We are a consulting firm specializing in social sustainability. We bridge people across cultures, generations, and professional networks to foster shared understanding and create room for a more collaborative society. We design interactive workshops, facilitate inclusive meetings, map social networks, and steer collaborative projects.
Why “Community Kinetics”?
Communities are the foundation of life, co-dependence, and coming together around a common interest. Community Kinetics was founded with the idea that social networks must be in motion in order for a community to be “active” or “alive,” even kinetic.
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” Isaac Newton
My services
Workshops: We design and facilitate inclusive and engaging problem-solving workshops that bring together scientists, community groups, and professionals to collaborate and find alignment in their efforts toward a common goal.
Meeting and Coalition facilitation: We facilitate meetings in ways that honor everyone’s right to be heard, elevating overlooked perspectives and fostering shared growth.
Social Network Mapping: We map existing and future stakeholder relationships within a community network.
Qualitative data collection: Collecting and cataloguing stories from stakeholders using co-design processes, including immersive engagement, surveys, workshops, and focus groups.
Social Sustainability Consulting: We advise on how to strengthening stakeholder relationships by tapping into existing networks and resources, rather than creating new ones.
Contact rosie@communitykinetics.com for more information.
Our founder, me!
Hello! My name is Rosie Russell and I am the founder of Community Kinetics. I am here to uplift the work of community and organizations, especially those supporting basic needs for our most vulnerable. My expertise is in sustainability, equity, engagement, and planning, so I like to ask the prying big-picture questions, like, what are you trying to sustain and how will you do it?
In my work, I collect and analyze qualitative data (in response to questions like that), map social networks, co-design equitable stakeholder engagement, and foster mutual understanding across multi-disciplinary networks.
I am curious and enjoy learning. About anything really, but mostly intriguing ideas, concepts, and ways of thinking. Which is one reason I earned my B.S. in Sustainable Development from Buena Vista University and my M.S. in Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
I enjoy taking what I learn and presenting it back in a way that provides a new vantage point to view one’s world. I have over six years of watershed management planning experience; I have co-founded and co-facilitated numerous organizations aiming to support collaboration, systems thinking, and social equity; and I routinely present about my work and research at conferences, universities, and schools. I am open to working almost anywhere, but thoroughly enjoy connecting with people in person, a profound experience!
Email: rosie@communitykinetics.com
Location
Community Kinetics is based in the St. Croix River Valley, a beautiful region that supports a diverse network of plants, animals, people, institutions, and infrastructure.
Water, food, energy, and clean air are consistently threatened by unsustainable, inefficient development, which disproportionately impacts our most vulnerable residents.
I love this region, and am committed to its sustainable prosperity for generations to come.
the view from Interstate State Park in St. Croix Falls, WI, photographed by Rosie Russell
