Gather your people. Grow solutions together.
If you lead or support people in humanitarian, human rights, development, climate, or social-impact work, you've felt the shock waves of funding cuts, restructuring, and AI.
Your people are navigating uncertainty, identity shifts, and the pressure to "hold everything together," often without enough support.
Your people are not the problem. They are the solution.
The system is wintering, and winter requires a different way of working.
Hi, I’m Melissa Pitotti.
I help humanitarian and international institutions gather their people and grow solutions together, through peer groups, participatory workshops, and conversations people can host themselves.
Why this matters now:
The old rules no longer apply. The people who support others also need support, clarity, and community to find their way forward together.
Let's create a winter garden for those who support the world.
A winter garden is a place of protection and quiet renewal, where things don't stop growing; they grow differently. It shelters what is fragile and sustains what is essential until conditions improve.
Let's catalyze change, inside and out.
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Peer support for humanitarians and social-impact professionals navigating a difficult season: crowdsourcing solutions, building networks, and learning new ways of working.
Transform together
Participatory workshops and facilitation for teams, networks and funders. We design the conversations. Your people grow the solutions.
Ready to grow solutions together?
Whether you lead a team, a network, or a portfolio of grantees, or you're navigating change yourself, there's a place for you here.
Together, we can build a human-centered, regenerative future for the workforce that supports the world.