Our Offerings

Change Elemental meets this and every moment in ways that plant and grow the seeds of a future we want—a future of interdependence and mutual thriving—and with the understanding that, as movements, we need to tend to four things:¹

Block: defend and protect people, communities, policies, rights, etc.
Believe: vision and dream the future we want, tend to imagination and creativity, and be guided by it daily.
Build: bridge and deepen relationships with each other, unusual partners, and those not yet engaged in our movements, working together to build liberating alternatives to systems that never served us.
Be: tend to our well-being individually and collectively, embracing practices of liberation such that we are in continuous connection with our simultaneous stories/wisdom, our bodies, source, and our emotions (practices of liberation evolved from the work of Monica Dennis).

While we need all of this, we don’t all need to be doing everything nor can we be. We need to be working in deeper relationship with our partners, understanding our movement roles, and focusing on the things we can do well while respecting the value of the combined approaches and ways forward. And we must remember that we all need access to our dreams and to our well-being, even if those are not our primary strategies.

We meet our client partners with the clarity needed to navigate complexity and respond from vision in chaos. In partnership with leaders, organizations, networks, and funders, we explore what is needed to bring about the world we want. Together, we work to overcome habits and practices that hold us back, and we craft creative, nimble, and authentic strategies for change. We ground our offerings in the essential elements of transformational change.

¹Extending from the Block & Build framework articulated by Max Elbaum in Convergence Magazine in 2023, expanded on in the Convergence Block & Build Syllabus compiled and shared in 2024, and updated in the 2025 syllabus.

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Transformative Strategy in Chaos & Complexity

We work with our partners to develop strategic frameworks that support clarity in complexity and visionary response in chaos, and to cultivate cultures of strategic thinking, learning, and adaptation within their organizations, foundations, and networks.

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Values-Aligned Culture

We support leaders, organizations, foundations, and networks in cultivating cultures grounded in interdependence and sovereignty, where liberating practices and values guide structures, operations, leadership, and ways of working. These in-depth processes are rooted in liberatory practice, centering race and other forms of cultural difference.

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Leadership, Governance & Coaching

We partner with organizations, foundations, and networks to develop and support individual and team leadership at multiple levels, to clarify roles and responsibilities, define or re-invent decision-making processes, and increase capacity to build and share power across difference in ways that advance mission.

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Interdependent Networks

We nurture emerging and evolving networks driven by changemakers across issues, movements, and sectors to find authentic ways of generating power greater than the sum of their parts.

Liberated Finance

We support nonprofits in aligning financial strategy with organizational values by strengthening systems, embedding liberatory practices, and offering interim financial leadership to foster collective, sustainable stewardship.

Learning & Evaluation

We design, facilitate, and participate in learning and evaluation projects, communities of practice, and research engagements within organizations and across movements that center dialogue, experimentation, storytelling, and active learning.

Prefiguring Futures Lab

The Prefiguring Futures Lab is a generator for power with and power within (and visionary uses of power over)—for the be-how and know-how of advancing liberation and sovereignty. Rooted in the 5 Elements of Liberatory Transformation, it provides experiences, experiments, and practices, as well as some resources and tools, for tending to the being and doing of prefiguring liberation.

“[Change Elemental] knows when to push and when to listen, knows when to hold us as a team and as individuals, and how to support us to move towards making the decisions we need to make.”
Jamie Beran, Bend the Arc

Equity & Innovation Fund

Change Elemental’s Karl Mathiasen Equity & Innovation Fund is a philanthropic fund that subsidizes networks, organizations, and leaders that could not otherwise afford coaching and consulting engagements. It also seeds innovative programs that experiment with ways to advance change in unpredictable times.

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Co-create With Us

At Change Elemental, we believe changemakers can co-create what is needed to spark transformative, equitable change.