Michelle Smith

Location: Asheville, NC , traditional Cherokee lands. ᎠᏰᎵ ᏚᏂᏚᎲ ᏣᎳᎩ, home to members of the Tsalagiyi Detsadanilvgi, ᏣᎳᎩᏱᏕᏣᏓᏂᎸᎩ, the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians.
A favorite animals: Dogs, river otters, hummingbirds

A little bit more about me: I’ve been identifying as a social transformationist, though I also love transformational practices for my inner and relational work as well. 

I’m a native of the Blue Ridge mountains of Western NC and I measure the quality of my summer by the number of times I get to swim in natural bodies water.

As co-founder of the Regenerative Governance Project I serve as a trainer and facilitator specializing in the living practices through which groups learn to weave their separate streams of action into coordinated, life-giving wholes.

Today I work with leaders and networks building bioregional resilience — food systems, watershed coalitions, cooperative enterprises, post-disaster recovery networks, and place-based regenerative initiatives. I offer:

As co-founder of circleforward.us , I serve as a governance guide to collaborative initiatives aimed at systems change.

Via my work as a celebrant, someone who specializes in ceremonies, I create personal ceremonies for life transitions, such as wedding, memorials, community rituals and the like. Ashevillecelebrant.com