​If we surrendered to earth's
intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Change is going to happen from people going
inward within themselves and along with
going back to having communion with their
​first mother, Mother Earth."
~Kevin Deer, Faithkeeper Mohawk Trail Longhouse, from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory

It is no measure of good health
​to be well adjusted to a sick society.
~Andrea Gibson

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​Re-imagine. 
The planet is asking a great deal more from us as we respond to these urgent and complex times. Human and planetary health have been ignored for centuries. Wood Dragon Advising creates and hosts space for you to re-imagine your place within and without. It is a safe harbor to consider your organization's path and practices while also leaning in to your personal mission and life's work. It is our belief that the strength and resilience of the collective emerges from the strength of the individual. No matter where you are in life, showing up with a beginner's mindset to activate your calling, renew your connections, and build community are steps along a path towards remembering that all life is sacred. The tools of colonization are violently extractive and numbing. We have lost our knowingness and intuitions. Our hearts, minds, and hands are not working together. I believe we can know again by attuning to Nature who is the ultimate source of all life.

Deepening our connections to ourselves, to each other and to the earth re-generates the ground we share with all living beings. We can not confront social and climate injustices without a commitment to interdependence and holism. Holism starts from within the individual in community. It is the microcosm to the macrocosm of the planet - unequivocally inter-connected. We are being called to activate and re-earth by getting back into our bodies to re-connect to our true nature, to be nature. Grounded leadership during this great transition can help pave the way to a flourishing future. Our most important job as humans in these times is to show up - to listen, to see, to feel, to act.  With Nature as our teacher, we must rewrite our story. 
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Nadine is a applied systems creator. With depth and breadth in theories of change and network building, impact/cause marketing, and facilitation, she is a teacher, student, mentor, advisor, writer, and storyteller. She is a seeker, keeper and co-creator serving all beings. Nadine will guide you with compassion, deep listening, and even some humor at every step of the way--join her in the Great Stream*; you will be supported and deeply cared for as we grieve, re-connect, and re-imagine our future together. 
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*The Great Stream is a metaphor for souls and spirits entering and experiencing the voyage of life.

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These are radically transformative times.

​Today is our chance to be both brave and broken-hearted to dance with our True Natures.

We--you and me are not alone. 

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Re-imagine. ​

>​Are you living your truths? 
>Are your truths tugging at you, but seem out of reach?
>Do you want to reintegrate your true nature with your intuition?

Advising & Coaching

Co-create. ​

>Does your community or organization work from eco-centrism?
>How can your community lead by following to develop a mutual aid network to address the polycrises together?
>Is your board or staff in need of resiliency support?

Network and Workshop Design

TEACHING

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"The development of knowledge comes from direct observation of the patterns in things.
Study the patterns in things and knowledge will arrive. Once knowledge has arrived you will be able to trust your intentions."
Confucius, The Great Learning

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​I go among trees

I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.

Then what is afraid of me comes
and lives a while in my sight.
What it fears in me leaves me,
and the fear of me leaves it.
It sings, and I hear its song.

Then what I am afraid of comes.
I live for a while in its sight.
What I fear in it leaves it,
and the fear of it leaves me.
It sings, and I hear its song.

After days of labor,
mute in my consternations,
I hear my song at last,
and I sing it. As we sing,
the day turns, the trees move.

by Wendell Berry. From "A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997" (University of California Press, 1999)

What kind of times are these

There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows
near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted
who disappeared into those shadows.

I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.

I won't tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods
meeting the unmarked strip of light--
ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise:
I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.

And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you
anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these
to have you listen at all, it's necessary
to talk about trees.

​by Adrienne Rich. From "Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995" (W. W. Norton and Company Inc., 1995)