Frame Consulting

02/01/2025

Next week, I start the training of trainers. I’m really excited to step back into training on this important information. Understanding how trauma, systemic oppression, and toxic stress impacts people and communities is the foundation for profound resilience and healing. You might think that awareness about Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma would be heavy for people, and it can be. But in my experience, that awareness can unite people to make true and lasting change. I spent many years as a trainer in Oregon and I’m looking forward to learning more with AZ ACEs Consortium!

12/31/2024

In 2024, Frame Consulting was able to work with partners and causes that closely align with our values. It was a beautiful and challenging year! We are entering 2025 full of gratitude and excitement for what is to come.
Wishing you a year of happiness, success, and growth! ❤️

09/20/2024

It was a true honor to hear speak at the Celebration for Resilience event last night, after attending the KER Risk and Resilience Symposium that afternoon as a member of the Impact Maker team focused on Tree Equity and increasing canopy coverage in vulnerable Phoenix neighborhoods. Heather’s seminal book The Sum of Us should be required reading for everyone but especially people working on systems change and resilience initiatives. Her work communicates what racism costs us- how long-standing and deeply impactful trends in thinking about race and social order negatively influence America’s economy, environment, health, and wellbeing- and paves the way for changing these dynamics.
In her talk last night, Heather spoke about how people who have been marginalized and have experienced systemic failure are poised to see the entirety of systems and uniquely influence change making with their wisdom and perspective. I know this to be true through my experience working with communities to address complex problems- and my own lived experience with certain systems- and it is a guiding principle of Frame Consulting’s efforts.
In this phase of growth as a consultant, I’m acutely focus on projects that support leadership expansion to include people most affected by decisions and not just the people with resources or authority to make those decisions, and am committed to a culture of understanding what racism and zero sum thinking takes from people and communities. We must examine who is benefiting from it and call it out, over and over again. Now more than ever. Spoiler alert- it’s not you or me.

07/25/2024

Frame Consulting is a small business that first began in 2019 with the mission to grow community capacity for tackling intersecting, overlapping issues and make the most of available resources through alignment, collaboration, and leadership expansion. Since then, we have been involved in community-led efforts to address complex issues such as quality of and access to behavioral health resources, youth engagement, systems of care, drug and alcohol policy and planning, rural industry workforce development needs, and community resilience.
Photo from a recent escape from the Phoenix heat to northeastern Arizona- such a special place!

07/09/2024

Check out the new Frame Consulting website!

Frame Consulting works with leaders, groups, and networks to improve systems, increase resilience, and transform communities in sustainable and culturally responsive ways. Areas of Expertise Collaborative Problem Solving -Facilitation-Interdisciplinary communication and collective leadership support...