Jungian Depth + Kinship Coaching
Kinship-Ecologies Attachment Interventions
Transformative Communication + Conflict Resolution
Psychedelic Integration + Support
jasper.alex
Facilitator, Educator, and Coach
Effective Communication + Conflict Resolution
Building Motivation for Revolutionary Teamwork
2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion Consulting + Support
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ABOUt jasper
Jasper is an engaging and lively educator, facilitator, community organizer, and coach. They are passionate about bringing transformative approaches to communication, conflict resolution, and building understanding and trust among diverse teams that help foster businesses adapt to an ever-changing future. Jasper is able to effortlessly identify shared values and build cohesive strategies for working well together, within teams, across organizations, and even between businesses and the communities they serve.
Jasper is motivated by their strong belief that building better and more nuanced relationships of understanding, accountability, and repair within ourselves, our organizations, and our relationships to wider world are the key towards a brighter, thriving future for all.
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offerings of service
introductory consultation (15 minutes)
Let’s get to know each other! A no-fee meeting to see if we might be a good fit for one another. You may ask any questions you have about my approach or the services that I offer. We can also map a preliminary approach to working together to address any specific issues, topics, or knowledge gaps that you're hoping to address.
Keynotes & Presentations
Virtual or In-Person Sessions
I have delivered sessions addressing meaningful 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion and culturally relevant transgender support in a variety of contexts. Additional sessions include strategies for diversifying teams, reducing barriers, and fostering mentorship opportunities within organizations, as well as sessions fostering motivation for change, improving communication and conflict resolution strategies, and nonviolent communication strategies for workplaces and community organizations.
tough conversations: skills for navigating growth
I have assisted a number of organizations in transforming their ability to identify, address, and transform in the face of conflict and an ever-changing world. Get in touch to discuss how I can help to catalyze change in your team by fostering motivational for change and inclusion initiatives, developing effective communication and conflict resolution strategies among teams, and increasing efficacy through progressive learning and development strategies.
conflict mediation + support
I have trained with Community Justice Initiatives as a Transformative Mediation Facilitator and continue to engage in on-going development of my skills within transformative justice, anti-oppressive mediation, and community accountability processes.
recent studies + certifications
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Transformative Mediation with the Community Justice Institute (2021)
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Attachment Theory - An Embodied Approach (integrating polyvagal theory) with Maureen Gallagher (2021)
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Inner Child Work and Protectors: Parts Work Internal Family Systems with Dr. Jay Earley (2021)
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Embodied Erotics: Decolonial Approaches to Gender and Sexuality with H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams (2022)
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Light in the Shadow: Shadow Yoga, Shamanism & Psychology (depth psychology) with Isa Gucciardi (2022)
- Trauma Therapy: A Somatic Approach with Dr. Albert Wong (2022)
current/on-going studies
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KINSHIP: An Exploration Into Being Together with Tyson Yunkaporta, Minna Salami, Douglas Rushkoff, Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein, Charlotte Du Cann, Andreas Weber, Adah Parris, Stephen Jenkinson, Gavin Van Horn, brontë velez, Jeremy Lent, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Nora Bateson, Justine Epstein, Tim Ingold, Sophie Strand, Carolina Duque & Vanessa Andreotti of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures, Andy Letcher, Katrien Franken, Hannah Close, and Rosanna Rippel (2022 - current)
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Loving Justice: Trauma-Informed Conflict Skills: trauma-informed, anti-oppressive conflict resolution with Kai Cheng Thom (2022 - current)
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[To Be Announced] with the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Institute (2022 - 2023)
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recent / current reads + recommendations
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
Co-edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer - Staci K. Haines
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Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution
Edited by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois and Shaindl Diamond -
Hospicing Modernity
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira -
Towards Braiding
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti -
Towards Scarring our Collective Soul Wound
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Cash Ahenakew with Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti
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my approach
I believe we all want ourselves and one another to be well, but that fear will often keep us from acting from that place. I believe that people are fundamentally good and that we mean well, but that our potentially misguided strategies can sometimes lead us to harmful behaviours.
I believe that peer-based mental health interventions are a critical key to community wellness. By giving people the skills to help themselves and one another, we all become empowered, connected, and able to not only overcome the inevitable obstacles, but to thrive in the face of them. This is true within partnerships, family systems, as well as workplace teams, organizations, and larger community level groups.
Through my work with people living at the margins, who have faced elevated rates of discrimination, oppression, and barriers to affirming care, I have witnessed first hand in my own experiences and my work the ways that the current approach to a more socially just and equitable work isn't working. I believe that once people know better, they often do better, but that often contemporary language around social justice, as well as diversity and inclusion initiatives, leave people feeling alienated, shamed, or unable to meaningfully engage.
My work seeks to foster a motivation towards inclusion, even from those who seem most resistant, by identifying shared values of community, belonging, and care. I do this by making participants feel heard in their priorities and needs and relating them back to accessible strategies for change that are easily understood, easily implemented, and within reach of anyone who wishes to help create a brighter future for us all.
I welcome any and all feedback from clients, collaborators, and co-conspirators, as these are further invitations for me to grow in my own awareness and offerings of an affirming practice.
My work is informed by researchers and thinkers such as Bonnie Burstow and the field of critical psychologies, emergent organizers and brilliant Black movement dreamers like adrienne maree brown, Audre Lorde, and Lama Rod Owens, as well as my formal training in internal family systems (IFS), anti-oppressive practice, transformative justice, radical accountability, motivational interviewing, adult learning styles, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), transpersonal psychology, attachment theory, and polyvagal theory. I also have extensive training and lived experience in the field of sexual health, 2SLGBTQIA+ realities, polyamory and consentual non-monogamy, and relationships of all descriptions.
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Let's talk.
virtual sessions available worldwide
in-person sessions in ontario or by request
Feel free to reach out through this contact form, by email, or request to set up a phone call to discuss ways that I can support you and your organization's growth.
Consultations are free and can be used to create a strategy address any specific issues, topics, or identified knowledge gaps.