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Join date: Feb 22, 2022
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Shen is the founder and lead strategist at Chefalo Consulting. She's passionate about creating effective and ongoing change in her communities as well as hiking every trail on her (very long) bucket list. She's dedicated her life to sharing her story of childhood abuse, including her lived experience in the US's broken foster care system. Shen is an expert speaker, facilitator, coach, and consultant who spends much of her time traveling to deliver engaging training programs and strengthen communities.
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May 13, 2026 ∙ 2 min
You're Not Burned Out. You're Carrying Too Much That Was Never Yours.
If you've been feeling exhausted lately, not from doing too much, but from something harder to name, this one is for you. In this video, Shenandoah gets personal about a kind of burnout that doesn't show up in your task list. It's the burnout that comes from being the reliable one, the calm one, the one who holds it together for everyone else. She breaks down three types of over-carrying (emotional, decision, and identity), shares the language she's been using to shift her own patterns, and...
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Apr 8, 2026 ∙ 6 min
Emotional Safety at Work: A Meeting Rhythm That Helps Teams Speak Up
When teams feel tense, avoidant, or quietly disconnected, most leaders try to solve it with a policy, a training, or a new set of values. Those can help, but culture is shaped in the everyday moments: how people meet, how they raise concerns, and how leaders respond when the truth shows up. In a Mindful Management conversation with leadership expert Steven Gaffney, one idea stood out: the biggest communication problem is often not what gets said, it is what stays unsaid. When the unsaid stays...
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Feb 5, 2026 ∙ 4 min
When Technology Replaces Welcome: The Micro-Moments Where Connection Disappears
A trauma-informed case for designing systems that protect human contact in everyday interactions. The quiet disappearance of connection Technology is not only changing how we work, shop, and access services. It is changing how we relate to one another. Not through big, obvious moments, but through micro-moments, the small points of contact where someone sees you, welcomes you, and confirms that you matter. When those moments disappear, the transaction may still work, but the relationship...
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