Is it the call to a transition of language, location, or leadership? The tension of a new way wrestling its way with the old? The pressure of a communal vision trying to come through faster than your current structures can carry it?
That's where I come in.
I’m a relational technologist and my tool is the circle.
What I do —
As a circle-keeper and team facilitator, my work isn’t coaching, consulting, or conflict mediation, though it often holds pieces of all three.
I work with mission-driven communities, coalitions, and organizations at threshold moments when something significant is ending, emerging, or trying to be named.
Most teams think they have to start with strategy. A five-year plan, a roadmap, a set of next steps, but I've found that before strategic sessions are actually useful, a group needs to do something harder and more foundational: uncover the stories they're operating out of.
The communal story—where your team has come from, what it's been carrying, and what it believes about itself without knowing it—is what shapes every decision, every dynamic, every plan that does or doesn't take hold.
The truth is, the excavation of that story is difficult to do from the inside. A team is made up of individuals, each with their own stories and projections. When you're working closely with someone those dynamics are hard to see clearly. What helps is having someone operating from the outside who can observe what's moving in the room without being caught up in it.
That's what I bring: deep attention, intuitive synthesis, and the capacity to hear beneath the stated agenda and into the collective wisdom that's already present but hasn't yet found its voice.
After working with me, groups leave with clarity about the story they've been operating out of, language for what wants to come next, and a shared sense of how to move toward it.
This work is for your group if—
- You're navigating a leadership transition, a restructuring, or a shift in direction and want to honor it with integrity and not just strategy
- Something feels stuck or unnamed in your team dynamic and the usual tools haven't touched it
- You're in a visioning season and want the process to be rooted in your shared values, not just your loudest voices
- Your mission is liberatory but something in how the work gets done feels misaligned
- You can sense something important trying to come through your collective, but the pace of the work keeps getting in the way
- You want decision-making that is emergent and relational, not hierarchical and extractive
If even one of these rings true, you're probably standing at a threshold worth listening to.
What working together actually looks like—
Every container is shaped around your group's specific situation. Most engagements follow this rhythm:
Before we gather
I have an intake conversation with the leader, convener, or key members—whoever is holding the question for the group. I listen for what is and isn’t being named, getting a sense of the direction being held, the dynamics at play, and what the group most needs from our time together. From there I do some preliminary discernment around the questions I'll bring in.
The session itself (90–120 minutes, typically via Zoom)
I gather everyone into a circle, open with breath and intention, and begin offering questions inviting people to respond in whatever way is coming up for them.
From there I start pulling threads: noticing patterns, tracking what's moving beneath the surface, weaving toward potential next steps. I'm not steering toward a conclusion, I'm listening for what the group is already holding and helping it come to the surface.
Between sessions
I close each gathering with an experiment or a practice—something the group can sit with and try in the weeks ahead. This isn’t a strategic task, just something to help whatever story is emerging continue to surface. The point isn't to move a group toward a particular outcome, but to help them unearth the answers to the questions they're communally holding.
Recommended engagement
Some groups request a single gathering to orient around a vision or challenge, while others work with me seasonally across months to unfold a deeper inquiry.
That being said, four months is the minimum I'd suggest for this work to take root. Six to eight months is where it tends to open up. We meet once a month, and the space between sessions is part of the work.
A note on what makes this different—
The circle isn’t a meeting format, it's a place.
When we gather in circle our individual stories, communal stories, and collective stories have room to breathe. These are the stories that have been shaping your organization without ever being named. The circle is where those stories can be unraveled and rewoven, where new stories can begin to emerge.
In the circle truth-telling is welcomed, multiple timelines can be held at once, emergent leadership can root, and wisdom is sourced from the community.
I meet you in the circle as a companion and as an equal. Our collective power is distributed evenly among all who sit in the circle—no one holds more than another—as all our bodies hold their own unique knowing.
I don't come to the circle with answers or a pathway or a plan for what you should do. I come to help you excavate the new communal story that's already rising to the surface, so that you can build relations in new ways, and ultimately, build new worlds.
Hi, I’m Eréndira—
Over the past 15 years, I've sat in a lot of room—church halls, boardrooms, community organizing meetings, nonprofit retreats, and ministry teams zoom calls. What I've learned across all of it is this: most groups already hold the answers to the questions they're communally holding. What they're missing is a structure that allows that wisdom to surface and someone on the outside who can hear it without getting caught up in it.
Circle-keeping is some of my favorite liberation work. To watch a group trust their own knowing, to see the shedding of narratives—individual and communal—that are keeping you from a world-building imagination, to witness the pivots that promise transformative ways of Being and Becoming, it’s a special kind of sacred.
I’d be honored to enter the circle with you and your team.
Investment—
I use a values-based pricing structure that reflects the depth, preparation, and energetic labor involved.
If your organization is grant-funded, these ranges can support your budget planning. Transparent estimates are always provided in advance. If you're part of a grassroots or under-resourced community, please reach out—I always welcome a conversation about what's possible.
Let's talk about what your group needs—
The best place to start is a short conversation. Tell me a little about your organization, what you're navigating, and what you're hoping for. We'll go from there.
Testimonials—
“Working with Eréndira is like having not just a thought-partner but a spirit-partner, someone who not only listens but gives loving attention to all aspects of you, who notices the things you may not realize are close to the surface.” — Jen Raffensperger, UU Minister in Roanoke, VA
“Eréndira is tender, honest, humble and insightful. Her reflective accompaniment always offers empathy, surprise and hope. She brings words to things I have sometimes not quite grasped like she is weaving together things I say and then holding them up to say, ‘Here look.’ I am often surprised and touched by what is reflected back to me—the meaning and insights that are co-created through a sacred, shared space have been deeply meaningful. As one who is tending to her own inner journey, her presence is grounded, caring and powerful.” — Natalie M.
“The word ‘mirror’ comes to mind. Eréndira is a spiritual guide that helps peel back layers of bullshit, helps disrupt anything stagnant so any life that's stuck can begin to move again, and also helps nurture life. It's like she tends to the whole plant—the thorns, the stem, the roots, and the budding flowers—in a way where not one of these parts of the plant is more or less valuable then the others.” —Rachel A.
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