Dr. Nicole Rawls
Organizational Doula · Cultural Strategist · StoryWeaver
Dr. Nicole Rawls
My name is Dr. Nicole Rawls and I am a storyteller who comes from a line of storytellers who weave and tell stories in many different ways. As an anthropologist, astrologer and artist, I draw on ethnography, structural analysis, astrology, and creative practices to examine and explore a central question that sits at the heart of my work:
What does it mean to be human outside the colonial project?
I help individuals and organizations navigate the life-death cycle of societal and organizational transitions. In that process, I help people center their humanity through the body and use that embodied knowledge lens to imagine and build more humane structures and systems within the institutions they inhabit.
My individual work focuses on helping people learn how to Become Human again by learning how to work with their own discernment as a way to trust oneself, through my astrological and ritual construction offering, alongside teachings housed in my Embodied Futures Lab
My work with organizations helps them Navigate Change through a human-centered lens. As an Organizational Death Doula, Cultural Strategist, and StoryWeaver my work spans across organizational and political strategy, leadership advising, ethnographic research, facilitation, cultural assessment, and storytelling. My approach is grounded in over 20 years of experience working across institutions, within communities, and through creative spaces.
At the heart of my practice is Embodied Strategic Dreaming™, a praxis-based methodology I developed to help people turn towards and learn how to work with their first technology - the body - as a way of navigating change. It is a way to work with change instead of relying upon prescribed steps that are resistant to it.
I am the founder of the Embodied Futures Lab and I am also currently completing my first book, Reclaiming My Wild: Parables of a Journey to Self.
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Ways To Work With Me
I offer strategic advising and consulting services for organizations, institutions, and individuals who are in the midst of change - whether it be when old ways of working no longer fit, a new direction is emerging, or the stories and structures that have shaped an institution need reexamining. I help strategize human-centered approaches when dealing with these transitions. For more book a consultation call and see how we can work together.
I love connecting with people in-person and online. I am available for speaking and facilitation events, including interviews relevant to my work. see topics I can cover and ways to book me here!
Speaking/Facilitation
I am a trained Western Tropical Whole Signs astrologer who looks at the chart through a Black Queer Anthropological lens. I offer a number of astrological and spiritual services to help people learn how to call down and work with their own Spirit (head) as a way to reclaim their humanity. For more please see here.
Teachings/Lab
I am a praxis based scholar who explores the question of what it means to be human outside the colonial project. I do so through my Patreon - The Embodied Futures Lab - alongside my weekly show “Yappin w/ the Stars”, my writings, social commentary, and public events.
“Yappin w/ the Stars” - Watch the latest episode!
Welcome to Yappin' with the Stars, the show where I talk about what it means, and takes, for us to become human once again in a world that is tryin to convince us all this is it.
I'm your host and guide, Nicole Rawls, PhD (https://www.drnicolerawls.com/)— a storyteller who comes from a line of storytellers who weave and tell stories in many different ways, and as an anthropologist, astrologer and artist.
I work with astrology and ethnography to explore the stories of what it means for us to be human.
Cause right now the present is up for grabs, so who is leading the stories that will bring us into our futures?
Every week, we check into the chaos we call society and ask: What's the cosmos showing us this week?
Where are we being called to move, create, burn, build, OR reflect on.
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For new beginnings to emerge, space must be made. Which means endings have to be honored. My work helps individuals and organizations move through this death process as a way to create new life.
I am an Organizational Death Doula, Cultural Strategist, Anthropologist, and Storyweaver. My work is for leaders, visionaries, artists, and/or organizations who understand that the present is up for grabs, and you/they want to be the ones leading the stories which will lay the foundations for the systems and structures that create our futures.
Using my praxis-based methodology “Embodied Strategic Dreaming” - which integrates structural analysis, embodied intelligence, and cultural context - I help you see the crossroads you are at as an opportunity to write your own story and enact it.
If you are ready and have a budget for 1-on-1 strategic work, book a consultation call and let's begin.
Note: I do not offer a sliding scale or barter for 1-on-1 services at this time.
