Offers and Needs Market (OANM) facilitator training
for Southern Oregon
Medford, Oregon
NEW DATES TBA!
Co-facilitated by dani leonardo, Gabriela Safay, and Jasi Swick, this training invites anyone interested in learning to facilitate the Offers and Needs Market to join us for an in-person training across two days (for a total of 12 hours of training). Participant stipends are available for our Native American community members.
This 12-hour in-person training will show you how to:
- Facilitate inclusive meetings where you are relaxed and in-control.
- Energize your life with new leadership skills that bring forth the best in others.
- Feel valued as a community facilitator, with a valuable process that can be of service in a variety of settings.
The full price of the training is $400 USD which covers facilitation, web support, and design labor, in addition to the training materials and resources we provide. This also sustains our facilitation team’s ongoing support for participants after the course has ended. As a social venture working to embody our values, we strive to provide accessible tools while sustaining our organization and its members. Anyone who wants a scholarship gets one; simply fill in this form.
Stay tuned, and reach out to us at oanm@postgrowth.org with any questions!
Your Instructors
dani leonardo
Faculty
dani (they/she) is a facilitator, organizer, emergent strategist, and musician with a background in Permaculture Design and youth mentoring. As the Post Growth Institute’s Director of Equity, dani brings a grounding in ecological wisdom, perspectives from the margins, and a centering in Anti-Oppressive Practice. dani’s work centers around collaboration, co-liberation, creativity and justice, with a keen eye to the intersections of art, music and liberatory movements.
dani has been a member of the Offers and Needs Market (OANM) team at the Post Growth Institute since 2020, and is in their 5th year of hosting (and more recently of leading) the OANM facilitator training. In their free time, dani can be found at the piano, in the garden, and exploring wild places, and is a lover of the color purple and a nerd for plants, polyrhythms, and Hayao Miyazaki movies.
Gabriela Safay
Host
Gabriela (she/her) is the Director of Wellbeing at the Post Growth Institute, and has been a member of the Offers and Needs Market (OANM) team at the PGI since 2022. She is passionate about regenerative economies, embodied social justice, and using grief as a tool for connection and transformation. She wants to help shape a world where economies and social systems work for nature, not against it. She was born and raised in Ashland, Oregon and is currently living in Portland, Oregon. When she’s not working she enjoys laying in the sun, walking in the forest, and sharing food with friends.
Jasi Swick
Faculty/Host
Jasi (JC) was born on the Standing Rock Reservation and is Lakota Oyate’ of the Oceti Sakowin and is a proud citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Jasi grew up in very rural Montana and moved to Oregon 7 years ago with her long-term partner, Andy and their two children: Alyssa and Alexander. Jasi attended SOU and focused on Native American Studies and Education and has been working with SOESD’s Indian Education program since 2020.
This event is part of the following event series:
Indigenous Wisdom & the Offers and Needs Market
Through ongoing collaboration with local Indigenous leaders, the Post Growth Institute is running an event series that will deepen networks and hone facilitation skills.
These events serve to invigorate social vitality and wellbeing throughout rural Southern Oregon by learning from and building upon Native American cultural practices, seed swaps, barter fairs, farmers markets, crafters guilds, and cooperative organizing. The series will culminate in an in-person OANM Facilitator Training that will be a chance for people to learn how to facilitate this powerful community building process!
Program Leads & Facilitators
Jasi Swick
Facilitator & Lead
Jasi (JC) was born on the Standing Rock Reservation and is Lakota Oyate’ of the Oceti Sakowin and is a proud citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Jasi grew up in very rural Montana and moved to Oregon 7 years ago with her long-term partner, Andy and their two children: Alyssa and Alexander. Jasi attended SOU and focused on Native American Studies and Education and has been working with the Indian Education program since 2020.
