Co-Creating a World Rooted in Shared Power and Connection
Finding Resonance helps communities and organizations move from top-down, business-as-usual models into cooperative, people-powered systems rooted in trust and care. We guide teams in finding the frequency of belonging through facilitation, conflict transformation, and participatory decision-making. Our work bridges structural change and community healing, supporting worker- and community-owned collectives, as well as housing initiatives— where harmony, shared ownership, and cultural renewal can thrive.
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Our Approch
Rooted in reclaiming ancestral lifeways of care and communalism, we are passionate about equity, justice, and building a new economy — a new world — grounded in the value, interconnection, and interdependence of all life. Our work flows from a deep understanding of the transformational power of authentic, vulnerable connection and collective healing along with deep roots in our ancestral inheritance and our sacred relationship with land. We educate through intentionally designed, holistic, group experiences that foster belonging, mutuality, compassion, growth, and shared power.
OUR SERVICES
Cultivating Emerging Organizations
We guide emerging organizations in laying strong foundations for both culture and operations. Through tailored facilitation, we help teams clarify their purpose, design inclusive decision-making processes, define roles and responsibilities, and establish relational agreements that support trust and accountability. Our approach integrates healing-centered practices with practical business and governance frameworks, ensuring new organizations start with structures and values that align, support collaboration, and scale sustainably.
Growing New and Existing Intentional Communities
We support intentional communities with a comprehensive facilitation approach that guides groups through foundational steps—clarifying shared purpose, establishing or updating agreements, cultivating cooperative culture, and deciding together which projects to focus on first. Through sequenced modules and land-based visioning, we help communities build strong roots for sustainable, regenerative living and working together.
Transforming Existing Organizations from Hierarchies to Collaborarative Cultures
Our facilitation helps established organizations dismantle the often unintentional, insidious, and stagnant hierarchical structures that inhibit cooperation and creativity by fostering shared decision-making, co-created agreements, and relational conflict transformation. Tailored to each group’s needs, we support smooth transitions toward cooperative governance and aligned economic systems while supporting the deep, social-emotional healing that is needed for newly defined relationships to thrive.
Worker-to-Owner Coop Conversions
We guide worker cooperatives through identity shifts and system redesigns, helping teams embrace their new roles as co-stewards. Our modules focus on shared power, role clarity, and cooperative financial models, empowering workers to become confident owners in thriving communities of purpose. We welcome, celebrate, and cultivate the inner-work of healing outdated dynamics and distrust created by implicit power differentials to ensure success in power transitions.
Grounded in cultural sovereignty and spiritual integration, our facilitation honors ancestral wisdom while supporting practical community development. We collaborate on tribal housing and land stewardship projects with ceremony, regenerative design, and cooperative frameworks born of our Indigenous values and needs, to create intentional tribal housing communities. The land is our primary teacher and our ancestors show us the way through the emergent processes we develop in partnership with tribal healers and leaders.
Social Movement Development and Nested Network Cohesion
For large-scale networks and movements, we provide frameworks that align diverse groups without erasing unique identities. We use the cross-cultural protocols we've learned from our elders and communities to create welcoming spaces that engender belonging. Our approach nurtures shared purpose, relational agreements, and regenerative and culturally-informed pacing across organizations, helping networks-of-networks grow cohesive, resilient, and collaborative movements.
Testimonials
Tree is like Spirit-Glue. They helped our organization rebirth ourselves from a place of coherence and integrity with our values, embodying the world we want to create.
Yeshe Salz,
Restoring Lifeways
Santa Fe NM
I am always excited when I see Tree's name on a project. I know if they are involved, there will be integrity. From purpose and policies through to programs and relationships, the work will be aligned with no rubber stamping.
Matthew Gulbranson
Equity in Education
Seattle WA
FAQS
What makes Finding Resonance different from other consulting services?
Most consulting services focus on structures, policies, and surface-level problem-solving. At Finding Resonance, we go deeper. Our work blends practical cooperative development with healing-centered, decolonial facilitation — because systems only change when the people within them are able to relate in new ways. We don’t deliver a one-size-fits-all model; we co-create processes rooted in your values, cultural context, and lived experiences. Our approach integrates ancestral wisdom, listening to the land, community care, and regenerative/culturally informed pacing, in partnership with your community, your healers, your leaders, ensuring that transformation is not just strategic, but relational and sustainable. We help groups find the frequency of belonging so they can thrive together for the long term.
How long does a typical consulting engagement last?
Finding Resonance offers anything from half day workshops or three day retreats for your organization's staff and/or board, to six month community building and healing processes developing intentional communities from heart to land to culture to structures, in deep partnership with your community.
How much do these services cost?
Finding Resonance offers a sliding scale and a build-your-own package option that allows you to mix-and-match the modules that best serve your community or project. Schedule a meeting with Jay and Tree to share your needs and we will find a solution that works with your resources.
OUR TEAM
JAY CORRALES
TREE WILLARD
Jay Corrales is a Next Economy entrepreneur, community builder, and transformational facilitator who integrates healing-centered and regenerative approaches into organizational and community development. With more than two decades of cross-sector experience in business, technology, real estate, nonprofit leadership, and sustainable development, Jay brings a rare ability to harmonize cultural and ancestral wisdom with future-focused strategy.
As a co-founder of Finding Resonance, Jay partners with leaders and teams to navigate complexity with clarity, designing processes that deepen connection, cultivate trust, and strengthen collaborative capacity. Alongside collaborator Tree, he co-facilitates immersive gatherings that weave nature connection, somatic practice, and creative inquiry, supporting participants to reconnect with their deepest purpose.
Rooted in Okinawan, Chicano, and French European ancestry, Jay carries a living commitment to cultural restoration, ecological care, and just economies that honor the wellbeing of all life. His nonprofit leadership includes serving as Treasurer, Vice President, and President in sustainability-focused organizations, contributing to the advancement of initiatives such as USGBC San Diego’s expansion into Residential Green Building, California’s first Sustainable Mainstreet Program, and the LEED Platinum Living Lab for the Ocean Discovery Institute.
For play, Jay enjoys time in nature, cooperative board games, racquet sports, and gathering with friends and family—practices that sustain the joy, connection, and reciprocity he seeks to nurture in the places and relationships he is part of.
Tree Willard is a justice-focused community builder, systems change leader, and relational leadership coach who integrates equity, healing-centered, and decolonial approaches into organizational and community transformation. With more than two decades of experience facilitating groups and guiding social change initiatives, Tree bridges practical strategy with the heart of cultural restoration, helping leaders and communities reimagine systems to reflect the dignity, care, and interconnection of all life.
Through Finding Resonance, Tree works with communities, organizations, and cooperatives to cultivate cultures of trust, belonging, and shared leadership. Their facilitation blends ceremony, embodied practice, and creative collaboration, creating spaces where participants feel safe to be authentic, connect deeply, and discover their collective power to shape a different future. Alongside collaborator Jay, Tree designs experiences that invite both personal transformation and tangible, systemic change.
Grounded in their Cherokee ancestry, carrying lived experience as an Indigenous, Two Spirit person with invisible disabilities, Tree holds a lifelong commitment to equity, justice, and the liberation of all peoples from scarcity and oppression. Their leadership has included designing community advisory councils, rewriting policy to reflect diverse lived realities, creating accountability measures for executives, and coaching leaders to embrace inclusive, relationship-first cultures.
For joy, Tree loves quiet time in nature, swimming, sleeping under the stars, growing food, and being in ceremony. They also delight in boisterous dancing, singing, and making things with their hands—especially when creating alongside others, in the spirit of connection and collaboration.
