Building bridges...
between how the world is...
and how it could be...
BridgePeople was born in 2019 in response to the concerning escalation of violence in our public discourse and private conversations. Toxic leadership models at the highest levels of public and private governance in our society enable the perfect conditions for increasing violence. We need a different approach if we want different results: we must start to value humans and relationships over outcomes and institutions.
BridgePeople partners with committed leaders and stewards who are ready to divest from all forms of domination, violence, and injustice and invest in new ways of being, working, and relating. We research, reclaim, and employ the already-available wisdom of great teachers in all our ancestral lineages, who lived and taught the practices of love, healing, liberation, and transformation across cultures and generations.
We build containers for dialogue that ensure that all voices, particularly those historically silenced and excluded, are adequately heard and valued. In this way, we help teams harvest the individual and collective wisdom available in every group of humans choosing to gather and collaborate to create something beautiful and transformational for our society.
We support human-centered culture transformation, emergent and non-hierarchical organizational design, and embodied leadership practices which are both conscious and inclusive. Our deepest calling is to be an agent for advancing people-power through relationships and to build the solidarity we will need to achieve social, political, economic, and spiritual transformation everywhere we live, work, play, and pray.
Guided by love, respect, curiosity, and connection, we are building bridges between how the world currently is and how it could be. We affirm that we hold the collective power to meaningfully divest from the harmful systems that separate, dominate, and dehumanize too many of us. We are ready and can help you get ready to start building the relationships, organizations, systems, and structures that will best serve our communities.
Our Services
The BridgePeople Network is made up of a diverse and robust cadre of highly experienced and qualified professionals to support leaders and organizations at the forefront of healing, justice, and peace-building work. Our collective service offerings include:
Healing-Centered Gatherings & Retreats
Conversations seeking to transform conflict, address generations of injustice, or transform organizational practices can be emotionally charged. Thus, skilled facilitation that is healing-centered or trauma-informed is required to create containers that can withstand generative conflict, make room for differing perspectives, and provide space for our full humanity.
We model transformational dialogue, promote connection and solidarity building, and equip senior leaders with facilitation tools. We co-create with you impactful retreats and other gatherings to meet your organization's human and business needs.
Values-Based Strategic Planning & Organizational Re-design
Dismantling anti-Blackness, Native erasure, sexism, classism, homophobia, ableism, and all other forms of discrimination and exclusion in the workplace requires culture transformation.
We facilitate values-based strategic processes that promote deep engagement with key stakeholders, centering the needs of those most impacted by systemic oppression and cultures of domination.
We support leaders in transforming cultures and structures in ways that are aligned to their professed or desired values.
Conscious, Inclusive, & Embodied Leadership Coaching
We help develop, support, and promote conscious, inclusive, and embodied leadership. While culture is everyone's responsibility, we acknowledge that senior leaders set the tone at the top. We provide innovative ideas, thought partnership, and accountability structures for senior leaders committed to being the change we want to see in the world.
We equip executive and board leaders to inspire their teams through trust-building, facilitating transformational dialogue, and deepening relationships - helping their their teams feel genuinely seen, heard, and valued.
Organizations we have partnered with include:
