Services

Gibbous Phase is a justice-oriented consulting firm focused on supporting individuals, organizations, and businesses who are more than halfway (>1/2) there in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of organizational strategies and initiatives. Inspired by nature and the phases of the moon, we will get you through that home stretch and beyond. We are systems and infrastructure specialists with specific expertise in collaboratives and collective impact movements.

Copyright Antonio Cidadao.

Call on Gibbous Phase for the following:

  • Mission/Vision

  • Systems/Infrastructure

  • Brand Conceptualization

  • Principles/Values

  • Dynamic Consensus

  • Communications

  • Culture

  • Strategy

  • Facilitation

  • Belonging

  • ROUND

round

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

-Empedocles

ROUND facilitates circles. From corporate to non-profit, educational, religious, and non-denominational - all settings and spaces present the opportunity to experience the benefits of the healing power of circles and gathering in the round. 

MISSION

To create circles bridging the gap of understanding between our differences: age, race, gender, culture, ethnicity, sex/gender/ sexual identity, religion, and class in order to foster oneness – uniting all humanity in community through circle.

HOW

This is done through the practice of Council, and other creative expressions like, but not limited to: writing, music, multi-media, meditation, and poetry. We circle. We circle with one another around topics and issues. We circle around life and living. We sit in the round.

COUNCIL

A group coming together to consult, deliberate, and/or make decisions.

An age old practice of the Native American and Native/Indigenous peoples everywhere who gather in circle for candid and heartfelt conversations with the goals of: connecting and building community, coming to resolutions, being open to the thoughts and opinions of those who may not think or look like you, allowing everyone an opportunity to be heard, felt, and seen without interruption.

OFFERINGS

EXPERIENCE – Introduce ROUND to your work or group as an offering of professional and personal development. You choose the theme/topic/issue and leave the rest to us. We will come to your location and facilitate a 2-hour experience.

PRACTICE – For a set period of time, 4-6 weeks, 1 day a week, for 2 hours. We co-collaborate on the themes/topics/issues for each week allowing you the opportunity to practice the experience.

CULTURE – Shift the culture of your workplace or group. Book for the year and make this practice available to your employees, classroom and/or group weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

- Albert Schweitzer

belonging

Embracing the Intricacy & Nuance of Our Personal and Collective Stories

There are many ways to explore belonging with Gibbous Phase. Dr. Leanne Whitney and I invite you to consider integrating this two-and-half-day co-collaboration into your organization, business, or institution. We are privileged to offer our co-facilitation expertise to tailor this engagement to your specific needs, whether it be for board and staff retreats or for those dedicated to fostering a workplace culture centered around belonging. Let us embark on this transformative journey together, simply because fostering belonging is paramount to our collective growth and well-being.

In many cases in psychiatry, the patient who comes to us has a story that is not told, and which as a rule no one knows of. To my mind, therapy only really begins after that investigation of that wholly personal story. It is the patient’s secret, the rock against which he is shattered. If I know his secret story, I have a key to the treatment. … In therapy the problem is always the whole person, never the symptom alone. We must ask questions which challenge the whole personality.

- Jung, MDR, Chapter IV

Carl Jung understood the relative value of science and had a deep appreciation for the inner world, especially as it relates to the numinous. In his autobiography, Jung undertook the challenge of sharing his personal myth. He did not concern himself with whether or not the stories were ‘true.’


In 1980 (two decades after Jung’s passing in 1961), historian and activist Howard Zinn published, A People’s History of the United States. Zinn told the history of the United States not just through the lens of the oppressor, but also of the oppressed, demonstrating how much truth and fact do matter. Four decades later truth has seemingly taken on a whole new meaning. With the rise of social media and the attention economy, our minds have literally been hijacked by algorithms and uncompromising dark players in their mission of ‘power over’ rather than ‘power with’. In addition, the scientists and scientific disciplines that have been open to inquiry about the neural correlates of spirituality as well as the scientific basis of story have made significant strides in their endeavors.

OFFERING

In this workshop, we will explore the complexity of truth within us and between us, and examine the distinctions between cohesive and coherent narratives. While cohesive narratives hold something together tightly, these stories can result in a fundamentalist rigidity without integration of past, present, or future. Coherent narratives, on the other hand, fluidly lend themselves to adaptive change. Narratives of true integration are stories that hold well both within and between.