The Shift

The Shift is a 5-day experiential training where teams strengthen trust, collaboration, and shared leadership. Through dialogue, relational practices, and play, organizations explore ways of working together that align with their deepest values.

For organizations doing meaningful work — and wanting their internal culture to match

Many organizations care deeply about equity, collaboration, belonging, and meaningful impact.

But values alone don’t shape culture.

How people communicate.
How decisions get made.
How conflict is handled.
How safe people feel speaking honestly.
How leadership and responsibility are shared.

That’s culture.

The Shift helps teams align how they work together with the values they want to embody — creating healthier, more connected, and more sustainable ways of collaborating.

At the heart of The Shift is a simple belief

When teams operate from:

• trust rather than control
• collaboration rather than hierarchy
• curiosity rather than judgment
• connection rather than urgency

…the culture changes.

Because people don’t just work inside organizations. They experience them.

Healthy cultures are built through relationship.

Not through hierarchy alone.
Not through better systems alone.
Not through shared values written on a wall.

But through how people communicate, navigate tension, make decisions, share power, and show up with one another every day.

Radical Learning

What The Shift Supports

The Shift is a facilitated immersive experience designed to help teams strengthen the relational foundations that make healthy, sustainable collaboration possible.

It combines relational practice, experiential learning, communication tools, and culture-building work to help teams examine inherited patterns around leadership, power, communication, trust, and collaboration — and begin practicing healthier ways of working together.

Through reflection, dialogue, embodied practice, and shared experience, participants build stronger communication, deeper trust, clearer alignment, and more resilient ways of navigating tension and change.

The Shift is for organizations that know sustainable collaboration requires more than better systems or strategies — it requires people to relate differently, too.

What Teams Often Experience

Organizations that participate in The Shift often report:

  • stronger trust within the team

  • clearer communication across roles

  • more collaborative leadership dynamics

  • deeper connection and understanding between team members

  • greater alignment between mission and internal culture

  • renewed creativity, energy, and shared purpose

Rather than simply learning new tools, teams begin experiencing a different way of working together.

  • "The Shift was one of the most powerful professional and personal development experiences I’ve had. It expanded my awareness of how I show up in relationships and leadership, and gave me tools for communicating needs, navigating conflict, and supporting others with greater empathy and clarity. Since returning to my work, I’ve felt more grounded, more collaborative, and more capable of holding space for meaningful dialogue and growth."

    Jessica

  • "The Shift offered a series of gentle invitations to examine our beliefs, the systems that shaped them, and how they influence the way we show up in our work and relationships. Through conversation, reflection, and playful practices, we explored tools that helped us respond differently in moments of tension and complexity. The experience strengthened my ability to listen deeply, navigate power dynamics, and collaborate with others in more compassionate and constructive ways."

    Leila

  • "The Shift was unlike any training or conference I’ve attended in over 20 years. Instead of lectures or presentations about leadership and culture, we actually lived and practiced the principles together. The facilitators created a space where people could show up fully, explore deeply held assumptions, and learn from one another without fear of judgment. It was a powerful reminder that real learning and culture change happen through experience and relationship, not just information."

    Chemay

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Many teams struggle not because people lack good intentions, but because inherited habits around control, hierarchy, and communication get in the way. The Shift helps teams build greater trust, shared leadership, and more responsive collaboration through practical experiences that change how people work together — not just how they think about teamwork.

  • Power dynamics are present in every team — whether acknowledged or not. The Shift helps participants recognize inherited patterns around hierarchy, control, authority, and belonging, and explore more conscious ways of collaborating that support equity, shared voice, and relational accountability.

  • Yes. The Shift is deeply experiential, but participants don’t leave with inspiration alone.

    They leave with practical relational tools they can continue using long after the experience ends.

    Depending on the context, this may include communication and conflict practices, consent-based collaboration tools, power awareness frameworks, relational attunement practices, adaptive leadership tools, embodied learning, and culture-building exercises.

    The goal isn’t to collect more theories — it’s to practice ways of relating that create meaningful change.

  • Team culture changes when people relate differently to one another. The Shift helps teams build greater trust, healthier conflict patterns, stronger collaboration, and more conscious leadership — shifting the day-to-day dynamics that shape communication, decision-making, and team wellbeing. Lasting cultural change is strengthened through continued practice and organizational support.

  • The Shift is an interactive, experiential learning experience—not a traditional lecture or passive training. Participants engage through guided reflection, practical relational exercises, intentional play-based practices, small and large group dialogue, and collaborative activities designed to create meaningful insight, connection, and real-world application.

  • Yes. Every organization brings its own culture, challenges, and aspirations. The Shift is grounded in a clear relational framework, but we collaborate with each partner to shape an experience that is responsive to their specific context, goals, and the dynamics they most want to address.

The Shift by Radical Learning

Who Holds the Space

The Shift is facilitated by Sari González, Chemay Morales-James, and Rebecka Koritz.

Sari and Rebecka, co-founders of Radical Learning and creators of The Shift, have spent years supporting families, educators, and learning communities in moving beyond control-based systems toward cultures rooted in trust, consent, and collaboration.

Their work focuses on helping adults transform the ways they relate to and support young people, while building environments where autonomy, agency, and connection can thrive.

Chemay brings extensive experience in culturally responsive education, facilitation, and equity-centered learning design. Her work focuses on helping individuals and organizations engage complex conversations while building clarity, connection, and shared purpose.

Together, they create spaces where teams can pause, reflect, and practice new ways of relating and leading — aligning their internal culture with the values they seek to embody in their work with young people.

If you’re curious about bringing this work into your organization, we’d love to hear from you.

Fill out the form below and tell us a bit about your context. We’ll get back to you to schedule a conversation and see if this feels like a good match — for you and for us.

We also offer adapted versions of The Shift for youth-serving ecosystems and young people. Reach out to explore alignment.

Let’s explore if this is a fit