Alison Avigayil Carmel Ramer

I’m a companion for those called to create, care, or transform.
With strategic support, I help people bring sacred work into the world—whether you’re crafting a new offering, grieving what is lost, or listening for what’s next.

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Services

Soul & Strategy for a World in Transition

I work with individuals, organizations and communities navigating change, complexity, and creative emergence. My approach integrates deep listening, political clarity, strategic insight, and embodied creation.

With over 15 years of experience across social justice, international development, human rights, philanthropy, and tech, I bring a unique systems-level lens to individual growth and collective transformation.

Companionship

Support for the in-between places—where clarity comes in whispers, and a new way of being begins to emerge.

I accompany people through seasons of transition, listening for what’s real, what’s ready, and what’s being reborn. These sessions are gentle, strategic, and deeply attuned—an invitation to return to yourself while imagining what’s next.

Shabbatical Design
Bringing rhythms of rest into your life, taking a season of rest, relocating, or redesigning your life’s rhythm, I help you shape the spaciousness you need—with intention, creativity, and purpose.
Crossroads Navigation
Support in major life transitions: ending a relationship, leaving a job, grieving a role, or stepping into something unknown. Together, we listen for what's unraveling, name what's intact, and chart the shape of what's to come.
Spiritual Accompaniment
For those in spiritual disorientation, reawakening, or deepening. Rooted in mystical Judaism, interfaith wisdom, and sacred listening, this is space for discernment, soul questions, and reconnecting with your inner compass.
Purpose Realignment
If your work no longer reflects your soul, we explore the mismatch with honesty and care. These sessions help refine your direction, clarify your impact, and align your outer offerings with your inner truth.
Creative Renewal
We’ll explore what wants to be made through you now, clear creative blockages, and design a process that nurtures both discipline and inspiration.

Spiritual Practice

Rituals for when the ground shifts beneath us

In moments of upheaval, beauty, or becoming, we need more than strategy—we need ceremony. I offer sacred space for individuals and communities to mark change, honor grief, and root into resilience. These rituals draw from Jewish mysticism, ancestral wisdom, and earth-honoring traditions.

Transitions & Thresholds
Ceremonies to mark life’s turning points: divorce, job changes, death, new life, migration or return.
Ancestral & Lineage Healing
Rituals to reconnect with your roots, untangle inherited patterns, and walk forward in right relationship with your lineage.
Life-Cycle Rituals
From birth blessings to death vigils, from coming-of-age to midlife mikvahs—creating sacred moments that honor body, spirit, and story.
Reflection & Intention-Setting Gatherings
Spaces to pause, recalibrate, and set intention in rhythm with the natural world.
Collective Mourning for Earth & Justice
Ceremonies to grieve ecological loss, political despair, and activist burnout—offered at land sites or virtually, rooted in resilience and remembrance.

Movement Resourcing

Cultivating a culture of enough—resourcing movements with strategy and soul

Together we’ll identify your needs, make a plan and bring it into the world to help resource you’re work.

Strategic Fundraising Design
Build integrated development plans that align with your mission—from grants and donor strategy to campaigns and communications.
Donor Engagement & Stewardship
Cultivate meaningful relationships with major donors and communities alike, grounded in trust, shared values, and long-term connection.
Fundraising Coaching & Mentorship
Support for leaders and development staff to grow with confidence—offering tools, training, and heart-centered guidance.
Healing Scarcity Culture
Workshops and retreats exploring fundraising as spiritual practice—unlearning transactional models and embracing a culture of enough.

Community Creation

Helping you build cultures of belonging—with care, creativity, and collective trust

Culture isn't built by accident—it’s woven with intention, ritual, and relationship. Whether you're tending an existing circle or dreaming a new gathering into being, I’ll help you design agreements, rituals, and structures that nourish connection, spirit, and sustainable leadership.

Community Agreements & Relational Trust
Guidance for creating living agreements rooted in shared values, care, and collective accountability.
Earth-Based Rituals for Connection and Care
Support in designing rituals—including song, dance, and embodied practice—that anchor belonging and creative expression.
Retreats, Pilgrimages, and Festivals
Development of gatherings that strengthen relationships, renew spirit, and prepare people for deeper service to their communities.
Relational Leadership & Stewardship Models
Mentorship for cultivating leadership rooted in collaboration, sustainability, and shared responsibility.
Conflict Transformation & Restorative Practices
Support in designing healing-centered processes that nurture repair, resilience, and long-term trust.
Working Together
Every community has its own rhythms and needs. I offer one-on-one consultations, ongoing mentorship, and collaborative design support—whether you are shaping a single gathering, reweaving community culture, or dreaming something new into life.

