Designing care across city life, home life, and work life.

We partner with women, organizations, and communities to design slower, more beautiful ways of living and working well — rooted in care, public health, and place — and shaped by trauma-aware, resilience-centered facilitation practices that support human well-being and psychological safety.

The Homesteadista is a community-centered wellness and placemaking practice that designs people-centered systems of care across homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces.

Our work blends slow living philosophy, public health principles, and creative placemaking to support women leaders, organizations, and communities in building sustainable, humane, and culturally rich ways of living and working well.

Every engagement is customized.
We don’t offer one-size-fits-all packages.
We design what fits your people, your place, and your goals.

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Our Commitments

Everything we do is grounded in three commitments:

Women’s Leadership, Reimagined
We support women to lead with authenticity, confidence, and nervous-system sustainability — without shrinking themselves or burning out in systems that were never designed for their care.

Care-Centered Cultures
We partner with organizations to build cultures rooted in belonging, dignity, and long-term well-being — not just productivity, performance, or optics.

Place-Based Community Care
We design public, community-rooted projects that bring beauty, access, and everyday care into neighborhoods — transforming vacant lots, sidewalks, and shared spaces into places of connection and healing.

Thoughtful Engagement:
Every collaboration is informed by reflective and trauma-aware facilitation that keeps emotional safety, clear boundaries, and human dignity at the center of shared work.

What We Do - We work across three life spaces:

Work

We focus on slow leadership, inclusive culture, and human-centered systems. Our approach involves advising organizations, schools, and leaders on care-centered systems, sustainable culture design, and leadership practices that enable teams to thrive while avoiding burnout. Our methods are based on thoughtful design and facilitation, informed by stress awareness and trauma-informed practices.

Home

We promote daily practices focused on ease, rest, nourishment, ritual, and overall well-being for women. Our support helps women create routines that prioritize self-care in various settings, such as apartments, porches, and kitchen tables. We emphasize approaches that recognize self-care as essential to fostering well-being and recharging the nervous system.

City

We design community-focused wellness projects, gardens, public rituals, and creative placemaking initiatives that foster beauty, a sense of belonging, and everyday care within urban neighborhoods. Our work is grounded in emotional safety and cultural fluency, and it encompasses food systems, urban agriculture, and neighborhood greening initiatives.

How We Partner

We work with women leaders, organizations, and communities across sectors and geographies — from government and education to nonprofit, private industry, urban agriculture, and international initiatives — who are ready to build slower, more humane ways of living and working well.

Our practice is designed for both in-person and virtual partnerships. We facilitate remote learning experiences, lead virtual and hybrid workshops, offer guest speaking engagements, and collaborate with teams around the world through advisory and project-based work.

Our partners come to us during moments of transition, burnout, growth, or reimagining — when old systems no longer fit and something more sustainable is needed.

Our work is customized and relational, always shaped by your people, your place, and your moment.

If you’re curious what this could look like in your world, we’d love to start a conversation.

Let’s Begin a Conversation. Curious what this could look like in your community, organization, or leadership life? We’d love to explore a custom project, partnership, or program tailored to your goals, people, and values.