilitation is the practice of making a process or dialogue easier.

It is a way of guiding powerful conversations so that all participants feel heard and understood, tensions and conflicts have room to surface and be addressed, and a group’s desired outcomes are achieved. 

I offer the following suite of facilitation services to support organizations and networks in building relationships of trust and accountability and creating and/or shaping organizational or network culture in ways that nurture shared power, shared responsibility and shared visions of healing, justice, and liberation.

Staff Retreats

Depending on the needs of the staff team, staff retreats can be designed to:

• surface underlying tensions and conflicts and create space to address these using practices such as somatic experiencing and opening, inner and outer attunement and context specific conflict transformation tools. 

• build shared language and tools related to mutual support and accountability to strengthen and/or build internal structures to nurture this;

• build a shared analysis and embodied understanding of where the organization’s internal and external programs are in their ecocycles and to identify obstacles and opportunities for decomposition, growth and evolution.

workshops

To develop shared language and skill sets in liberatory leadership and conflict transformation for staff through interactive engagement with research based, holistic, interdisciplinary frameworks and tools, as well as practice related to real life scenarios.

Transitioning into a Worker-Directed Non-Profit

To support organizations seeking to democratize their workplaces by transitioning from a traditional nonprofit leadership structure into a governance structure in which all workers have the power to influence the programs in which they work, the conditions of their workplace, their own career paths, and the direction of the organization as a whole.

All of the above services require a preliminary discovery phase involving key interest holders to 1) understand the organization’s current context, priority needs, and desired outcomes and 2) build consent and shared responsibility for the process.

“There is a conversation

 in the room that only

 these people at this

 moment can have...

Find it.”

“There is a conversation in the room that

only these people at this moment can have...

– adrienne maree brown

  • "nisha is a deeply ancestrally grounded and guided witness and space holder, and I have been deeply nourished by her practice and her coaching and facilitation offerings. nisha moves with great respect towards her peers, listens with an open heart, and knows how to ask the right questions to support in moving stuck energy towards transformation. She pulls from her somatic, contemplative, and arts-based liberatory practices to offer a well-rounded and adaptive approach to space holding that really is meant to meet people where they’re at. I highly recommend working with nisha for those looking for a partner that will create a thoughtful, loving, and resourced container for your own unravelings."

    – Juliana Santoyo, Director of Liberatory Practice, One Square World

  • "I've seen nisha facilitate so many types of gatherings - everything from organizational conflict and healing processes to transformative gatherings for women of color. Across all of these, I appreciate how deeply thoughtful and intentional nisha is. She ensures that every component from the ways we interact to the set up of the space is aligned with our values and purpose. She infuses song, sound, music, and movement into her facilitation, and, through her modeling, she creates space for joy and gratitude. I also appreciate how, as a guide, nisha can reveal truths, provide insightful recommendations, and call forth accountability towards different ways of being together."

    – Susan Misra, Principal and Founder, Aurora Commons

  • "nisha is an observative, generous, wise, and intuitive space holder & respected movement elder. I experienced her facilitation in a variety of settings including a heated organizational arbitration process between nonprofit leaders & organizers on strike, a weekend retreat for BIPOC femme and nonbinary leaders to experience song, constellation therapy, and sacred cacao ritual, and a committee of movement leaders in the northeast gathered to provide feedback about a new leadership development program. Throughout these processes, nisha helped me to build awareness of the form, colors, textures, and temperatures in my heart & body, listen to their wisdom, and see that I am at choice about how I show up when I'm feeling contraction."

    – Jéssica Oliveira, Director of People & Operations, Matahari Women Workers’ Center