Building Skills for Community Autonomy
come hell or high water
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Safety & Security
Get clear on risks. Leverage relationships to mitigate harm. Grow the skills you and your organization need.
Team and organizational developmentDe-escalation trainings
Risk assessment and mitigation
Threat research and analysis
Home and office risk assessments and planning
Direct Action security planning
Street and wilderness medic training
Basic digital security audit and planning
Information management
Change management planning
Assessment and inventory of existing practices
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Anti-Racist Guidance
Get the support you need to become a principled, accountable, confident, and effective anti-racist organizer within resistance movements.
Identify what skills you want to build
Find practices that reflect your values
Understand your role and contribution
Build trust with key partners
Identify and grow the resources available
Take bold action
Invite more people into the work
Deepen historical analysis
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Embodied Leadership
Get familiar with what is happening inside your body. Heal from the impacts of trauma and oppression. Take action from your values. Build the skills to show up consistently in right relationship.
Develop a centering practice
Know deeply what you care about
Understand how reactivity shows up
Generate an internal sense of safety
Create more choices under pressure
Deepen the skills of negotiation
Move toward a positive and inviting future
Build intimacy with yourself and others
Grow capacity to move through conflict
Access sources of resilience
Grow your leaderships skills in groups and organizations
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Political Education
Ground your strategies in historical knowledge. Empower your campaigns with strong analysis. Activate your base through transformative methods.
Assess key learnings based on strategyCurriculum design and implementation
Emergent facilitation and adaptation
Content responsive to campaigns
Leadership development
Compelling narrative and relevant frameworks
Participatory methodologies
Continued learning resources and support
Methods grounded in access and disability justice
About
High Water Coaching
With a commitment to empowering community autonomy, High Water Coaching offers tailored trainings, workshops, coaching, and facilitation — grounded in embodied leadership practices and political education.
What People Are Saying
“Our movement work is facing terrain unlike ever before. The challenges call us to weave together political education, security, and a rigorous culture of understanding intersections, without underestimating challenges. High Water Coaching’s training in somatics, security, political education, and their deep roots in anti-racist guidance means their coaching is rich with what we need in these terrible times.”
— Carla W.
Fairness Campaign and Showing up for Racial Justice
“High Water created an entry level skill focused security training that was tailored to my team and based on our organizational needs. They made the material digestible and brought a grounded and calm presence to topics that can often feel overwhelming. It was an excellent entry point that left staff ready to implement a new skill and committed to learning more. In times like these, I know having a more skilled organizing team that is able to make risk assessments will support us being able to stay steady in rapid response and uncertainty.”
— Sarah S.
Working Washington
“High Water Coaching is excellent at training, intuitive facilitation, and caring communicators. They are also razor sharp in their understanding and analysis of why security matters for fighting organizations. I’ve seen them regularly forge that razor sharp analysis to effect the strategic security practice baselines for movement work, all the while deeply caring for every participant and ensuring practices of engaged group learning.”
— Jonathan S.
Constitutional Communcations
“High Water is my go-to for questions about security and community safety, in any setting. Not only are they deeply knowledgeable on a variety of aspects of what builds community safety, their commitment to community and care comes through in how they are able to work through possibilities and practices in ways that leave me and the groups I work with feeling empowered and encouraged, that yes we can actually keep us safe in a multiplicity of ways. Safety planning can be scary and overwhelming, and High Water is able to hold that with gentleness as well as suggestions for starting places that help planning feel manageable and do-able. Their focus on relationship as the foundation of safety has been crucial, reminding me/us that we are not alone, that we build a more safe and thriving world together. ”
— Rev. Anne D.
FierceRev Remedies and Liberating Lineages Collective
