Many of us have been struck in recent years by what we’ve learned about oppression, marginalization, and other forms of inequity in our culture, our relationships, our selves.
Many of us struggle to figure out how to make things better—without making things worse. I’ve struggled, too.
I developed The Tender Work as way pathway into the delicate and fraught terrain of equity work. It’s an invitation to gently, resolutely learn how to unmask the social world—to bolster our agency in it.
WHAT I OFFER
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1:1 Coaching
Settle your equity & anti-oppression efforts
on a foundation of awareness, personal work & accountability -
Consultation
Keen guidance for teams, leaders & visionaries
considering both reality and the world you want to create
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Facilitation
Equity-infused, relationship-centric, anti-oppression education
with uncommon attention to how content is conveyed
Events
I offer workshops, meetings and circles infused with the stuff of equity: shared voices, deep listening, non-hierarchical set-ups that convey anti-oppression sensibilities in their very structure. I facilitate alone or with fabulous colleagues.
FEATURED BLOG POSTS
what Clients say
I’ve been an anti-oppression educator for a while now. Turns out the oppression I know least about is antisemitism. Ironic, because I’m Jewish—or as I often claim, more -ish than Jew. This way I describe myself? I’d call it antisemitic. It’s how I distance myself from my cultural heritage, it reflects my longstanding and reflexive turning away from Jewish people, gatherings, and topics. In the very way I’ve been socialized into antiBlack racism—something I know a lot about—I’ve also been socialized to be antisemitic. All of us have.