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Woven Grove Autumn Learning Series
Three sessions to deepen your practice in equitable organizational culture, leadership, and shared flourishing through changing times
The conditions in which we work, lead, and pursue equity are changing rapidly. This autumn, Woven Grove invites purpose-driven and equity-centered leaders and practitioners into a series of learning and practice spaces to make meaning of this moment, strengthen our capacity to respond, and cultivate what comes next.
Across two in-person workshops and an online Learning Harvest, we'll move from the organizational to the personal and back into practice: exploring what this changing landscape is asking of our organizations, strengthening our capacity to lead through complexity, and learning alongside others navigating similar questions across sectors.
🌿 October 7 — What Comes Next for Equity and Belonging?
🌱 October 14 — Rooted Through the Storm
🍂 October 21st — Online Learning Harvest
Attend either workshop separately or join us for the whole series. All in-person registrations include free attendance for the online Learning Harvest (discount automatically applied) to reflect, share emerging insights, what we're practicing, and continue deepening in community. Can't join in person? Join the Learning Harvest only to be a part of the conversation.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14th, 5:30-7:30pm
Rooted Through
the Storm
Leading Without Losing Yourself in Complexity and Change
If it feels like every week in your values-driven work brings another urgent decision, rapid shift, policy change or difficult conversation, you’re not alone.
Today’s leaders are expected to move quickly while supporting exhausted teams, navigating uncertainty, responding to shifting expectations, and making thoughtful decisions with incomplete information. It’s easy to find yourself reacting to the next crisis instead of leading from the things that make thoughtful leadership possible: our values, relationships, and imaginations.
Drawing from leadership science and the wisdom of living systems, this interactive workshop introduces the R.O.O.T.E.D. Framework—a practical approach for staying grounded, connected, and values-aligned when conditions become chaotic or tense.
Together, we'll practice how to:
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Ground before reacting so urgency doesn't make every decision for us
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Notice what's actually happening within ourselves, our relationships, and the conditions around us
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Stay connected to the people and relationships that strengthen our capacity to lead
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Return to values when competing pressures make the right next step less obvious
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Create room for imagination and adaptability rather than defaulting to familiar responses
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Move toward intentional action without needing certainty about everything that comes next
Come if you’re asking questions like:
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Everything feels urgent. How do I figure out what actually needs my attention right now?
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My team is exhausted and I’m stretched thin too. How do I support others without running myself into the ground?
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I know what I value, but the practical realities are pulling me in different directions. What do I do when there isn’t a clean “right” choice?
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We can’t keep doing things the way we’ve always done them—but I don’t know what the alternative looks like yet. How do I lead from here?
You'll leave with:
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The R.O.O.T.E.D. Framework and practical strategies you can return to during moments of pressure
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None of us leads through complexity alone: you'll learn alongside other leaders and practitioners wrestling with many of the same questions.
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Practices for grounding, reflection, connection, values-aligned decision-making, and adaptive action.
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Greater clarity about how you want to approach a real leadership challenge you're navigating now
This is for:
People managers and organizational leaders, equity-centered practitioners, facilitators, consultants, community and nonprofit leaders, and anyone whose work asks them to make thoughtful choices and help others navigate change. No particular title or level of authority required.
In-Person | Place to B
1661 SE 3rd Ave. Portland, OR 97214
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7th, 5:30-7:30pm
What Comes Next for Equity and Belonging?
Making Sense and Cultivating Possibility in a Season of Change
Many organizations have spent recent years adapting to rapid political, economic, and cultural change. Departments and budgets reorganized. Roles evolved. Language shifted. Equity commitments were challenged, renamed, or reimagined. And yet the need for cultures of belonging and flourishing remains ever pressing.
The season has changed. So, how are we changing with it?
This interactive gathering invites purpose-driven and equity-centered practitioners to make sense of how culture and equity work is evolving, learn how others are adapting, and consider what we want to carry forward.
Through hands-on exercises, cross-sector peer consulting, and practical frameworks, we'll explore the conditions shaping our work, where we still have agency to respond, and what this moment is asking us to cultivate next.
Together we'll:
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Make meaning of the season we're leaving. Reflect on what's changed, what we've learned, and what is worth carrying forward.
