Ideas become conversations.


Conversations create understanding.


Understanding makes change possible.

Permission to Define brings together education, professional training, consulting, collaboration, speaking, and lived-experience advocacy to create opportunities for deeper understanding and meaningful change.


Whether you are looking for a speaker, developing a new program, seeking professional education, or simply have an idea that does not fit neatly into a box, there may be a way for us to work together.

The work begins with curiosity—and a willingness to question what we think we already know.

WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

Education & Professional Training

Move beyond awareness. Build genuine understanding.

Speaking & Presentations

Stories can do more than inspire. They can change the way we understand.

Consulting & Collaboration

Bring lived experience to the table from the beginning.

Workshops & Psychoeducational Programs

Creating opportunities to learn, explore, and understand differently.

Advocacy & Lived-Experience Partnership

Lived experience belongs in the conversation.

Have Something Else in Mind?

Some of the most meaningful work begins with an idea that does not fit neatly into a predefined category.


If you are considering a training, presentation, collaboration, program, or project and believe Permission to Define could bring something meaningful to the conversation, I would love to hear about it.


You do not need to have everything figured out before reaching out. Sometimes the first step is simply starting the conversation.

Start a Conversation