Our Values
Diversity & Respect
Our fates are interconnected all over the globe. We seek out those different from us with whom to collaborate and learn.
Conscious Communication
Design communicates. Process communicates. Our words and our deeds communicate. This awareness guides us towards developing new understanding.
Wellness & Integrity
Healthy individuals beget healthy communities. Integrity is wholeness and in order to be whole, we must be well.
About Us
We serve the intersectional communities that have been historically oppressed. The marginalized, the outcasts, and the disenfranchised are our people. We are the global majority building our new reality together.
We inspire, equip and amplify change agents. We dismantle oppression from the ground up and from the inside out. Healing and joy are our calling.
By investing care, peer support, and capacity building resources into our communities, we accelerate our emergence into a positive-sum future. Together we bend the arc of history towards justice and ensure our collective liberation becomes reality.
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Our Programs
The Consultancy
OUR FACILITATION AND TRAINING SERVICES
You want to build a diverse organization where everyone thrives and feels connected to the mission? Want to grow through conflict rather that suffer in it? Need to plan, strategize & collaborate? Let’s do the work. You need Swell…
Community Programs
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Feel like you would thrive with the support and structure of some regular check-ins with a community of your peers in the rising? Are you approaching burn-out ? Need to remind yourself of your big “why”? You need the Collective…
School
The online school for new wave leaders
Are you a change agent looking for a vibrant learning community? Seeking to to refine and grow your skills in influencing your communities for the better? Swell School is for you.
OUR COURSES
Swell School offers transformational curriculum curated and created by intersectional change agents, thought leaders, and influencers spanning the disciplines of collaboration, technology and resilience.
Testimonials
Kit Amreik
The Facilitator's Academy was a very invigorating experience and helped reorient my life when I needed it. I appreciate the manner that Emily as well as the team for facilitating such a wonderful space. It encouraged me to come out of my shell and roar as a lion :]
Nancy Latham
I learned so much form the Facilitators Academy - it wasn't only about facilitation tools (although we learned a lot about those!) - it was really about holding a gentle space for people to bring forward their most authentic selves (even in these awkward zoom spaces). In these days when the world gives us so much reason to feel rage, despair, and grief, holding gentle space is a critical skill. People can feel all those challenging feelings *and* get in touch with sources of joy and hope. Being in the "room" with the main facilitator, Emily Gonzales was a revelation. I felt as if a more communitarian future were being manifested before my eyes.
Lou Zweier
The Facilitator Academy is a powerful and insightful training that builds skills, awareness, and internal capacity to guide groups in working across differences and through shared problem solving. It's practical, effective, and so needed in groups and organizations today.
Amira Mustapha
I loved being a part of the inaugural class of the Facilitators Academy. I was able to learn many facilitation techniques. One lesson I am thankful I learned is that I do not have to have all the answers as a facilitator. My job is to help guide the conversation. Learning (and remembering) this makes facilitating a hundred times easier.
