Open Compass cultivates the relationships, structures, and conditions that help people, projects, organizations, and communities flourish.
Strategy • Organizational Development • Relational Design • Facilitation • Community Experiences
Open Compass supports individuals, entrepreneurs, organizations, and communities in strengthening relationships, developing meaningful initiatives, and translating ideas into practical action.
What Are You Navigating?
A business, project, program, or community initiative that needs clarity, structure, strategy, or support to move forward?
Patterns or relationships that need attention?
Recurring challenges in communication, collaboration, or participation that call for greater understanding and more intentional approaches?
A desire to create meaningful connection?
An opportunity to bring people together through gatherings, programs, or shared experiences that encourage authentic participation and belonging?
We Explore. We Co-Create. We Practice.
Co-Creating What Works
There is no universal formula for meaningful change. Each person, relationship, organization, and community brings unique experiences, values, needs, and circumstances. What works for one may not work for another.
At Open Compass, we approach challenges and possibilities through curiosity, collaboration, and practical experimentation. Drawing on strategic guidance, organizational development, relational inquiry, facilitation, and experiential practices, we explore what’s happening, what matters, and what might become possible.
Through conversation, movement, creative exercises, facilitated gatherings, reflection, and hands-on planning, we create opportunities to discover new perspectives, recognize patterns, and develop meaningful responses together.
You bring your lived experience, knowledge, values, and understanding of your circumstances. I bring professional experience, perspective, practical tools, creativity, and structure. Together, we co-create approaches that reflect your needs and aspirations—not simply solutions that look good on paper.
Because meaningful change isn’t something imposed from the outside. It’s something we participate in creating.
And lasting change requires more than insight or good intentions. It calls for approaches that resonate personally, invite ownership, and can be integrated into everyday life and work—practiced, revisited, and adapted as circumstances evolve.
The goal isn’t simply to find a solution. It’s to create something meaningful, workable, and sustainable for the people who will carry it forward.
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How Can Open Compass Support You?
STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT
Strategy, organizational development, program design, communications, and implementation support for entrepreneurs, organizations, and community builders.
GATHERING DESIGN
Thoughtfully designed workshops, retreats, community gatherings, and events that invite connection, creativity, and participation.
RELATIONAL DESIGN
Relational Mapping, communication, facilitated dialogue, and collaborative inquiry for individuals, couples, partnerships, and teams.
Our Process
From awareness to intentional action.
Meaningful change begins with understanding what’s happening, recognizing what matters, and developing ways to move forward.
Our five-stage process offers a flexible framework for exploring challenges, developing possibilities, and bringing intentional change into practice.
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Before rushing toward solutions, we slow down and create room to observe what’s happening, including the patterns, assumptions, and reactions shaping our experience.
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We explore the relationships, perspectives, needs, resources, and conditions influencing the situation, making visible what may have previously gone unnoticed.
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We identify shared priorities, clarify what matters, and explore how values, goals, responsibilities, and available resources can work together.
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Together, we develop practical strategies, structures, agreements, programs, or experiences that respond to what we’ve discovered.
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We put new approaches into practice, observe their effects, learn from experience, and make adjustments that support meaningful, sustainable change.
How I Work
My work is relational, interdisciplinary, and collaborative. We begin by slowing down enough to understand what matters most — your purpose, your values, and the deeper WHY beneath the work. From there, we clarify, co-design, and develop practical next steps that feel aligned and sustainable.
A SIGNATURE OPEN COMPASS PROCESS
Relational Mapping
Relationships are not problems to be solved.
When rupture, tension, uncertainty, or imbalance emerges, we often move quickly toward explanation, resolution, or repair. But before asking What should we do?, there can be tremendous value in asking: What is actually here?
There is often much to understand before deciding what needs to be repaired — or whether repair is even what is being asked of us.
Relational Mapping invites us to slow down and make the invisible visible: illuminating the relationships, patterns, needs, influences, resources, tensions, and conditions shaping the larger relational system.
Yes, sometimes talking helps. And oftentimes, seeing the system changes the conversation entirely. When we can see more of what is here, we have more choice in how we participate in what comes next.
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About Aubrey
Aubrey Sabre is the founder of Open Compass, a relational facilitator, interdisciplinary practitioner, and student of Transformative Leadership.
Her work has emerged through years of community organizing, communications, event and program development, embodied practice, herbalism, motherhood, and the ongoing study of how humans create meaning and relationship within living systems.
Open Compass brings these threads together around one central inquiry:
What conditions help people become more aware, connected, collaborative, and fully alive?
What we’re exploring
What conditions help living systems flourish?
Open Compass explores how relationships, environments, structures, stories and patterns shape what becomes possible—and how more conscious participation can change what emerges.
We envision a world where connection and interdependence are treated as essential to how we live, work, relate, learn and build community.
Start a Conversation
Every Open Compass engagement begins with a conversation. We’ll explore what you’re navigating, what you hope to create, and whether there’s a meaningful way to work together.
“Togetherness is at the root of all I do, and the way in which I choose to move through the world. We need one another.”
— Aubrey S.