Walking Together Toward Transformation
Every organization has a story — shaped by purpose, people, and the communities they serve.
We partner with organizations and coalitions that center community, equity, and belonging and are ready to deepen their impact. Through deep listening and co-creation, we help align shared values with meaningful action.
Our Services
Facilitation & Training
We design and facilitate participatory learning spaces that help teams work across differences, navigate complexity, and engage communities with greater openness, respect, and accountability. Grounded in real-world experience, our sessions turn dialogue into action—strengthening trust, wellbeing, and shared leadership.
Focus areas:
- Building trust and alignment among diverse teams
- Strengthening multicultural and cross-sector collaboration
- Designing community-led listening and engagement processes
- Supporting teams to move from outreach to authentic engagement
- Visioning, mission development, and team alignment
Best suited for:
- Organizations and coalitions working across culture, language, or power
- Teams seeking to rebuild trust with communities they serve
- Initiatives requiring skilled, equity-centered facilitation
Strategy & Coaching
We partner with leaders and organizations to translate values into strategy and strategy into practice. Grounded in years of systems change work, we support leaders in navigating complexity, clarifying direction, and embedding community-informed approaches into decision-making, structures, and long-term impact.
Focus areas include:
- Cross-sector partnerships & shared decision-making with the community
- Strategic planning for sustainable, measurable results
- Integrating community voice into policies, practices, and governance
- Organizational culture assessment & transformation
- Policies and practices that promote wellbeing & belonging
- Cultivating psychological safety and collective care
Best suited for:
- Leaders navigating systems change
- Organizations seeking to operationalize equity
- Coalitions aligning diverse partners around shared goals
Speaking & Keynotes
Through storytelling that weaves lived experience and real-world practice, Tatiana invites audiences to explore how healing, equity, and systems change are deeply connected. Known for her warmth and authenticity, she creates spaces for reflection and action—strengthening leadership, shared purpose, and long-term commitment to transformation.
Topics often include:
- Healing Leadership: Reclaiming Wholeness and Purpose
- Building Bridges in Polarized Times
- Centering Community Voice & Wisdom in Systems Change
- Cultural Humility & the Power of Unlearning
- From Inclusion to Belonging in Practice
- From Burnout to Renewal: Sustaining the Work
International & Cross-Cultural Partnerships
Supporting community-rooted transformation across the Americas and beyond.
We partner with NGOs, grassroots initiatives, and cross-sector teams across borders to strengthen leadership, collaboration, and community wellbeing. Our work is grounded in lived experience, long-term relationships, and a deep understanding of how culture, history, and power shape systems.
Working across languages, identities, and institutions, we support partners to navigate complexity, build trust, and advance change that is locally rooted and systemically informed.
We support:
- Community-rooted leadership development
- Culturally grounded program and strategy design
- Cross-sector communication and collaboration
- Meaningful community participation in decisions and solutions
- Stronger organizational culture and staff wellbeing
- Evaluation guided by stories and outcomes
Let's Work Together
Tatiana and the Rising in Community team bring a unique blend of lived experience, healing practices and systems expertise that allows us to work fluently across cultures, sectors, and organizational contexts.
Our work is grounded in:
- Bilingual, intercultural facilitation and strategy expertise
- Deep roots in Latin America and lived experience within collectivist cultures
- Over 20 years supporting grassroots leaders, NGOs, public agencies, and institutions across the U.S.
- A healing-centered, culturally responsive approach to leadership and systems change
- The ability to bridge community wisdom with organizational strategy and institutional realities
Whether through speaking, training, facilitation, or strategic partnership, we walk alongside organizations and communities seeking meaningful and lasting change.