Aaron Goggans
I am a writer and architect of the future, challenging the premises of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy by innovating new ways to be in the world.
I offer coaching, thought partnership and capacity building to those who seek more liberation in their lives and praxis.
My work is informed by movement theory, practice and experience of 20 years.
About
Aaron Goggans (he/they) is a writer, facilitator, organizer, and architect of the future, challenging the premises of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy by innovating new ways to be in the world.
Currently based in his home-state of Colorado, he has been profoundly shaped by the years he spent as an housing organizer on the South-Side of Chicago and as BLM organizer in D.C. as well as his youth as an interfaith organizer through the local Baha’t community.
Aaron hopes to play his part in shifting the context through which we organize for collective liberation.
Services
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I offer thought partnership and coaching on fixed rate for foundations and sliding scale if orgs are paying out of their budget. For individuals we have a Capitalism Adjustment Score [CAS] we use.
I offer two tiers of safety and wellness services, 1. for thought partnership and coaching that requires no preparation work or follow up and 2. for more traditional consulting that requires preparation and follow up. For foundations, the rate for tier one is $300 and for tier 2 it's $350 per hour.
Safety & Wellness Thought Partnership: Supporting organizations in thinking holistically about their safety and wellness policies. This includes walking client through any of WildSeed’s tools, answering any implementation questions that arise, giving advice to particular problems that arise
Liberatory Organizational Development Thought Partnership:
Safety and Wellness Assessment: Assessing organizational preparedness, culture, risk and vulnerability through the lens of safety, wellness and belonging. Assessment includes interviews with staff and key stakeholders in addition to a review of organizational policies. Comes with policy, procedure and organizational cultural recommendations.
Wellness Program Development: Supporting organizations in developing wellness programs for their staff, including policy development and referral to vendors
Support Team Set Up: Helping organizations set up support teams for an employee in crisis. Support teams work with people in crises and clinicians to develop and implement wellness plans. This includes needs assessment, training for the support team and support facilitating the meetings.
Safety Assistance Team Development: Supporting organizations designing and implementing safety, security and wellness response teams. This includes policy development, training, vendor referral and initial facilitation support.
Organizational Crisis Care: Comprehensive Wellness and Safety support for an organization after crises. This includes trauma informed space holding for groups, one-on-one coaching, somatic experiencing and energy healing sessions as well as conflict transformation.
Approach
I utilize both a movement lens and systems lens for my work in safety and organizational development.
The movement lens helps me understand power and positionality as motive forces within organizations and a systems lens helps me map that power in relationships to history, meaning making and the organizational environment.
I give particular attention to methods that what we think of as “best practices” are informed by the logic of oppression and capital and seek to help clients build more liberatory tools to achieve their goals.
Relevant Experiences and Background
I have over 20 years of experience in organizing, having worked as a community, housing, labor and coalition organizer with different organizations in Colorado, Chicago and D.C. I also have over 15 years of experience as a facilitator. Both of these skills were honed in movement spaces as a co-instagator of the D.C chapter of BLM. I also co-founded a worker owned cooperative in which I spent 4 years working on organizational development and executive coaching as a consultant.
Why I Do This Work
I believe that a better, more just world and ways of being are possible in the here and now. I also believe that those was of being can often be more affected ways to meet our collective needs. To find these new ways of being and collaborating we need to experiment and think outside of the box. We need to explore where theory meets concrete human needs. I believe that the work of supporting people, organizations and networks in being more free is essential to the work of building liberation.
Contact Info
Email: aarongoggans@wildseedsociety.com
Website: www.wildseedsociety.com
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Location: Colorado, USA
