Hello Lavender reader!
I’m Ash, and I am so happy you found me! Read on to learn about my coaching practice — and be sure to mention LAVENDER during your free first coaching call for a queer-to-queer discount.
Ash Chudgar
New year, same you! 🎉 Some plural anti-resolutions for a mellower start to so-called 2024
The beginning of a new year can be an exhausting period of anxious urgency that ends, predictably, in failure and remorse. How unpleasant! Here are some ways that living more plurally can help you feel more comfy at the beginning of the arbitrary slice of time we call “2024.”
From Shame to Liberation
If you’re troubled by deep feelings of shame, you’re not alone — and together, we can heal and get free. This spring, bring your shame to a warm and supportive facilitated group, where we’ll all work towards liberation and healing together. Friday evenings, online, starting April 5.
Join me in a Year of Living Plurally
In 2024, some friends and I are trying an experiment in bucking American individualism: a “Year of Living Plurally.” Every week or so, I’m going to share some reflections about how multiplicity, diversity, and community show up in our daily lives and the culture around us. Want to come along?
Happy 2024! ✨🪩✨ Welcome to a Year of Living Plurally
In 2024, Ash's newsletter is an experiment: a “Year of Living Plurally.” Every week or so, I’m going to share some reflections about how multiplicity, diversity, and community show up in our daily lives and the culture around us.
Using Internal Family Systems in nonprofit work — or, DEI from the inside out
The Internal Family Systems model can bring deeper understanding, more compassionate communication, and greater harmony to bigger human systems — like nonprofits and the communities they serve. This workshop uses IFS to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion “from the inside out.”
How one school district meets harm with repair
As our national life becomes more polarized, educators need new ways to respond to acts of hatred in their school communities. Leaders at Osseo Area Schools created a clear, just, and replicable process for responding to such incidents with healing and repair. Here’s how.