KAIROS CONSULTING
REWILDING EDUCATION.
It is time for a change.
We are experiencing a Kairos - a turning point in the evolution of education.
The conventional approach to learning is now out of touch with the world.
My mission is to bring education back to life.
I help educators, leaders, and change-makers reimagine the learning process
through relational design, deep mentoring, and wisdom-based pedagogy.
What is Kairos Consulting?
Kairos Consulting bridges theory and practice by helping organizations and leaders design for wholeness, resilience, and transformation.
We offer consulting, facilitation, education design, and strategic support to help you align your mission, regenerate your culture, and evolve your systems.
If you care about the soul of your work, this is for you
What we offer.
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Rethink curriculum, structure, and space
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Design developmental pathways rooted in wholeness.
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Training educators to become guides who thrive in uncertainty
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Integrate vision, system, story, pedagogy, and roles.
What we do.
Rewilding education through wisdom-based consulting.
we help you build learning ecosystems that are alive, grounded, resilient, and relevant.
Why it matters
We are not in an era of simple change— we are in an era of complexity, uncertainty, and transformation.
We acknowledge that Education has become institutionalized, fragile, fragmented, and disembodied.
We help leaders and educators remember that learning is alive, relational, and sacred.
We restore the natural process of learning and human development through frameworks drawn from cutting-edge science, ancestral practices, and the wisdom of nature.
[Read the Full Manifesto]
education is evolving.
The Evolving Education Framework
The gap between learning and living is a product of our educational paradigm, not a reflection of reality itself. Reimagining education as an evolving process grounded in embodied and embedded experience, means we can dissolve the illusion of separation and reconnect learners with the world they are already part of.
Nature-based or alternative schools
Progressive learning communities
Educational start-ups or regenerative programs
Facilitators, guides, or curriculum designers
Organizational leaders rethinking culture or governance
Coaches, mentors, or elders building village-scale wisdom systems
Is This for You?
Whether this is just what you have been looking for or you are interested in learning more, I am excited to explore possibilities with you.
Begin in 3 Steps:
Explore our core offerings or request a conversation
Share your needs, challenges, and desired outcomes
Request a proposal and Co-create a process that serves your purpose and people
What Others are Saying.
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“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”
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“Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.”
Change efforts often fail—not because people aren’t smart, but because the deeper story, structure, and soul are misaligned.
Kairos Consulting helps you avoid:
Shallow strategy disconnected from purpose
Burnout in visionary leadership
Friction between mission, method, and culture
Solutions that ignore the living complexity of human systems
We don’t just build structures. We build story-informed systems that serve the whole.
Next Event : Mentoring First
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Stop Teaching
Traditional education prioritizes abstract knowledge before experience, leaving learners disconnected from meaning and mastery. It's time to break free from propositional tyrany and rediscover the natural way humans learn — through direct engagement, lived experience, and deep connection.
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Start Mentoring
Learning thrives in relationships where wisdom is passed through experience, reflection, and guidance. Mentorship is not just an alternative to teaching — it’s the fundamental unit of culture. It is the key to fostering lifelong growth, real-world competence, and the organic emergence of wholeness.
FAQs
Do you work with traditional institutions?
Yes—when there is openness to deep dialogue and change. We specialize in alternative and regenerative models, but often partner with progressive schools, nonprofits, or transition-ready teams.
Is this personal or organizational consulting?
Both. We work with individuals, teams, and entire systems depending on need.
Do you offer one-time workshops or long-term consulting?
Both. We recommend starting with a Discovery Session and designing from there.
What makes your approach different?
We integrate philosophy, systems science, nature-based wisdom, developmental psychology, and embodied practice. We consult like mentors, not managers.
Part of An ecology of evolving wisdom
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Primal Wisdom Collective
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The Kairos Guild
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The Evoving Wisdom Project
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Meet your guide.
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Benjamin Sanford is the founder and lead consultant of Kairos Consulting. With a background spanning education, mentoring, nature-based leadership, and systems design, he brings a rare blend of depth, practicality, and pattern recognition to transformative work.
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Kairos Consulting draws on the real-life experiments of the Kairos Guild and the Evolving Wisdom Project—living systems, not just ideas.
(360) 683-7641
(360) 461-1504
benjaminjonsanford@gmail.com
PO Box 693 Carlsborg, WA. 98324
The Time is now
The Kairos is calling and your timing is perfect. Together, we help make it happen.
Whether you’re designing a program, mentoring others, or building a new kind of school— you are not alone.
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