Woven Studios is the special team at the Nest dedicated to working with clients to help them achieve their goals.

strategic
facilitation

Our mindful facilitation guides mission-driven teams from complex ideas to actionable results and meaningful connections.

Strategic Facilitation is a process of purposefully and diligently aligning your practices with your goals and values. Strategic Facilitation is a method to help you walk your talk, with guidance and support!

facilitation
services

our areas
of expertise

We bring a focused approach to fields and topics such as:

  • food justice

  • community arts

  • restorative justice

  • somatics

  • leadership development

  • non-profit management

  • design & branding

  • facilitation coaching

meet the
facilitators

We curate a project-specific team from our dynamic network of expert facilitators and trusted partners. This ensures your team has the exact skills needed —from business management and marketing to project management—for a successful experience.

Leigh Robbie Gaymon-Jones

Leigh Robbie’s work is informed by over a decade of experience connecting communities to community, art land, and food, and nearly 2 decades of experience as a trained facilitator. Her facilitation is greatly influenced by years spent leading and learning alongside teenagers in youth farming organizations, directing community food projects, and teaching in youth and adult classrooms. As the Chief Creative Officer of The Nest, Leigh Robbie brings equal parts experience and enthusiasm to her curation and leadership of the Woven Studios strategic planning and facilitation team.

Facilitator, Brand Strategist, Program Strategist, Strategic Planner

Dr. Omi Osun
Joni L. Jones

Omi’s facilitation is guided by Black Feminist principles and theatrical jazz aesthetics. She has conducted workshops for Solidaire Network, The Ford Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Educafro (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Thousand Currents, the Institute on Governance and Democracy (Ile-Ife, Nigeria), and a host of academic institutions. Omi holds a Ph.D. from New York University, and an Embodied Social Justice Certificate from Transformative Change. Omi’s intergenerational leadership and depth of experience across fields of social justice provide invaluable frameworks for strategic planning processes with our clients.

Facilitator, Strategic Advisor , Cultural Strategist

Brand & SEO Strategist

Valeria
Esqueda

Valeria is a dedicated earth worker, seed saver, and innovator committed to the practice of interdependence. Her work as a facilitator is deeply informed by her background in communications, grassroots organizing, climate justice, and agro-ecology. Bringing a collaborative spirit and creative approach, she guides groups through dynamic discussions and helps them articulate their vision. She thrives on helping people turn these concepts into tangible outcomes, and ensuring their message is clear and their progress is meaningful.

Anchal
Bibra

Shana
Turner

Kat
Wentworth

Anchal has years of experience facilitating different stakeholders through processes like development strategy, communications strategy and event planning. While at Castanea Fellowship, Anchal led the Executive Director and Executive Communications Committee through communications strategy planning and adoption process. While at Minnow, Anchal designed and implemented the organization’s grassroots funding strategy and engaged the Minnow community to mobilize resources. And while at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, she shepherded the organization towards the creation of Major Donors strategy for 2020-2022. Anchal brings a deep understanding of food systems and organizational systems to our strategic planning sessions with clients, weaving together skills in fundraising, communications, and design to support organizations rooted in social justice values.

Facilitator, Communications Strategist

Kat is a strategic leader with a versatile skill set and a broad perspective. She draws on 15 years as Owner/CEO of an educational services company, which sold in 2016 and is still thriving. She has also led a parallel 20+ year career at the University of California in various roles within research and operations. She has spent the last 3+ years as the Director of Strategy and Transformation at a global project management consultancy. Kat holds a Master of Business Administration and certifications in Project Management,Prosci Organizational Change Management, and a Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt. She brings a strong foundation in organizational principles and strategic thinking that help our clients develop innovative strategies to drive positive change and build supportive structures.

Facilitator, Key Results Measurement Manager, Strategic Planner

Shana holds twenty-five years of stewarding organizations through processes that map ways toward collective visions. Her experience has been focused on justice and cultural organizing, infrastructure development, program and curriculum design, cooperative economics, participatory planning and evaluation, team management, communications, event planning, and collective learning through a popular education praxis. Shana’s deep and wide background in strategic planning and organizational design gives our clients access to a range of methodologies and tactics to support their growth and strategic development.

Facilitator, Strategic Advisor, Strategic Planner

your bold vision,
our creative expertise!

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Check out a recent case study showcasing how we revived our client’s brand and made their marketing goals through strong design. Or scroll through our portfolio to learn more about how our full-service studio addresses the needs of impact-driven businesses and organizations. 

radical possibilities

built on cultural strategy

radical possibilities ⌓ built on cultural strategy ⌓

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