Is your organization ready to flourish?

We can help you get there.

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We support public agencies, nonprofits and
values-driven organizations to:

Cultivate equitable and enduring social ecosystems

Strengthen communication, collaboration and community;

Navigate conflict and change

Build leadership capacity, empowered team cultures and community engagement

Redesign systems, policies and structures for

long-term flourishing

Our Approach Centers:

Relationships between people, place and planet
Inclusive multi-modal learning & engagement
Trauma-informed practice and collaboration
Cultural humility and intersectional attunement
Supporting organizations as living systems

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In times of complex change and culture strain, small fractures ripple through the whole system.

Conflict. Exclusion. Burnout. Confusion. Turnover.

Organizations flourish when relationships, systems, and purpose are tended as a living ecosystem.

A grove is more than a stand of individual trees. From soil to the overstory, each tree is woven through unseen networks of collaboration—sharing information, resources, and mutual flourishing through living systems of connection.

Organizations and communities are living systems, too.

When leaders are supported and the culture empowers teams to feel motivated by shared purpose, the whole ecosystem becomes nourished.

Woven Grove Consulting partners with public agencies, nonprofits, and values-driven organizations in navigating complexity through a living-systems approach to organizational culture, leadership, and change.

We support teams to build trust, strengthen communication, develop adaptive leaders, and realign their process, power and purpose to support flourishing for people, place, and planet.

We follow the wisdom of a woven grove.

Woven Grove Consulting: Cultivating Flourishing Cultures for People, Place, and Planet

Organizations today are navigating unprecedented complexity: tight resources, rising burnout, political polarization, public scrutiny, and the real human weight of delivering mission-critical work in uncertain times. And there’s another layer that many leaders feel but don’t always have language for: Even when teams care deeply, difference and disparity shape who feels safe, who is heard, who bears the emotional load, and whose work is recognized . Identity, power, history, a

The Challenges of DEI Leadership in Polarized Times: Why Strategic, Compassionate Conflict Engagement is Critical

Explore DEI leadership challenges in polarized times. Learn strategies for compassionate conflict engagement & resilience amid change

Cultivating Connective Community Cultures through Transformative Communication

By learning to connect across differences and addressing the root causes of their divisions, the organization was able to cultivate a culture that was not only more equitable but also more connected and flourishing.

8 Leadership Capacities for Cultivating Flourishing Cultures

The leaders who help their cultures endure and adapt are not those with the loudest authority or the cleanest answers. They are the ones who tend relationships, stay present in complexity, and take responsibility for how power, process, and purpose shape the systems they lead.

What Does "Rehumanization" Have To Do With It?

Many organizations, in their eagerness to diversify and create more inclusive environments, inadvertently fall into the trap of applying a mechanistic, metrics-focused approach to what is ultimately a deeply human issue.

Language Matters - How DEI Copy Editing Can Transform Your Experience

Editor’s Note (2025): This article was originally published in 2020 under Awakening Creatives and reflects the early evolution of what is now Woven Grove Consulting. The ideas remain foundational to our work today. The words we choose to express our ideas, craft our curricula, and share our news do more than just communicate—they shape the very fabric of our collective consciousness. They influence how we see the world, how we interact with one another, and ultimately, how we

Meet Liberty

Certified Coach, Facilitator &

Liberatory Community Depth Psychologist

Liberty Gonzalez (They/Them), founder of Woven Gove Consulting has been committed to empowering organizations, leaders, and communities through complex change for over 15 years. With roots in grassroots community organizing, international cultural exchange, community wellbeing and movements for racial, environmental and gender-based justice, their work integrates systems thinking, equity-centered practice, and relational approaches to culture and leadership development, helping organizations align values with practice and build conditions for collective flourishing.

Credentials

M.A. in Community, Liberation, Indigenous & Ecopsychologies from Pacifica Graduate Institute (Ph.D. ABD)
ICF ACC and Transformational Coaching Certified
Certified Mindful Facilitator

Led by Liberty Gonzalez, Woven Grove Consulting engages a network of experienced collaborators to meet the scope and needs of each engagement.

What Our Clients Say

Jimi Mitchell, former EDI Co-Chair at Nelson\Nygaard

Liberty, with a partnering EDI Consultant, was instrumental in several roles they performed in support of Nelson\Nygaard's EDI Team initiatives including: the development and delivery of firmwide EDI training curriculum, leadership training to understand and recognize implicit racial biases and potentially unhealthy workplace behaviors, development of a firmwide Culture of Belonging survey as well as facilitating critical conversations between staff and firm leadership in response to survey feedback and findings. Liberty brought calm and professional demeanor, with empathetic and astute listening/communication skills to every discussion. They were to receive and channel a variety of personal and professional feedback from each of ten (10) offices and office managers to identify priority issues and opportunities to improve their cultures of communication, understanding and belonging. They are a tremendous asset to any group or organization in need of guidance on their journey to create more equitable, inclusive, and healthy environments for all.