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Hey,
Welcome!
I help leaders transform how they lead so that they can navigate uncertainty - in the middle of a climate emergency.
For 20+ years, I've worked on the frontlines of crisis - the kind of work where you learn what actually holds people together when systems fail them.
I wasn't just reading about these theories. Or only sitting in best practice trainings.
I was practicing real relationship-building under real pressure while also keeping in mind my relationship with the land and how to prepare for the crisis of climate change.
Now I teach leaders how to do the same.
I love seeing people do work they love, and for a lot of my life didn't think that I would get to do work that was important to me. I later found out this is a shared sentiment among folks who have various marginalized identities - so I wanted to share a little more about me in case you don't see yourself as a changemaker because you feel unqualified to create a just and sustainable future - you aren't, and there are a lot of experiences that make you uniquely qualified for your role in future building!
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Being the eldest daughter and aunty in a large family meant I grew up as a caregiver and educator. It taught me to lead with responsibility, patience, and compassion while challenging who oppressive systems told me I "should" be.
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Being an immigrant from a place where gas, electricity, and running water weren't always available, my family practiced “preparedness” daily - but they just called it being resourceful. This perspective is what now informs how I guide others through uncertainty.
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Being a front-line mental health worker taught me to make grounded decisions under pressure and build resilience in systems that often weren’t built to care for us.
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Being a community builder and artist, I learned that relationships and creativity are as essential as logistics - it allows us to see beyond survival, build more equitable systems, and move toward liberation.
I've learned through formal education and lived experience that what holds people through crisis isn't better plans.
It's deeper relationships. Not individual resilience, but collective care.
That's what I teach.
My Story
My Education
Post Secondary
B.A. Intercultural Studies
M.Ed. Arts for Social Change
Certificate in Community Capacity Building
Trainings
The Art of Hosting
Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
Trauma Informed Facilitation
Decolonize First
Somatic Abolitionism
Theater of the Oppressed
... And many, many more
How I Work
I weave together:
→ Land-informed practices (relationship with place, not just strategy)
→ Trauma-informed approaches (nervous system awareness, embodied practice)
→ Justice-oriented frameworks (examining power, addressing inequity)
→ Creative tools (imagination, play, storytelling—not just plans)
So leaders can build capacity for a fundamentally different way of working.
My Values
Solidarity
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I believe preparedness is collective. We can only thrive when our communities, future generations, and the land thrive too. In my work, this means helping teams build equity-rooted practices that recognize differences in power, privilege, and capacity.
Creativity
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Every crisis requires imagination. I bring arts-based, future-building tools that help leaders and organizations move from overwhelm to possibility - designing responses that are innovative, practical, and just.
Sovereignty
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Liberation means choice. I create spaces where individuals and groups can make empowered decisions, while practicing accountability to each other and to the collective.
Care
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Preparedness must center care. I guide communities and organizations to strengthen relationships, reciprocity, and resource-sharing - so people feel supported, not isolated, in times of change.
A bit more about me:
I'm Daniela Guerrero-Rodriguez (she/they), a queer Latine immigrant born on the lands of the Huetar-speaking peoples (colonially known as Costa Rica).
I now live and work as a settler on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (colonially known as Vancouver, BC).
My lived experience—as an immigrant, a queer person, someone of mixed Central American Indigenous, West African, Jewish, and European ancestry—deeply informs how I understand systems of power, who gets to lead, and what transformation actually requires.
This work is personal, and political.
