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Culture Work Studios Culture Work Studios collaborates with organizations, businesses, and community leaders to transform our world.

Through strategy development, experiential trainings, and performance events, we support people to embody visionary solutions for change.

06/04/2026

Sometimes what drains us most isn’t the workload.

It’s the quiet misalignment we keep carrying alone. The tension we notice but don’t name. The “it’s just me” story we repeat until it becomes heavier than the issue itself.

Unspoken discomfort takes energy to hold. Naming it can feel risky, but it also shares the weight. It brings what’s hidden into relationship, where it can actually be worked with.

When we address tension sooner, work often gets easier sooner too. ✨

06/02/2026

It’s Tranquil Tuesday. 🌿

Take a moment to notice where your body is in contact with the earth. Your feet, your seat, your back. Let yourself feel that support a little more fully.

We spend so much time holding ourselves up and holding others up. Today is a reminder that you are also being held.

Just for a moment, soften into that. And if it feels right, say thank you. ✨

05/28/2026

Overfunctioning can look like leadership.

Getting everything done. Holding it all together. Being the one people rely on.

But often it’s something else. A learned pattern of control. A belief that if you perform well enough, everything will be okay.

I know it because it lives in me too. The “I have to.” The “I should.” The push to do more than is actually needed.

Shifting it doesn’t happen all at once. Sometimes it looks like asking for help when you know you could do it yourself. Sometimes it’s putting a limit on your time and letting something be enough.

Not perfect. Just enough.

Because you don’t have to prove your worth through overfunctioning. You’re already enough. ✨

When DEI is done well, it doesn’t just add practices to your organization. It changes how it feels to belong inside it.A...
05/27/2026

When DEI is done well, it doesn’t just add practices to your organization. It changes how it feels to belong inside it.

At Culture Work Studios, I work with teams to slow down and get curious together—through strategy sessions, coaching, and training—so decisions aren’t just responsive, but grounded in what people actually need and know.

DEI work can easily get stuck in systems and language that lose sight of people. Belonging brings us back. To whole people. Body, mind, and spirit. Not as a concept, but as a lived experience inside the work.

If this is something your organization is navigating, drop a comment or DM me. ✨

05/26/2026

A different kind of pause today. 🌬️

Notice the air around you. The temperature. The texture. Where it meets your skin—your face, your hands, even under your sleeves.

Nothing to change. Just paying attention to what’s already there.

Take a moment with it. Then tell me—what did you notice? ✨

05/22/2026

Quick fixes are tempting.

A single workshop. One conversation. Something to “solve” the tension and move on.

But conflict and trust don’t work that way.

The first conversation usually just scratches the surface. People are still testing the room. Still deciding if it’s actually safe to be honest.

Trust builds when people see that the conversation continues. That what they name doesn’t disappear. That they can come back and be met again.

Not all at once. But over time.

That’s what shifts a team. Not a quick fix, but the willingness to stay with it. ✨

Some feelings don’t resolve.They move.They shift shape.They ask to be felt all the way through.This month’s playlist sit...
05/21/2026

Some feelings don’t resolve.
They move.
They shift shape.
They ask to be felt all the way through.

This month’s playlist sits there.
Not rushing past anything.
Not trying to make it neat.

There’s tension.
Release.
A kind of honesty that doesn’t need to be explained.

I found myself returning to it in moments where the instinct was to push forward.
Instead, it asked me to stay.

To feel what’s here.
And then keep going from there.

Listen here 🎧 https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/feeling-through-may-2026/pl.u-4aVGS1rGq3

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Some feelings don’t resolve.They move.They shift shape.They ask to be felt all the way through.This month’s playlist sit...
05/21/2026

Some feelings don’t resolve.
They move.
They shift shape.
They ask to be felt all the way through.

This month’s playlist sits there.
Not rushing past anything.
Not trying to make it neat.

There’s tension.
Release.
A kind of honesty that doesn’t need to be explained.

I found myself returning to it in moments where the instinct was to push forward.
Instead, it asked me to stay.

To feel what’s here.
And then keep going from there.

Listen in our 🎧
CreativePractice

05/19/2026

A small reset for your day. 🌿

Move through your joints slowly—ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, wrists, neck. Gentle circles. No rush. Just noticing where your body might be holding on.

Sometimes it’s not about a big stretch. Just a little movement to remind your body it can soften.

If you try it, I’m curious—what shifted for you? ✨

When we talk about the future, it can feel distant. Abstract. Hard to grasp.But when we bring it into the everyday—the s...
05/18/2026

When we talk about the future, it can feel distant. Abstract. Hard to grasp.

But when we bring it into the everyday—the small, ordinary details—it becomes something we can actually feel. Something we can move toward.

In the Grief, Love, and Liberation: Honoring the Winding Path workshop, hosted by FORGE, those moments took shape in real time. Participants explored how grief, love, and liberation show up in lived experience—not just in theory.

In spaces like this, vision becomes tangible. People don’t just imagine differently—they begin to feel what’s possible.

Grateful for participants who lean into that kind of imagining.

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