Connect people to nature to support community challenges.
People enjoy fishing, boat tours, and skating at a late skate at the Anacostia Roller Skating Pavilion in Anacostia Park on October 29, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by NPS/Claire Hassler.
Restorative Park Engagement
Intentional park programming can help people whose environments include trauma benefit from the full range of what nature offers.
Community Consultation
Convene experts to co-create innovative park engagements.
Using joyful and safe facilitation processes, we surface opportunities for communities to leverage the power of nature to address local challenges.
Using joyful and safe facilitation processes, we surface opportunities for communities to leverage the power of nature to address local challenges.
Meaningful family engagement community listening session, 2019
Green Workforce Development
Green workforce programs that connect underemployed residents to meaningful work.
Our training and employment programs help residents become more employable while cultivating a sense of pride and belonging in community parks, natural spaces, and green careers.
Our training and employment programs help residents become more employable while cultivating a sense of pride and belonging in community parks, natural spaces, and green careers.
Program Design
Design and implement programs that inspire, heal, and empower communities.
Using a trauma-based approach, we create customized community programs that help change how people feel about themselves, their communities, and their place on Earth.
Using a trauma-based approach, we create customized community programs that help change how people feel about themselves, their communities, and their place on Earth.
Partnership Development
Map, classify, and build meaningful social networks linking dynamic people, parks, and places.
Partners who respect the importance of improving the well-being of economically stressed communities can change the world.
Partners who respect the importance of improving the well-being of economically stressed communities can change the world.
Presentations, Woke-shops™,
and Talks
Strategies and tactics to bring restorative park engagement to new communities.
Talks highlight the intersection of social and environmental issues and demonstrate how nature-based solutions can help address chronic stress related to intergenerational poverty, community violence, racism, and other forms of trauma.
Talks highlight the intersection of social and environmental issues and demonstrate how nature-based solutions can help address chronic stress related to intergenerational poverty, community violence, racism, and other forms of trauma.
National Recreation and Parks Association Conference, Atlanta Georgia, 2024