Help your community thrive.

Hi, I’m Seth!

Building a flourishing, inclusive, and equitable community takes hard work and quality leadership.

I offer coaching & training on the internal, interpersonal, and organizing skills that help community leaders be successful and resilient.

Whether you’re starting a community garden, leading a nonprofit, organizing neighbors around an issue that’s important to your community, or running for local office – if you want to experience more success, ease, and joy, I’ve got your back!

I can help you…

Go from wishing for a connected, thriving community to experiencing it.

✨ Clarify your vision for your community and the part you’d love to play, so you can use your energy wisely.

🌱 Take consistent, focused action to bring your vision to life.

🏠 Talk to your neighbors and build meaningful relationships with ease, so you can enjoy the process of building community.

🤩 Lead in a way that helps others to be leaders too, so that a sense of empowerment spreads throughout your community.

✊🏼 Center justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in your approach to community organizing, so that your actions are consistently in service of liberation for your community.

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Gracefully navigate “sticky” and challenging interactions that naturally come up in communities, so you can orient towards healing and building trust.

🌞 Work in a way that is sustainable, easeful, and joyous — so you can enjoy your life as you make a difference.

🏃🏻 Stay in it for the long haul and harmonize your community work with doing everything else that’s important to you.

🎨 Be creative about practicing direct democracy, mutual aid, and inclusion even when it seems hard to do.

My clients are (or want to be)…

Picture of young people holding a yellow banner with red words that say "we demand fair development". They are leading marchers with more signs behind them.

working to create a thriving community that is resilient to challenges caused by broken economic systems, racial injustice, climate change, and crumbling infrastructure.

uprooting unjust systems and creating new economies and ways to care for one another that center justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Picture of four people tending a garden. One person is handing another person a plant while someone waters and another person with a shovel looks on.

having a great time getting their hands dirty and helping neighbors work together to create belonging, beauty, and abundance.

This includes community organizers, neighbors practicing mutual aid, faith leaders, local elected officials, progressive political campaigners, community gardeners, public transit advocates, librarians, “artivists”, 

…or anyone working to create a healthy, thriving community where people take good care of each other.

What My Clients Are Saying

  • "Seth helped me see what I wanted, and to stay on track to achieve my goals. Seth is kind and caring while not being afraid to give that little push when you need it."

    Pele IrgangLaden, Organizing Director at PA Stands Up

  • "Seth is an encouraging and motivating coach who cares deeply about creating a more life-sustaining world. I came away from each of our sessions feeling energized and more focused."

    Amy Shearer

  • "Seth’s incredible sense of humor and ability to truly see me for who I am underneath the mental fog of fear and worry is such a gift. With that kind of support, what seems impossible becomes possible!"

    Amanda W, Wildland Firefighter

  • "I find myself feeling more confident, balanced, and focused than ever before. I would recommend coaching with Seth to anyone in my life!"

    Melissa Benjamin, Chief of Staff at Change.org

  • "Terrified by the uncertainty of the climate crisis, I was stuck spinning my wheels and incredibly exhausted by the world. Seth helped me slow down, really look at the work ahead, and find the small sweet step to take."

    Natalie Davenport

  • "Working with Seth I was able to break down what felt like an insurmountable challenge into many manageable steps. I highly recommend Seth to people who are doing - or want to do - the work our communities need."

    Evan Seitz, Organizer/Farmer

  • "Seth is that rare coach whose deep knowledge of methodology does not interfere with his empathy and creativity."

    Ellen Chapnick, Changing the Conversation Together

  • "Our team’s workshop with Seth was an incredibly helpful and eye-opening experience, and we are now able to take intentional steps toward accomplishing our goals for the future."

    John Creasy, Garfield Community Farm

  • "Our time with Seth was one of the most MASTERFUL cat-herding, multitasking, on-the-fly-thinking, viewpoint-accomodating, and supportive displays of facilitation I have ever witnessed."

    350 Pittsburgh Member

  • "Seth is engaging, talented, and effective. I could not be happier with the workshop that he did for us!"

    Katie Robb Sewall, Program Coordinator, PULSE Pittsburgh

Let’s connect!

I love connecting with folks, and we can talk about whatever you’d like, whether that’s coaching for you or something else. Complete the form below, and I’ll be in touch ASAP.

Image Credits: Food distro photo by Ismael Paramo on Unsplash, protest photo by United Workers, garden photo from Canva. Other images by Seth Bush or used with permission.