Nonprofit teams right now are doing something remarkable — keeping the work alive through funding uncertainty, staffing changes, and pressure from every direction. They are surviving.

Survival is not the same as coherence. A team can be still standing and completely out of thread with each other — moving in parallel rather than together, operating on different assumptions about what matters, showing up without shared ground beneath them.

Re-coherence is an active process. It does not happen by waiting for things to stabilize. It happens when a team deliberately tends to it — naming what has shifted, finding the thread again, and choosing how to move forward together from where they actually are.

In practice, re-cohering starts small. It can be as simple as asking your team three questions out loud: What has changed for us in the last six months that we never named? Where are we operating on old agreements that no longer fit? What do we actually share right now — and what have we assumed we share without checking? You're not solving anything in that conversation. You're finding the thread again.

This question is worth bringing to a meeting. Not as a problem to solve — as something to sit with together.

Here's what I know about how coaches tend to relate to their own practice: we are far better at tending others than we are at tending ourselves.

Supervision is not about being evaluated or fixing what is wrong. It is about having a genuine container for the questions that live underneath the work — the ones that don't fit in peer consultation, that you carry between sessions, that shape who you are as a coach without you always knowing it.

This summer I'm building SuperVision Tuesdays — group supervision that will become a regular moment of connection. Some sessions will lean creative, some structured, all exploratory. The point is to tend your practice with intention rather than just keep it running.

The next group will begin Tuesday, August 11, at 9am Pacific. You sign up for a package of four sessions, we keep sessions as a small cohort, bringing a lens that meets where you are. A team coaching focused group is underway, and the next meeting is July 7.

If you've been meaning to give your own practice this kind of attention, this is the moment.

Many people will pick up the Liberating Structures Fieldbook up assuming it's a facilitation guide. It is — but I've loved it for so much more than that, ever since the original.

These structures hold the quiet, bigger idea: a presence, a way of being, something aligned with coaching.

The same structure can serve facilitation when you're guiding toward an outcome, or coaching when you're tending the ongoing fabric of a culture — or anything else where people need to engage authentically. The tool and the stance are different things, and this book lets you bring both.

This has been a strange and wonderful year in the garden.

The first fig came early.

The blueberries showed up all at once.

The apricots arrived before I was ready for them, a huge bounty of tiny golden fruit.

No viable nectarines this year, I didn't give the roots enough nutrients.

I've stopped expecting the season to behave, and started just paying attention to what's actually ripening. It suits the year.

​Let's do a coffee chat!​