Welcome to my other world!

I work with purpose-driven people and teams looking to collaborate or build stronger relationships. Through consulting, facilitation and training, I help individuals, life partners, families, and teams improve communication, navigate difficult conversations, and engage in more robust sensemaking around culturally divisive topics.

Anyone who knows me will tell you what a relationship geek I am :-)

Working with me will help you experience:

  • Greater meaning and clarity in collaborations.

  • More resourcefulness during moments of conflict and tension

  • More skill and comfort in engaging in ‘hot-button’ or polarizing conversations

  • Useful frames and mental models for navigating the complexity of our moment, in order to engage with diverse worldviews and cultures more sensitively.

I’m an educator, content creator and Certified Integral Facilitator® who has worked in the field of communications for over 2 decades.  I've seen the fallout of poor communication, unconscious/unspoken power dynamics, and entrenched conflicts in couples, families, teams, organizations, and networks, and I'm sure you have too. 

I'm passionate about helping people create value through relationships and generate more robust outcomes for shared goals and projects.  In a time of great uncertainty and change, collaborating well on our shared wicked challenges is more important than ever.  I'd love to partner with you in this transformative work.

Services:  

  • Mediation & Conflict Coaching (couples, family members, teams, and individuals)

  • Workshops and Training (in-house, custom-designed, for organizations, nonprofits, social enterprise or communities) in:

    • Communication micro-skills

    • Constructive resolution of conflicts and tensions

    • Engaging with power, equity and inclusion in times of increased diversity

Trainings and workshops I offer:  

  • Communication Micro-skills Lab Series: Developing skills for more clear, empowered and effective communications at home, at work, and in community.  Themes for sessions include working with conflict, assertion, boundaries, reflective listening, reframing, and repair/apologies.  

  • Sensemaking Across the Cultural Divides:  Tools for thinking and talking in polarized times:  Making meaning in a politicized, oversaturated information landscape, and developing skills for constructive dialogue around hot topics that creates pathways towards connection and collaboration.

  • Conflict and repair: Helping you to better understand your own habits in conflict, and the inner and outer skills to engage with conflict more constructively, as well as repair, acknowlegements and taking responsibility in its aftermath.

  • Power, Leadership and You:  A 101 guide:  Understanding and engaging with different sources of power within our relationships at work, at home and in our communities, and learning to identify and leverage your own personal power to benefit yourself and others.  

  • Media Literacy and Sensemaking for Youth: A suite of workshops to help adolescents and teens develop critical thinking tools to better assess online content, so that they're less vulnerable to misinformation. These workshops will also arm youth with the skills to engage in more meaningful conversations about polarizing cultural issues with friends, family and community.

My Training and Experience Includes: 

I care about the inclusion of LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, poly and disabled communities, and use an equity lens and trauma-informed approach in my work.  I still have a lot to unpack and unlearn regarding my own colonial conditioning and unconscious bias - it's a lifelong learning curve :-)

For tips and tools around upleveling your relating and collaboration skills, follow me on Instagram here.

Like to explore working with me?  Have a question you'd like to discuss to see if we'd be a good fit? Reach out to me at suutaria@gmail.com.