• Facilitation

    Not all meetings are created equal. We help groups design and facilitate experiences that bring all voices into the conversation. Our practices—which embrace emergence and curiosity—allow our partners to find their way through complex issues. We help you clarify your story, build empathy among members, and mutually move forward.

  • Project Wrangling

    You have a special project that needs an outside pair of eyes and added hands. You’re collecting stories for your organization’s anniversary, organizing a public event. HYPHA brings creativity and experience to help you scale what might seem undoable!

  • Writing Coaching

    Your voice and ideas are needed in this world! I provide mentoring to keep you on track to complete a book or other large project. Through regular meetings, agreements, and digital encouragement, I’m the friend who helps you make good on your intentions.

  • Communications

    Need a few articles for a magazine, an annual report, or copy to thread together a new website? This is the bread & butter of HYPHA’S work, and we’re happy to keep slicing and spreading!

Jennifer has renewed our organization.  After leaving a session with her,  our immediate team felt more connected. Her approach is much appreciated as her sessions are filled with openness, energy and fun. - Liz Osborne, City of Iowa City


Methodologies & Influences

  • Living systems

    Hypha’s name comes from the thread-like parts of mycelium that move across a forest floor searching for connections and communication information. We are inspired by nature’s example to find solutions that connect and regenerate. My ideas about interconnectivity have been adapted from adrienne maree brown; Roshi Joan Halifax, and Stephanie Pace Marshall.

  • Stories matter

    Humans are storytelling animals. While data and science are necessary for changing systems, we need stories to spark imagination and empathy. Narrative is an important therapeutic tool for connection and healing. Writers and thinkers like Rebecca Solnit, Anthony Doerr, and Krista Tippett, who use story—whether in essays, fiction, or podcasts—to share complex information are my teachers.

  • Somatic practice

    The body holds a lot of wisdom that we too often ignore or don’t even understand how to access. When we stretch or play or dance or simply walk on the earth, our perspective is enlarged; we remember we are animals. My work is informed by somatic practitioners who come from the worlds of yoga, dance, theatre, and psychology, including Kripalu yoga, Michael Rohd, Staci K. Haines, Liz Lerman, David Berceli, and Peter Levine.

  • Power of place

    Where we do our work effects the work. A windowless meeting room and a forest teeming with microscopic life will bring about different ideas. We must be respectful of the role that space plays when we trust in emergence, and when we give ourselves time and space to hear ourselves. My teachers are the Driftless region, the California coast, the many retreat spaces I’ve entered, the woods of my childhood, and my own garden.

  • Holding space

    This phrase has become a bit too trendy in recent years, but I stand by it! It speaks of the need to have someone in the role of witness during the many difficult or complex conversations our world needs. We need people present who don’t have a vested interest in an outcome. Rather, they make sure everyone is heard and offer unexpected and perhaps playful ways to approach the issue. They track moods and time and if the room is too hot. They are the care takers and the guides. I’m grateful for the examples of Anna Jackson, Fisher Qua, Michael Rohd, and Heather Plett.