Coaching with Flowerboi Facilitations, LLC usually entails hourlong one-on-one sessions every other week, either in-person or over Zoom. In order to provide a custom coaching plan to support your efforts to grow as a leader in your executive role, we identify “Growth Goals” emerging from initial consultations. These “Growth Goals” are rooted in “Buds” (opportunities for growth) that culminate in “Blossoms" (outcomes of growth). Then we develop routine reflection questions informed by your "Growth Goals" to consider between sessions. Executive coaching provides a unique opportunity for both personal and organizational change, because transformation takes time and often flows through leaders in positions of power.
Deploying a range of activities, including close reading, role-playing, and identity caucusing, white supremacy trainings offer insights into issues like implicit bias, the meaning of diversity, and social rankings. Trainings have varied in length from one to four hours, and always provide scholarly evidence tailored to the organization in need. Participants are given simple anti-racist techniques for establishing community guidelines and starting discussions. Whether for your board of directors or undergraduate students, white supremacy trainings bring essential perspectives on how everybody is harmed by racism.
In this research-based and activity-centered session, participants will be invited to reimagine their relationships with plants. Rather than contemplating the vegetal world through the exploitative logics of settler colonialism, this interdisciplinary and interactive approach counters the harmful appropriation of indigenous epistemologies by offering insights into multiple ways humans tune into "plant-consciousness."
This workshop brings together interdisciplinary research and speculative design in order to promote collective sensemaking and relationship building; an imaginative and experimental practice with three valances (genealogical, epistemological, and relational). We begin by “sketching” our genealogical roots outward, because roots don’t grow into the past—they grow forward. The conversations and connections that emerge from these root sketches may expose intersections between race, ethnicity, indigeneity, nationality, and perhaps even challenge our understanding of appropriation, coloniality, whiteness, and other complex social constructs.
"I highly recommend Nat Mengist as a coach and consultant if you're working to advance equity and justice in an organization. Nat proposed a major structural change that we were able to implement with his help that I believe will be foundational to the organization's DEI work. He brings a lot of love, humor, and strength to his work. He'll hold you accountable, and hold you at the same time."
— Valerie Costa (Aril Consulting)