Speaking & Facilitation

We bring scientific and academic credibility, deep experience-design skill, and joyful, relatable presence to our speaking and facilitation. Whether it's for a healthcare conference, an academic convening, or a private off-site retreat, we travel nationally to deliver keynotes and facilitate experiences of Community as Medicine.

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Less lecture. More experience.

Even for academic and professional audiences, we combine rigor (research outcomes data, deep clinical implementation experience) with dynamic experiential arcs that engage and activate participants.

Conferences

Recent keynotes include:
WELCOA 2023,
‍Intend Health Relational Leadership Convening 2023,
‍The Art and Science of Health Promotion 2023,
Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US)

Retreats

Our founders bring the OSW spirt to community-building retreats for professional and community groups.

Clients include 1440 Multiversity (Healing our Healthcare Heroes), Reflections Retreat, and more.

Team Off-Sites

We can faciliate experiences at All-Staff meetings, annual gatherings, company trainings, and other organizational events.

Clients include Kaiser Permanente, Genentech, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Abbott Diabetes Care, Imaginatik.

Community as Medicine

"Community As Medicine" is a dynamic program that's 20% keynote, 80% experiential journey. Participants move, connect, reflect, envision, and rapidly generate a culture of belonging, receiving:

• An engaging, interactive, and joyful experience
• An infusion of vitality, authenticity, and connection between participants
• An action plan for fulfillment of the personal and collective goals identified

When offered early in conferences, retreats, and convenings, it significantly alters the nature of interpersonal interactions, fostering a sense of safety, mutuality, and trust over professional detachment and skepticism.

Custom Keynotes & Experiences

We love to partner with organizers and leaders to design and deliver bespoke sessions to suit the needs of your team, community, and context.

Depending on the needs/desires of conference organizers, the ‘flavor’ of our facilitation can be adjusted towards more academic/professional or more humanistic/experiential framing to meet the needs of a given convening.

You’ll get an interactive presentation applying the human technologies of health, wellbeing, and accomplishment.

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Our favorite topics include:

Community as Medicine (of course)
Innovation in Behavioral Health
Social Isolation and Health
Food as Medicine
Clinic-Community Integration, Multi-sector partnerships
The Founder's Journey: Nonprofit from 0-60
Human Connection and Belonging in Healthcare

Our Co-Founder Dr. Elizabeth Markle is a professor of Community Mental Health at California Institute of Integral Studies and can speak to a variety of topics. We also love to travel and speak with our collaborators at Recipe4Health and DigDeep Farms.

Want to see us in action? Check out our video, audio, and print resources.

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