We want to give feet to your dreams. Bring your vision to Counterflow so we can connect you with the people and tools to bring it into existence.

We’ll help you build a supportive, not restrictive, framework using a participatory process. We’ll help your program adapt to emerging community needs.

This tool, first created by Krebs & Holly, and customized by Counterflow, creates a visual way to see community links.

It intentionally elevates and centers the voices closest to the issue—who are often closest to the solutions. We shift the paradigm by amplifying vital voices that are often left out.

The current mechanisms to present community work to funders and supporters often fall short of conveying the true healing that happens at the grassroots. Words and graphs can paint only part of the story, and often word count restrictions and technical requirements further stifle creative storytelling. Counterflow Media will center and amplify your story.

Counterflow can create clean, easy to use websites that center your story. Whatever service or product you offer, whatever style you fancy, we can create a professional yet affordable website that increases your reach. Portfolio:

Operation Gateway

Deep Time

Ben Phan Studios

We connect people and agencies doing community work to the funds that will enable them to build a stable and solid foundation. We help you think beyond common avenues of funding to intentionally bolster financial support directly into your organization and the community it serves.

Counterflow will elevate your work and bring it to life by sharing staff and participant experiences with traditional and out-of-the-box data/experience collection methods. We help you humanize the challenges that gave rise to your organization and celebrate stories of resilience. Counterflow reduces the distance between people and powerful funding entities by weaving connections that inspire authentic investment that goes beyond economic support.

Using a creative mix of deliberative participation methods and the full array of qualitative and quantitative feedback, Counterflow will help you ensure that your program is evolving to meet the changing needs of your participants in sync with your local community ecosystem.

We center the “expert by experience” voice with an infusion of “expert by professional practice” and learning from what has worked elsewhere in the world in a similar setting. With this approach, you can be confident that your program utilizes shared wisdom from near and far while harnessing the local talent and meeting the nuanced desire and needs of your community.

To be a credible messenger in the community takes the caliber of expertise that comes from lived experience. The therapeutic value of someone who has overcome similar challenges to the population served is unparalleled. This has been recognized recently in the front lines with an infusion of Peer Support Specialists and Community Health Workers. Yet when it comes to organizational direction and decision-making, lived experience often must hide behind traditional education and power structures.

Counterflow has rich experience successfully integrating Lived Expertise into Clinical and Social Work. This lets us unlock the insight of Lived Expertise with the right level of autonomy and support in every facet of an organization.

In our society today, a focus on effectiveness and efficiency can keep us from building relationships, particularly with those who we see as “different.” Connection, creativity, and tuning in to intuition take time and space. We help your organization find spaces to pause and plan with intention.

From facilitated board retreats to regular meaning-making time for small and large teams, Counterflow will help you find the eddies to pause and connect, and the oxygenating white water to reinvigorate your flow with diverse perspectives.