Teresa Cisneros
Program Advisor
Teresa is the VP of the Oregon Indian Education Association and for over 10 years has been an Indian Education Facilitator for the Southern Oregon Education Services District (SOESD). She is a former Oregon Shakespeare Festival actor. She identifies as a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas.
dani leonardo
Facilitator
dani (they/she) is a facilitator, organizer, emergent strategist, and musician with a background in Permaculture Design and youth mentoring. As the Post Growth Institute’s Director of Equity, dani brings a grounding in ecological wisdom, perspectives from the margins, and a centering in Anti-Oppressive Practice. dani’s work centers around collaboration, co-liberation, creativity and justice, with a keen eye to the intersections of art, music and liberatory movements.
dani has been a member of the Offers and Needs Market (OANM) team at the Post Growth Institute since 2020, and is in their 5th year of hosting (and more recently of leading) the OANM facilitator training. In their free time, dani can be found at the piano, in the garden, and exploring wild places, and is a lover of the color purple and a nerd for plants, polyrhythms, and Hayao Miyazaki movies.
Gabriela Safay
Facilitator
Gabriela (she/her) is the Director of Wellbeing at the Post Growth Institute, and has been a member of the Offers and Needs Market (OANM) team at the PGI since 2022. She is passionate about regenerative economies, embodied social justice, and using grief as a tool for connection and transformation. She wants to help shape a world where economies and social systems work for nature, not against it. She was born and raised in Ashland, Oregon and is currently living in Portland, Oregon. When she’s not working she enjoys laying in the sun, walking in the forest, and sharing food with friends.
Guest Speakers
Kenwanicahee Kravitz
Presented in Ashland, February 8, 2025
Kenwani is a culture bearer, tribal advocate and Native scholar with a deep knowledge and understanding of tribal community, culture and protocols. She is an enrolled tribal member of the Madesi Band of the Pit River Nation and a descendant of the Northern Wintu people. Mrs. Kravitz holds a Master of Legal Studies with emphasis in Federal Indian Law and Tribal Self Governance from Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law as well a BA in Native Studies Leadership from Northwest Indian College.
Kenwani is the Native Nations Liaison at Southern Oregon University. She has extensive tribal advocacy experience, has worked within tribal community and also stepped beyond cultural divides as an advocate for Native education, tribal sovereignty, Indigenous language revitalization, inclusion of Native people and their voice as well as tribal community wellness. In addition to her tribal advocacy work she also has a background in cultural museum curation, Indian Child Welfare, program development and planning as well as over 20 years of business ownership and management experience. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother.
Echo Miller
Presented in Grants Pass, February 22, 2025
Echo Miller is an enrolled member of the Klamath tribes and represents inter-tribal communities. Echo is Head Woman for Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Annual Umpqua Falls Pow Wow. She is Co-Chair of the Southern Oregon Indian Education Parent Committee, representing Jackson & Josephine County. She is the Board Secretary of the Josephine County Culture Coalition and board member of the Culture and Ecological Ehancement Network. She volunteers with the Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance Board. She is an Indigenous dancer, singer, artist, teacher, and leader. She lives in the Illinois Valley with her husband and four daughters.
Spotlighted Organizations
Red Earth Descendants
Featured in Ashland, February 8, 2025
Red Earth Descendants is a grassroots, indigenous-based organization committed to creating healthy, sustainable community while preserving Native values, traditions and culture. Our core strength is in joining our youth, elders, families and regional tribes together to share knowledge and skills. As we practice healthy community interaction, our goal is to give Native teachings to the next Generations of life.
Native WomanShare
Featured in Grants Pass, February 22, 2025
Native Womanshare is an Indigenous landscape held by Takelma and First Nations Women and Two-Spirit for community healing, land healing, art and culture. Originally named Womanshare, what began as a radical project to hold safe haven for lesbian women in the woods during the 1970’s until today has been acquired and evolved into a matriarchal space that now invites the original stewards, Native women and Two-Spirit people, as they thrive and reclaim their land-based culture.
This event series is a project of the Post Growth Institute, in partnership with SOESD Indian Education.
Funded with support from the Ford Family Foundation.
Questions? Email oanm@postgrowth.org
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