CONSULTING

Cool Tools -  We can talk about and explore helpful ideas to enhance our journeys and see ways to integrate them with our lives.  💭.  📣

Consultant - People can consult with me on any of the areas that I've mentioned.  

Dueling with Diagnosis  or I've Been Diagnosed, Now What? -  We are human beings first and our diagnosis is just part of our journey in the context of a larger culture.  We can talk about and explore the role of diagnosis in our lives and our living our lives the way we want to.

Family Dynamics or Family of Ideas -  We can talk about and explore positive examples of family dynamics .  I can reference experiences in my own life which includes but isn't limited to my parents modeling a good divorce, joint custody, and other various supportive examples, thoughts, feelings, and reflections. 👪

Got Autism?  I do -  Reflecting on my relationship with Autism.  I've been diagnosed with autism, now what?  I'm the same person that I've always been. 

Hate'll eat you like a Thanksgiving dinner - Reflecting on a conversation between 2 people whose lives had intersected decades before.  They were both involved with The Greensboro Massacre.  During The Greensboro Massacre, both present, one of them was in 2 hate groups (Klan and Nazis) and was one of the shooters, that resulted in the deaths of 5 people.  One of the people killed was my stepfather and I was a friend to another person who was killed.  Both of us had shifted with our journeys when we met.  We shared some thoughts and feelings about, "hate, anger, and the other."  One of the things that Roland Wayne Wood said as he reflected on his journey was, "hate'll eat you like a thanksgiving dinner."  I described my journey as, "my anger and hatred ate me alive until there wasn't anything left except a small inner voice that told me that the only thing that was happening was getting lost in negative place that felt like a black hole.  At one point I realized that I can't change the past.  But the best thing that I can do is to learn from it as much as possible, to understand as much as possible.  So, I changed my black hole, to a garden that I try to cultivate constructive ways of being and nurture them."

Homeless but not hopeless or They gave me a shelter, I got a shelter and village - I can reflect on my housing experiences which include being evicted and living in a homeless shelter and how it relates to the big picture in terms of people trying to meet our needs.  🏠

I feel my individual mortality and a collective immortality -  I came to that feeling after seeing The Historical Marker for the Greensboro Massacre and reflecting on my thoughts, feelings, and experiences related to The Greensboro Massacre.  I can share some perspectives from seeing various historical markers including The Greensboro Massacre and reflecting on my relationships and understanding level of looking at the various markers, with some ignorance and some awareness.

I'm not just a Social Worker, I'm a Client too - Reflecting on both perspectives and how they relate to our liberation.  

I've Been Schooled -  I can share lessons, reflections, etc. from some of my experiences working with students of various ages, including elementary.  🏫

I've Got a Healing - We can explore various ways of healing and help find ways to integrate them into our lives.

I possessed a car, a car possessed me, and then my car got repossessed - I can reflect on my experiences with a car, it getting repossessed, and meeting transportation needs in the context of people trying to meet our transportation needs.  🚗

Liberation Formula or Social Construction Worker - We can explore a formula and process of concrete steps to help with increasing our self-awareness in the context of social constructs and finds ways to reclaim our authentic selves.

Lifelines or From Suicide to Susan by My Side or From the Impersonal to In person Al - I can reflect on some of my experiences of the impersonal human service system as it relates to my receiving the information and lifelines that I've had in terms of supportive people.

Lifeus Momentus - I can share some of my life's moments which have stood out for me and we can explore them in the context of learning and healing in our lives.

Meeting Our Needs. 💲. 💸

Till Debt Do Us Part - Divorcing Ourselves from a Money System and Becoming Engaged with Sustainable Systems or Wanted- Debt or Alive - We can talk about the debt based money system, how it affects our lives, and ways or things we can do to meet our needs without money.
Each according to need and ability -  We can explore the money system and meeting our needs and relating to our liberation.

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Perspectives – I want to borrow your view finder, reflecting on lessons from November 3rd, everyone has pieces and every perspective is valuable in the context of the whole picture, news you can use.

Professional Confessional - We can talk about how the capitalist system is set up and how we get sucked in to being complicit with harmful ways of being as part of a or in the context of a culture.  I can identify or clarify specific examples that I'm aware of in my life like education and social work.  We can relate these to restorative justice.  I can apologize for my harmful things that I might have done.  We can identify positive things that are happening and ways that we can make a shift and move things forward.

Restorative Justice Tours -  People are good at our core being. Ideas can be helpful or harmful. We’ve done harm and we’ve been harmed. We need to address all of the harm for all of our learning and healing. We need to express ourselves and receive each other authentically and live our lives by our own descriptions. This is an open invitation to explore with me if any of that resonates with you, if and when your spirit moves you. I’m prepared to share my thoughts and/or listen and receive you as an individual in the context of a collective. For clarity, please let me know what you want.

Self - Expression Badge – I can talk about the origin and evolution of my self-expression badge, what it is, and my relationship with it.  We can talk about a self-expression badge and/or related things to enhance our lives.   📛

Shift Happens -  We can talk about and explore examples and situations of going from where we are to making a shift to where we want to be.  Sometimes, we want to make a shift, either with specific relationships or our being in general. 

Tell me a funny story -  I can share some funny moments with you, including with students that I've worked with and many other moments.  📖

Tell me a story - experiencing November 3rd, GTRC, etc.  📖

There's an organ donor in my family - An organ donor gave an ultimate gift to a family member.  I'll be forever grateful.  We can talk about that experience from different perspectives. 

The systems aren't appealing, but I am or The Systems are appalling and I'm appealing or Hearings and hearing aids - Reflecting on hearings and appeals as a graduate student in social work and client trying to meet my needs by accessing food and medical support.

Welcome to planet ODAR - I'm happy to share anything about my experience applying for and navigating food stamps, Medicaid and Disability.  It’s important to know that there might be some patterns with individuals because there are different factors and a combination of factors.  I can share some thoughts in general.  But, it might be more helpful with specific questions or a framework of questions.  We can talk about things and see.

Who owns my story - Reflecting on the idea about authority and other people making decisions about our lives and forcing a narrative on us by an oppressive dominant culture.  Our stories are hijacked by someone else's description or how they choose to tell our stories which effects the quality of our lives.