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Learn across organizations and sectors. Hear how other practitioners are responding to changing conditions, constraints, and opportunities.
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Widen the lens. Use an accessible ecosystem perspective to notice the people, communities, forces, and conditions shaping our work.
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Reconnect with agency. Distinguish what is outside our control from where we still have room to adapt, experiment, and act with integrity.
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Look toward the next season. Consider what we want to cultivate next in pursuit of greater equity, belonging, and shared flourishing.
Come if you're navigating questions like:
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What do we hold onto when the language, structures, or expectations around equity change?
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How are other organizations adapting?
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Which constraints are real—and where do we still have room to act?
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What might equity and belonging ask of us next?
You'll leave with:
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Greater clarity about the conditions shaping your work,
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Perspectives and practices from peers across sectors
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New possibilities for what to carry forward, adapt, or cultivate next
This is for:
Organizational leaders, equity and belonging practitioners, HR and OD professionals, facilitators, consultants, community engagement professionals, and other purpose-driven practitioners. You don't need “equity” in your title to belong in this room.
In-Person | Place to B
1661 SE 3rd Ave. Portland, OR 97214
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21st, 5:30-7:30pm PT
Autumn Learning Harvest
An Online Community of Practice
The learning doesn't end when we leave the room.
Participants from both workshops, their guests and others who were not able to attend in person are invited back for a facilitated Learning Harvest, an online community of practice for reflecting on what we've tried, what we're noticing, and what we're learning as we put our ideas into practice.
Rather than introducing more content, we'll learn from one another and our collective learning ecosystem by sharing experiments, questions, adaptations, challenges, and emerging possibilities across organizations and sectors.
Come back with what happened. Leave with new perspectives on what to tend next.
Online | Included with either workshop registration
This space is committed to being welcoming of everyone regardless of lived experience, ability, or social positionality. Please direct any concerns or accessibility requests to info@wovengroveconsulting.com.
We care about making this accessible to all who want to participate.
Use the following codes that apply to you:
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Bring a Colleague: TEAMUP for 10% off when you Bring a College
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Financial Accessibility: ACCESS for 35% off any registration
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Place to B Members: PLACETOB for 50% off of any registration
About Your Facilitator
Liberty Gonzalez (they/them) is a community psychologist, certified mindful facilitator, holistic leadership coach (ICF ACC), and culture and change consultant who empowers values-driven organizations to cultivate transformative culture change across leadership, strategy, relationships, and systems. As Founder and Lead Consultant of Woven Grove Consulting, they work across public, private, nonprofit, and community sectors, supporting organizations to navigate complexity and change and strengthen their capacity to embody their values for greater equity and belonging through how they lead, work and relate.
With a background spanning organizational development, facilitation, grassroots community organizing, and racial and gender justice, Liberty brings together community psychology and living-systems thinking to understand organizations as part of larger, interconnected ecosystems. Their work supports leaders and groups move beyond silos and cultivate the relationships and conditions through which people, organizations, and communities can flourish together.
Liberty is currently completing doctoral research at Pacifica Graduate Institute exploring how gender-expansive parents and caregivers cultivate relationships, belonging, and flourishing across generations.
About our Sponsors
Place to B is a Values-driven co-working space and emerging business community in inner SE Portland that strives to enhance collaboration between other start-ups, businesses and nonprofits working for social and environmental change.
Kaleido Studio is a client-driven and planet-focused architectural firm that balances the synergies of people, program, and place to create spaces that impart lasting positive impacts.
Venue, Parking & Accessibility
For the two in-person sessions, we'll gather at Place to B, a values-driven coworking and community space in Portland's Central Eastside for businesses, nonprofits, and professionals working toward social and environmental change.
Place to B
1661 SE 3rd Ave
Portland, OR 97214
Coffee, tea, sparkling water, and light refreshments will be available. Please feel free to bring food if desired.
We want these gatherings to be as accessible and welcoming as possible. There is an ADA ramp and bathroom on site. Street parking is available surrounding the venue. If you have an access need or accommodation that would support your participation, please share it when you register. We'll do our best to coordinate available accommodations.