Jeanie Williams is your Wayfinder
I am a heart-centered facilitator, experienced designer, and creative educator.
I am a systems thinker, adaptive leader and solutions-oriented problem solver. This means I draw from all stakeholders when formulating strategies to help achieve a vision. I believe in the wisdom of the group, the power of collaboration, and the importance of skillful leadership.
I am a daughter, a sister, a granddaughter, and an aunt. I am a dancer, a naturalist, an artist, an SUP paddler, a ritualist, a thinker, and one who is practicing not knowing in her mind, but knowing in her body.
I am committed to clear and compassionate communication, conscious listening, thoughtful process, good questions, and collaboration. I help folks integrate their lived experience, information about the current situation, and their inner knowing, so that the vision and next right steps emerge.
My goal is to create the conditions for groups and individuals to reveal their most important concerns and discover their most liberating ideas, in order to find their most aligned path forward.
My thinking and practice are informed by many teachers, knowledge systems, and experiences.
Ecology, biology, the natural world, systems thinking, curriculum design, and placed based and experiential education were the foundation of my early career. I was an educator in the outdoors, and in high school and college classrooms where I worked with a wide variety of audiences.
Transformational coaching, somatic practice, systems change, grief work, organizational leadership and heart-centered facilitation have formed the constellation of my more recent work.
I grew up in Cadillac, Michigan and find that the Manistee National Forest of that area still deeply affects me. I later lived in the Green and White Mountains of New England for 12 years. Today I live on the shores of Lake Michigan in Suttons Bay, Michigan where I watch the water daily.
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