The Capacity Consortium | Cultivating Capacity Over Comfort

Courageous conversations are happening in private—in my offices, in your group texts, in hallways after the meeting with a trusted peer. 2026 is the year we go public. Not because we have all the answers. Because we have the courage to ask the question:

What if feeling better follows doing better—not the other way around?

The Behave Forward Framework

There is no such thing as a dangerous emotion.

"I don't feel safe" has become an unassailable claim—unfalsifiable, unquestionable, conversation over.
Pain has become currency. Suffering has become identity. The most wounded voice wins.
Emotions are data, not danger. The problem is never the feeling—it's what we do with it.

Empathy is a thinking thing, not a feeling thing.

Feeling someone else's pain is emotional contagion, not empathy.
Empathy is a decision—a choice to honor that someone's experience has merit, weight, and value.
You can understand without absorbing. That's the skill.

Behavior is human currency.

We think inaccurate things. We feel disproportionate things. This is being human.
What we do—how we act, what we say—is the only contract we actually have with each other.
Everyone can learn to behave forward in spite of what they think and feel.

Who This Is For

Clinicians who love the work but question what the field has become

Leaders exhausted by conversations they can only have behind closed doors

HR professionals who suspect the policies aren't working

Educators watching resilience disappear from their classrooms

Anyone who's been called "brave" for saying something obvious in private