About Dream & Scheme
Dream & Scheme grew out of more than 15 years of collective experience facilitating young adult service programs. As a team, we have worked with folks of all ages and life stages to support discernment - from youth to elders considering life after retirement. Our practice is iterative and creative, centering commitments to antiracism, decolonization, repairing harm, and taking time to rest and play.
Alison Wood (they/them) - Alison is a facilitator, schemer, and educator rooted in the U.S./Mexico borderlands on Tohono O’odham land colonially called Tucson, Arizona. Outside of Dream & Scheme, they work as a faculty associate at the Arizona State University School of Social Work and as a baker at a local coffee shop. Alison is called to community tending and deep listening while holding space for rest and silliness. Alison built their vocational discernment passion and skills over ten years of work with young adults in year long service corps, elders in mainline Protestant churches, and people of all ages surviving burnout in non-profit agencies. Alison maintains their resilience with haphazard arts and crafts, walks in the desert, and group viewings of trashy television.
Luke Rembold (he/him) - Luke is an educator, youth leader, and advocate for the leadership of young people in our churches and communities. A child of two educators, Luke is passionate about the intersection of education and faith, and fervently believes education has the power to transform our communities and the world. He currently serves as the youth and young adult ministry coordinator for the Presbytery of Santa Fe, while also spending a lot of time in the New Mexico sun teaching tennis at the Tennis Club of Albuquerque. Luke enjoys caring for his houseplants, listening to and playing music, and taking camping getaways as methods to sustain his resilience.
Collaborations
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The Hearth Silver City
The Hearth offers accessible, affordable space for rest, restoration, and reconnection in the foothills of the Gila National Forest. Visit The Hearth’s website to find out more about the mission and to sign up for updates.
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Young Adult Transformation Collective
The Young Adult Transformation Collective connects, resources, and equips participating locally-led transformation programs. The collective has grown out of decades of experience in young adult transformation, acknowledgement of and determined resistance against the climate chaos and rising boldness of white supremacy, and a recognition that young adults are seeking meaningful experiences that equip them to change the world.
Our commitment to redistributing resources:
Dream & Scheme is incorporated on the unceded homelands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui peoples. Our current collaborators are white-bodied people who benefit from generational wealth. As a small act of repair, and to recognize how we benefit from the dominant culture, 10% of every contract with Dream & Scheme will be donated to a local justice organization led by global majority community members.