Who Am I?
When we can connect to one another, see our situations within broader patterns, and identify our stake in changing those, we create new possibilities. I want to support you to do just that.
My professional experience spans sectors - youth development in nonprofits, equity work in local government, and board service in arts and spiritual organizations. I also serve as an Associate at Dendros Group, and my consulting practice borrows from the facilitation I do with young people as an Apprenticeship Coordinator at Urban Boatbuilders.
In all of these spaces, I have been deeply engaged in both internal- and external-facing change processes, including but not limited to organizational restructuring, coalition advocacy for budget and policy wins, and staff organizing for improved working conditions. Having worked for change in and with multiple sectors and organization sizes, I know that this work is never finished, and the process through which we get there matters as much as our supposed destination.
I build my facilitation practice out of tools from my diverse range of experiences - I want us to bring our full bodies, selves, histories, and traditions into a space, and draw from the wisdom those hold.
Beyond this, who am I? I am a white, Jewish, anti-Zionist, and temporarily abled transmasculine nerd. I grew up in Lenapehoking (unceded Lenape land currently called Pennsylvania) and have lived for the last decade in Mni Sota Makoce (unceded Dakota land and Anishinaabe territory currently called Minnesota).
And who are we as a whole? Stone Kohn Consulting is part of a larger ecosystem of facilitators, evaluators, coaches, and consultants with shared values. We believe collaboration across different approaches makes our work stronger and allows us to better customize our offerings to exactly what you need. Past and current partners include Dendros Group, Freya & Co, Facilitation by Devika, and Sustain Studio.
I’m Milo (mee-lo, they/he pronouns), founder of Stone Kohn Consulting. I’m a facilitator, youth worker, and community organizer. The theme between those roles? Individual and collective transformation.
“In both session planning and facilitation, Milo brings years of hands on experience navigating intersecting group identities and building a safe space for powerful and challenging conversations…I can’t recommend Milo enough for your facilitation needs short or long term, large or small scale. His ability to build trust, carry a thread, cultivate curiosity, and follow through on his word make him a powerful partner in meeting your facilitation needs.”
- Resource Generation MN Praxis Cohort Lead
Why the name?
Stone Kohn Consulting is named for two of my (many) middle names and for the boundaried wisdom and simultaneous permeability of stone. Rocks break down from water and wind, grow moss on their surface and plants through their cracks, and hold imprints from generations past.
In the Stone Kohn Consulting logo, a nettle plant grows from stone. Nettles have a long history in Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish communities where my ancestors are from and are also native to Mni Sota Makoce, where I am now a settler. I am descended from facilitators and teachers, lineages of harm and repair, and complex families who developed their own conflict resolution and held official family “meetings”. This heritage shapes me, and it shapes the work I do. I think of the Jewish framework of doikayt, or “hereness”. In the words of Jewish artists Aurora Levins Morales and Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes), “doikayt means we nourish where we land.” I am committed to a facilitation practice rooted in the contexts I come from and accountable to the communities and contexts I exist in now.
