Programs & Offerings
Supporting communities, institutions, and practitioners in navigating complexity, rebuilding trust, and cultivating regenerative capacity.
Food For Us provides learning experiences and strategic accompaniment for people working at the intersections of food systems, democracy, community resilience, and ecological stewardship. Our offerings are designed for a moment of profound transition—when polarization is high, institutional trust is low, and communities need grounded, relational ways to move forward together.
Everything we offer is rooted in three commitments: material reality, shared responsibility, and the regeneration of local capacity.
Current Offerings
Speaking & Keynotes
Talks that illuminate the intersections of food, democracy, regeneration, and post-partisan practice.
Recent engagements include universities, foundations, community coalitions, and public forums.
Topics include:
Navigating polarization through shared material stakes
Regeneration as a cultural and ecological practice
Food systems as pathways for civic renewal
Community resilience during ecological and political disruption
The adjacent possible and thresholds of transformation
Workshops & Facilitated Learning
Custom workshops for organizations, coalitions, and community groups exploring:
Post-partisan practice in food and health
Regenerative governance and community agency
Working across worldview difference without abandoning boundaries
Rebuilding trust through material collaboration
Ecological literacy and re-materializing community understanding of food, water, and land
Formats include half-day, full-day, or multi-session learning journeys.
Consulting & Strategic Advising
Support for foundations, NGOs, universities, and coalitions seeking to:
Design regenerative and community-led food initiatives
Integrate cross-partisan strategies into program design
Develop bioregional approaches to food and health
Build internal capacity for complexity navigation
Strengthen governance and collaboration across diverse stakeholders
We work with partners who want to move beyond transactional engagement toward deep relationship-building and long-term capacity development.
Dialogue & Cross-Worldview Facilitation
We help groups work together on shared material stakes—soil, water, food, health—especially when trust is strained or worldviews diverge.
Our approach blends complexity science, warm data, mutual learning, and regenerative facilitation.
Applications include:
Rural–urban collaboration
Farmer–public health partnerships
Multi-stakeholder coalition-building
Community visioning processes
Cross-organizational retreats
In Development (coming in 2026)
Signature courses and learning cohorts currently being shaped with practitioners in the field.
The Post-Partisan Practice Intensive
A multi-week cohort exploring the seven core dimensions of post-partisan practice: material stakes, economic solidarity, discernment, triage, meaning-making, movement ecology, and building agency during state decline.
Regenerative Food Systems in a Time of Transition
A course for food system leaders examining ecological limits, cooperative economics, bioregional governance, and the future of food during civilizational threshold.
Food & Health Narratives for a Fragmented Public Sphere
A course for communicators, organizers, and public health practitioners seeking to speak across difference with dignity, accuracy, and relational coherence.
If your community or organization would like to pilot one of these offerings, we welcome conversation.
Let’s Explore What We Can Build Together
If your coalition, campus, congregation, foundation, or community is navigating complexity and looking for grounded, relational pathways forward, let’s connect.
Contact Nicole to begin a conversation.
