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Dreaming & Scheming

We bring people together both virtually and in person through one-time or recurring meetings, half or full day gatherings, or longer retreats to facilitate intentionality, grapple with complexity, and develop creative solutions to create more just and joyful futures.

Soulful Strategies

Sometimes, you just need to pause. To gather your team, ask big questions, and dream beyond business as usual. Dreaming & Scheming is where we help you do just that. Through one-time sessions, recurring meetings, half-or full day gatherings, or longer immersive retreats, we create intentional spaces to reflect, align, and co-create more just and joyful futures.

We guide your team through complexity with curiosity and care by bringing frameworks, facilitation, and tools that help you move from idea to clarity to action. Together, we unlock the wisdom already in the room and explore what’s possible when we center connection, intention, and inclusion.

This is strategy with soul. Planning with people at the center. Evaluation that actually invites learning.

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how we help

Dreaming & Scheming

 

Organizations choose us when they want to:

  • Seek deeper alignment between their vision and values

  • Reflect on program or organizational strategy with intention and creativity

  • Articulate assumptions that shape how programs are designed or measured

  • Explore power dynamics in their team, program, or data practices

  • Design more human-centered ways to collect feedback and share findings

  • Use tools like journey mapping, storyboarding, or community data walks

  • Shift meetings from transactional checkboxes to relational conversations

  • Engage staff and partners in meaningful, generative planning processes

Formats we offer:

  • One-time facilitation sessions (virtual or in-person)

  • Recurring team meetings with external facilitation

  • Half- or full-day gatherings

  • Multi-day strategic retreats

  • Custom-designed workshops that blend planning, learning, and play

Our Process

Transformation happens in the in-between—the space between perspectives, between experiences, between what’s comfortable and what’s possible. We design and hold spaces that welcome both/and thinking. Where both structure and emergence are valued. Where deep listening and courageous action are honored. Where we sit with complexity and possibility over rushed solutions. Whether you are coming to us seeking evaluation support or organizational strategy, our foundational process is the same: Ground, Create, and Integrate.

01

Ground

 We start all our work by slowing down and grounding ourselves in relationship, history, respect, and curiosity.

02

Create

Next we co-create a strategy that is meaningful, manageable, and measurable to tell your story.

03

Integrate

 We apply our learnings by continuously iterating, reflecting, and adapting as new information emerges.