Our Goal

rEVOLution’s primary goal is to help individuals, organizations, and communities bring about social justice and positive social change through love, compassion, and community. The importance of exploring, discussing, and engaging anti-oppression initiatives is impossible to ignore. While many of us hope our environments are free from the impacts of oppression, unfortunately, they are not. We all possess multiple social identities (race, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, body size, etc.), yet honest conversations about the relationship of our social identities to oppression in our workplaces, communities, and individual actions are few and far between. Until we develop the awareness, skills, and confidence required to begin and sustain heart-felt, effective, and ongoing actions to challenge racism, colonialism, and other oppressions, we will run into issues in our communities over and over again. Identifying, unlearning, and undoing racism and oppression in ourselves and our organizations is not easy. rEVOLution is here to help.


Our Philosophy

Individuals, organizations, and communities thrive when they can embrace difference, hold multiple perspectives at the same time, and treat everyone as an important member of the group. When everyone is a valued member of a team, knows that their contributions and ideas matter, has what they need to succeed, and understands their role in community, organizations consistently move toward their goals in more aligned, impactful ways, while differences become less disruptive as people have the skills and trust to navigate them.

We are committed to building and nurturing communities in which people’s differences are valued and seen as assets to the overall group. This work is not about making people feel guilty, badly about themselves, and singled out, nor is it about avoiding conversations around challenging issues, finding band-aid fixes, or saying, “can’t we all just get along?” Rather, we believe meaningful change happens when people lean into discomfort, are allowed to feel angry or confused, listen to one another with empathy, and collaborate in moving forward.

We believe people are good and have a desire to connect in thriving interdependent communities. We want to love and support each other to be our best. However, discomfort, fear of failure, and our oppressive socialization stops us from connecting, repairing, creating community, and working with one another to dismantle oppression. By providing the knowledge of oppression theory, tools for change, and opportunities to practice those tools, anti-oppression work can become an organic part of our lives and organizations, rather than an initiative or a task to be completed. Together, in community, we can create revolutionary change.

Our Team

rEVOLution works with a number of consultants across the nation. Our core team is represented below.
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Natalie Thoreson, MEd
Primary Consultant and Facilitator

Natalie (she/they/he) has facilitated anti-oppression workshops for over 20 years, founding rEVOLution with the goal of findin’ the LOVE in revolution. Her techniques foster critical examination of systems of oppression, and the way we have been socialized to uphold these systems of inequality. Natalie organically nurtures a sense of community with finely honed skills, shaping safe, welcoming, creative, and productive spaces based in love, understanding, respect, and authenticity. His consistently open, trusting, and fun educational environments are based on first-hand experiences as a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-gendered, queer individual living in the margins of identity. She provides tools to allow participants to think critically about their own backgrounds and biases, while simultaneously dissecting concepts like oppression, colonization, prejudice, and stereotyping. Natalie believes that creating loving, interdependent communities is the heart of true rEVOLutionary change. Natalie resides on the rightful lands of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, in what is now known as Oakland, CA with their life partner Gin, dog Tasi, and two stinky guinea pigs.

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Steph Ondrusek
Admin Specialist and Facilitator

Steph Ondrusek is a coach and consultant who partners with individuals and businesses to grow in their capacities to create change. After over a decade in the fitness industry as a personal trainer, Steph came to understand much of what we're seeking is love, healing, and belonging. She has since shifted her work to include mindfulness, joy, play, and compassion–the basis from which she believes lasting changes are made. Her current practice works to support facilitation and educational spaces.


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