harness your power for collective good
Consulting
LMR Consulting offers capacity building, process design, capital development and facilitation for mission driven organizations dedicated to changing systems and centering equity.
consulting services include:
Content, Campaign, and Program Strategy
Federal and Foundation Grant Writing
Interim Development Director
Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
Grants Management & Giving Circle Management
Equity, Process Design and Values Alignment
Cooperative and Consent-based Facilitation
Foundational Resilience Skills for Self-Leadership
We can help you feel confident that your projects and programs will have the intended impact over time, while authentically engaging community stakeholders and building the stability of your organization.
Somatic Leadership Coaching
live your best life.
Our assignment in this lifetime is liberating ourselves from the inside out.
We are living in a pivotal moment.
The world is on fire, climate anxiety is real. Racism is killing the planet. And we have this lifetime to address it.
But so many of us - all of us? - struggle with anxiety, stress, body image, distraction, self-confidence, relationship conflict and avoidance of feelings.
We feel stuck, and also worried. And this stuckness is holding each of us back from healing and making the change that is needed.
The good news is: all of us have within us what we need to heal ourselves.
I use neuroscience, psychology and embodiment to get you from stuck to realizing your dreams.
Transformation - the stages of growing from the chrysalis to the butterfly - may feel challenging but it is the most worthy effort.
For your own liberation and for our collective liberation, we start with love, self-compassion and fundamental body-based practices for resourcing your nervous system.
These self-leadership skills lead to the feeling of being an alive, present and alert human with vital life-force energy. Freedom.
Are you rooted in your own resilience?
“Human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. The healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening—a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation.”
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing (SE) gently, effectively and quickly trains your body and mind to self-regulate and resolve stress and trauma. Somatic Experiencing shifts fight, flight, freeze and fawn into resilience and power.
A Somatic Experiencing Practioner (SEP) helps restore the natural self correcting, self-regulating mechanisms of the human nervous system to heal trauma and chronic stress and tap into your innate resilience.
Unlike many approaches, SE practioners work directly with the nervous system. This does not require you to talk about your history or "issues" over and over. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics. SE has been helping individuals find release and healing from trauma and stress for more than five decades.
These skills, when applied to work or school or projects or activism or every day life and culture, can increase our self-awareness, decrease our stress levels, and enable us to work through situations with greater ease. Somatic Experiencing is what gives us the energy to change the world.
People create systems.
People change systems.
It all has to start with us.
This work will change your life.
Book a
session today
Learn to befriend your nervous system for stress recovery and liberation
and
feel the sense of empowerment that comes with embodied knowing how very resilient and courageous you really are.
Discover what it feels like to live from a resourced, self-confident, available, compassionate and grounded place.
Book a Somatic Experiencing Session
MISSION
To help people build capacity, practice resilience,
and center equity so we can
transform the world.
Mother, eco-feminist, entrepreneur, coach, solutionary…
Laura M. Ridenour (she/they) is a consultant, writer, and a resilience coach with 20+ years experience in the nonprofit sector and a lifetime of experience in food movements.
Laura was born in Detroit, Michigan, but spent most of her childhood traveling, either with her parents or between her parents respective homes - one in a 1,200 person intentional farm comunity in rural Tennessee and the other in urban Santa Cruz, California. Both homes were rooted in activism, ecofeminism and environmentalism. Her ancestors came to North America from England, Germany, Ireland, and Poland. She currently lives with her young son on the present day and ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish People, also know as Bellingham, Washington.
Laura has extensive experience in marketing and community engagement, beginning in her teen years as an environmental activist and helping to market her family’s food business. For over a decade she focused on economic and community development with farm and food-based businesses. She founded the EatLocalFirst.org campaign, and food policy councils and campaigns outside of Washington. She co-founded the Farm Fund’s Revolving Loan, as well as the Whatcom Food Network. Laura is the co-author of the 8th edition of the 196-page Washington State Small Farm Direct Marketing Guide.
Laura is adept at group process and facilitating practices for equity, inclusion, and power sharing - such as liberating structures (LS design) in online and in-person formats, and bringing holocracy and consent-based governance to the establishment of the North American Food Systems Network.
Laura has a M.A. in Sociology of Food and Agriculture with a focus on qualitative methods, adult transformational experiences and human dimensions of disaster and recovery, as well as a B.A. in Food Systems and Social Change. Laura also holds certificates in Ecological Horticulture and in Integrative Somatic Trauma Healing Therapy, is a Mind-Body Coach, and is in the advanced year of Somatic Experiencing (SE) training.
