Creative Consulting & Project Development

I carry a multifaceted and expansive capability to support new projects, initiatives and visions. I deeply value and trust the relationships that are cultivated through showing up as a deep listener. My role as a consultant is one where I feel at my brightest and most excited, to give shape to what still might feel like an elusive vision.

All to say, I love doing this work! 

My Offerings as a Consultant

By braiding together my experiences in community building and creative editorial direction, I can support you in:

  • Seed project development

  • Creative project consultation

  • Developing a values driven strategic communication strategy and plan

  • Aligning your organization or business with Spiritual Ecology based values

What Do You Need Support With?

 
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Seed Project Development

For anyone who is looking to get a new idea down on paper or take the next steps on an initiative, I offer project development starting at the seed level!

This entails a detailed walk through of relevant methodologies that will support you in laying the foundation for what you are wanting to create, alongside clear steps for how to do it.

Whether you are creating new programming, a new organization or want to turn a hobby into something more, I can help you chart and find your way forward.

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Creative project consultation

This is a great option if you have already set the foundation for a new initiative. Creative project consulting with me can look like:

  • Refining an initiative

  • Having periodic check-ins while new programming unrolls

  • Brainstorming

  • Receiving support with holding a meta perspective so that emergence can unfold

 
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Developing a communication strategy and plan

This is some of my favorite work to do as I love creative storytelling! How you tell your story in a fast paced world while keeping integrity at the core takes planning, critical thinking and a clear understanding of how to work with the mediums we have access to.

Using my experience of ten years in public storytelling, I offer a few different avenues when it comes to developing a comprehensive and community orientated communication plan. I use the word community because I believe that a quality communication plan should always be orientated toward collaboration and mutual support.

I can:

  • Help you map out your network and create points of connection for partnerships and mutual amplification

  • Support you in facilitating you or your team in putting together a communications strategy, including being available for periodic check-ins during its initial phase of implementation

  • Train you and your team in the basics of social media, online meetings and traditional media

  • Provide a briefing to you on the ethics of how to engage online

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Aligning your organization or project with Spiritual Ecology based values

Spiritual Ecology (SE) is a field of study and practice that recognizes the sacred in the living earth and in our everyday lives. Values like Reverence, Interconnectedness, Compassion, Stewardship and Service are at its core.

I have been exploring and creating within this field for over four years and feel excited to provide this niche offering to initiatives that desire to ground their work through a lens of Spiritual Ecology. Over the years I have observed that initiatives that hold their values central to their work tend toward success through creating a culture of integrity that collaborators and employees feel good about engaging in. 

Aligning your initiative with values that guide the way you want to work and the world you want to live into is an important yet often overlooked process. This service can be applied to either:

  • A brand new initiative

    or

  • An existing initiative by revisiting core intentions and charting a refreshed version forward

Sliding Scale Hourly Consulting Rates

How to know what to pay?

Reflect on your entities budget. If you have an operating budget of $100k or less situate yourself on the lower end of my rates scale. If you have a budget of at least $300k you are in the middle range. $500k or higher, please pay the higher rate or consider if you can pay more. Higher paying clients make it possible for me to offer lower rates or waive fees for youth led and/or non-profit organizations with smaller budgets.

*These rates are a starting point and if you need to pay less I would still love to be in conversation with you.


Seed Project Development

$70 - $200 an hr

Creative Project Consultation

$70 - $200 and hr

Communications Plan & Strategy

$70 - $200 an hr

Aligning with SE Values

$70 - $150 an hr

 

*Please note this rate does not include prep time which has a flat rate of $50 an hour.

Praise

“Kailea has been indispensable as a thought partner in visioning and launching the first cohort of our paid internship program for youth to explore the intersections of climate justice and spiritual ecology. Her gifts of deep listening, personal experience and capacity for continuous adaptation in the midst of the pandemic undoubtedly made our program richer for the students who participated.”

— Parker Bowling, Earth and Spirit Center