Rain Crow Consulting
“Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-kow-kowp-kowp-kowp…”
The yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) is a storied bird. Legend has it that the deep, guttural calls of the “rain crow” – heard during hot summer weather – signal, if not summon, the arrival of stormy weather—storms that bring life-giving rain. The crops are saved. People rejoice—give thanks.
The rain crow is a messenger between worlds, a harbinger of change, an embodiment of resilience and reciprocity. The rain crow is voices raised to narrate hardship and the generative potential therein.
Rain Crow Consulting guides individuals and groups who want to explore their stories at depth, who want to make an offering of their stories, and who believe in the power of story to bring generative change.
Rain Crow Consulting helps environmental, social justice, and community-based organizations find their voice and tell their stories—relationally, respectfully, restoratively—in service of life-honoring systems. We help organizations explore and examine their storied roots, fostering wisdom and transformation. We enable organizations to rewrite, re-narrate, and realign their stories, turning the page to a new chapter, with a new verse—a message urgently needed by the people of a parched world.
Services
Individual Mentorship
Individual mentorship is a co-creative process. We explore stories old and new and in the mysterious in-between. They are literal and metaphoric. Together, we converse with the muses, narrators, and the emergent characters. We track unfolding conversations. This mentorship isn’t about how you place a comma; it’s about how you place yourself.
Group Guiding
Group guiding, often offered in nature-based settings, provides an opportunity for story weaving, unweaving, and reweaving. Programs are relational, thematic, and emergent.
Organizational Management
Writing
Your story needs to be told. It needs to be heard. It needs to change the world. Let’s craft and disseminate your story—through the scientific literature, popular press, policy guidance, media, and the arts.
Public Speaking
Bring transformative story to and through your organization—whether it’s a keynote address, formal dinner, seminar, or group retreat. On behalf of your organization, I’ll tell you a story. You’ll feel it.
Executive Coaching
As an organizational leader, you are both a storyteller and a story keeper. Do you know what the story is? How does it show up in your brand, your mission? What is your story calling in? What is its generative potential? Together, we can explore the story you hold and how it is told.
Workshop & Retreat Facilitation
Let’s collectively explore the story of your brand, your mission, your strategic plan, your organizational structure, and your outputs. What is the story you are telling as an organization? Who is narrating the story? Is it the story you want to be telling? Is it the best choice of narrator? Is there another story, another voice emerging?
Group Training
Learn how to invoke and attune to stories. Learn how to listen to stories embedded in words and without words. Learn how to create the stories told within and by your organization.
Conflict Transformation
There’s more than one side to every story—reflecting multiple timeframes, viewpoints, and narrators. Let’s explore the storied root of organizational conflict. What is being said between the lines, at the edges of the page?
Photo: Yellow-billed cuckoo by Anthony Martin