We are storied beings. I support Culture Bearers, artists, and mission-driven groups to clarify their narratives, honor cultural memory, and tell stories that move hearts and shift systems.

Ideal for: narrative design, storytelling frameworks, and storytelling cohort design.

Creating sacred space in professional settings. I facilitate gatherings that foster healing, clarity, and transformation—from community circles to institutional retreats. We also co-design values-rooted curriculum that blends cultural knowledge, activations, and participatory learning.

Ideal for: fellowship programs, cohort design, community dialogues, staff retreats.

Designing future-aligned roadmaps with soul. We work with teams to co-create strategic frameworks, organizational visions, and implementation plans rooted in values, community knowledge, and emergent possibility.

Ideal for: strategic planning, retreat facilitation, theory of change development.

We approach evaluation as a living, relational practice. Our methodology centers collaboration, reciprocity, and cultural integrity. Drawing from ancestral technologies and liberatory values, we transform evaluation into a space for shared reflection, collective learning, and intentional growth.

Through community-led feedback loops, we co-create evaluation frameworks that honor the wisdom of those most impacted. Evaluation becomes ceremony: spacious, adaptive, and rooted in care.

Ideal for: Organizations and initiatives seeking values-aligned evaluation rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing and community-centered praxis. Especially resonant for cultural and artist-led programs, fellowship or cohort models, and equity-driven initiatives ready to move beyond metrics toward meaning.

We treat program design as a living practice—one that listens deeply, adapts to collective rhythms, and nurtures sustainable ecosystems of care. Grounded in ancestral frameworks and community-centered learning, our approach weaves liberatory pedagogy, cultural context, and creative strategy to cultivate programs that are as visionary as they are rooted.

Ideal for:
Cohort-based learning models, equity-informed grantmaking programs, fellowships, creative leadership pipelines, emergent curriculum development, and ritual-centered educational design.

mariana is available to speak on liberatory programming, curriculum and evaluation design, ancestral futurism, cultural healing, and speculative practice.