Offers and Needs Market (OANM) Facilitator Training
Medford, Oregon – March 6 (opening evening), 7 & 8 (training days), 2026
The Offers and Needs Market (OANM) is a powerful tool for mutual aid and community wealth and resilience building that is now being utilized and practiced around the world. This training is a unique opportunity to learn directly from those who have stewarded its development as a tool and practice to support the flourishing of wellbeing and solidarity economies, locally and globally.
Co-facilitated by Post Growth Institute’s dani leonardo (OANM Program Manager), Donnie Maclurcan (OANM Creator), and Gabriela Safay, alongside Jasi Swick from SOESD Indian Education, this 12-hour training invites anyone interested in learning to facilitate and adapt the OANM methodology.
You will learn to:
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Facilitate inclusive group experiences where you are relaxed and in-control.
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Energize your life with new leadership skills that bring forth the best in others.
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Feel empowered and valued as a community facilitator, equipped with tools and methods that can be of deep service in a wide 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. The Post Growth Institute is a social venture striving to provide accessible tools while sustaining our organization and its members.
Anyone who wants a scholarship gets one. Simply fill in this form.
We have stipends of up to $250 per person available for participants who identify as Native American/First Nations/Indigenous! Thank you to Ford Family Foundation and the New Economy Coalition for the support that allows enabled us to offer this.
Questions? Email us at oanm @ postgrowth dot org
Your Instructors
dani leonardo
Faculty
dani (they/she) is the Post Growth Institute’s Director of Equity, bringing a background in Permaculture Design, and youth mentoring grounded in ecological wisdom, perspectives from the margins, and a centering in Anti-Oppressive Practice.
dani has been a member of the Offers and Needs Market (OANM) team, hosting/leading OANM facilitator trainings and public OANMs, since 2020. with a keen eye to the intersections of art, music and liberatory movements, they seek collaboration, co-liberation, creativity and justice, and 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.
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.
Donnie Maclurcan
Faculty
Donnie (he/him) is co-founder and director of strategy at the Post Growth Institute. Drawing on work as a consultant for more than 500 social enterprise projects, across 38 countries, his professional focus has been designing frameworks, methodologies and experiences for creative collaboration and collective liberation. One such experience is the Offers and Needs Market, which he created in 2012. An Affiliate Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University, Donnie holds a Ph.D. in social science, with his research having explored nanotechnology’s implications for global inequality and sustainability.
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.
This event is part of the following 2025 – 2026 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 to 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 & Lead
dani (they/she) is the Post Growth Institute’s Director of Equity, bringing a background in Permaculture Design, and youth mentoring grounded in ecological wisdom, perspectives from the margins, and a centering in Anti-Oppressive Practice.
dani has been a member of the Offers and Needs Market (OANM) team, hosting/leading OANM facilitator trainings and public OANMs, since 2020. with a keen eye to the intersections of art, music and liberatory movements, they seek collaboration, co-liberation, creativity and justice, and 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 & Admin
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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