We are excited to announce that we have launched a new organization called The Embodiment Institute. We are reorienting our course offerings through TEI.
Our Approach
We draw on ecological, emergent and embodied frameworks for learning and change.
This means that we listen deeply for the needs and strengths of your ecosystem and we move at a pace that allows for integration and learning.
Most importantly, our work is responsive to you.
Though we have theories of how best to support transitions and alignment, how we implement is largely contingent on the practices, beliefs, culture and nature of your work.
We know that change can’t only happen by focusing on one aspect of a dynamic organization. We measure and coordinate change that looks at individual, relational, and organizational shifts as necessary to sustain deep and aligned transformation.
We’ve worked with small to large scale organizations on values definition, alignment, culture and conflict transformation and leadership coaching. Please see below for our current offerings.
Offerings
Leadership Coaching in Transition
Culture Change
Facilitation & Change Doula-ing
Structural Alignment
Values Alignment
Trust Building & Hard Conversations
P. Hemphill
P. Hemphill is a Texan born therapist, movement facilitator, Somatics teacher, and writer living and working at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation, and organizing. Prentis spent many years developing, learning and contributing to powerful organizations such as generationFIVE, Communities United Against Violence (CUAV), The Relational Center, Dignity and Power Now, and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) - grappling with questions of how we value and transform ourselves and our intimate relationships, all while transforming conditions and institutions around us. Uncovering ancestral wisdom, creating new healing interventions, and shifting the culture of organizing towards creativity, healing, and joy have been central to Prentis' commitment and work. Prentis is also a deeply committed practitioner and healer who utilizes Somatics methodology, intuitive and ancestral practice into their work to heal trauma, and unlock the unique brilliance and contribution of each person, body and being they work with.
Kasha Ho
Kasha Hoʻokili Ho is co-founder of Groundwork Project, where she works with organizations to align their values with their daily work and organizational structure. Kasha uses fractal theory to assess, design, and enact new systems of collective abundance. She has been designing social change processes with communities for social, economic, and environmental justice for twenty years. Kasha is a facilitator and movement builder, trained through the American Friends Service Committee, the Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, Movement Generation and Native Hawaiian movements. In Hawaiʻi, she co-founded Emergent Island Economies Collective, a consulting cooperative based on ancestral island values of interdependence, sacredness, and cooperation. Kasha continues to provide strategic direction, planning, facilitation, and management for community based organizations throughout the country.
Our measurements of success are not the documents and plans we produce with you.
We are successful when you are practicing new ways, when new skills are embodied and clear, and actionable commitments are made.
Testimonials
“Working with Kasha and Prentis was an experience in accountability and compassion. They were able to push our leadership and organization to our edge to hold transformative process with each other through our work and in service to the communities we serve and consciousness we’re advancing in the world. Through our Liberated Hierarchy process, I learned through their care to process and rigor in managing systems and dynamics that the edge is not the end, it's a continuation of abundance that will flourish in our organization and movement.”
“I am so grateful for how well we were held as a staff, both in terms of Prentis's facilitation (which helped us feel seen, held, and lovingly challenged) and in Kasha's reliable systems (which helped us to hold ourselves accountable to our buddies and our values practices).”
“Working with Kasha & Prentis is an absolute dream. They bring so much care, deep listening, and thought partnership to the work. I would work with them over & over again!”