Tending Vision

Weaving strategy with spirit to cultivate cultures of wholeness

I’ll help you navigate complexity with clarity—where values meet systems, and repair becomes a form of leadership.

Strategic Visioning
Planning from the soul of your mission: practical, emergent, and aligned with the long arc of justice.
Transitions
Tending the in-between: succession, stewardship, and structural change with integrity.
Team Culture & Repair
Facilitating healing-centered processes, conflict transformation, and collective renewal.
Sustainable Creation
Anti-burnout frameworks, regenerative rhythms, and wellness infrastructures aligned with earth-based rhythms.

Creative Direction

Helping you bring your vision to life—with soul, story, and symbolic clarity

Let’s uncover the mythic threads, emotional truth, and visual language of your work. Whether you're mid-creation or just beginning, I’ll help you listen for what wants to emerge and craft a visual identity that’s both powerful and aligned.

Story Coaching & Narrative Clarity
Deep-dive sessions to distill your message, refine your arc, and uncover the soul of your offering.
Storytelling for Mission-Driven Creatives
Find your voice in the digital wild. Develop language and imagery that aligns with your work’s deeper purpose.
Creative Project Development
Ongoing support as you bring a major offering into the world: a book, ritual series, art installation, podcast, or course.
Advocacy & Campaigns
Support in shaping strategy, storytelling, and public offerings that move people and systems.

Upcoming events

Collective Mourning

Friday, April 4th 9:30 - 11:00 am PST
Online
Join me at the Social Change Sanctuary for a practice of collective mourning for collective liberation. Together we will grieve and practice holding space for gratitude in this difficult time.

Through song, prayer, ritual and sharing we will metabolize our grief and turn our tears of pain into a sea of change.

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MANNA Passover Pilgrimage Festival

April 17 - 20
Cuyama Valley, California
A non-institutional, pluralistic, post-denominational, pop-up festival, following in the thousands year old lineage of seasonal Jewish Gatherings. Drawing on the wisdom of our ancestors, we gather to embrace collective liberation - freeing ourselves from the narrow places and remembering ourselves as the unique expressions of the divine.

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Kol Retreat

May 9 - 11
Berkeley, California
Join me for a weekend of music, Shabbat practices, and community building. This unique participatory retreat brings together singers, musicians, and learners of diverse backgrounds and ages to explore both ancestral and modern Jewish music. I’ll be sharing the history of mourning in music and how to use music to move through grief.

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“Alison is one of those rare role models you find yourself learning from with each interaction, because of the way they interact with the web of life. Intentional and deep, with humility and levity, Alison is among the first I reach out to for support navigating big choices in these dynamic times.”

Andrew Dunn, School of Wise Innovation
“Alison laid strategic tracks to help this startup accelerate into a much bigger thing. She’s brilliant at understanding the future and organising a company today to have maximum success tomorrow. Aside from her pro skills, she’s also deeply empathic, understanding and a great fit for purpose driven companies”

Yusuf Omar - founder of SEEN
Alison brought balance and clarity to our team, tackling daunting challenges with strategic insight and a creative, patient approach. Her passion, kindness, and care for our staff made it a true pleasure to work with her.

Charlotte Maher
“A brilliant creative professional with the ability to create big picture concepts and then break those concepts down into real world plans. Alison's high-level technical abilities and skills include web design, graphic design, social media, writing and event planning and creation.”

Matthew Metz - Founder and Executive Director at Coltura
“Alison has been a pleasure to work with time and time again. She is communicative, organized, creative, and well-connected. She is dependable and is able to execute projects from A to Z successfully and efficiently. I have invited her to speak to delegations on several occasions and she has charmed leaders with her compassion and personality.”

Alexandra Saieh - Head of Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy at Save the Children
“Part life-coach, part technology tutor, part branding guru, Alison is a wonderful resource for anyone working on making their business vision a reality. They say a goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline, and thanks to Alison’s planning and experienced guidance, my dream to develop a sustainable lifestyles company has become a reality.”

Julia B - Sustainability Entrepreneur