About Us

Rooted Belonging Consulting

Our Mission, Vision, & Values

Rooted Belonging’s mission is to consult with schools, organizations, and teams to build strong community foundations and frameworks, handle difficulties and tension, and overcome hardships to promote positive workplace cultures. By providing training, consulting, coaching, facilitation, modeling, and support, RBC aims to build the confidence and skill set of team members to develop a sustainable and thriving community.

Our vision is that all community members will feel empowered to uphold a resilient environment where all individuals feel included, safe, motivated, and celebrated. Community members will have the autonomy and tools to build and maintain sustainable, responsive, and exemplary communities.

Rooted Belonging Consulting, in all of its capacities, is an organization intentionally created under the values of trust, innovation, integrity, and flexibility.

Our Founding story

Discover Our Journey So Far

Jeremy and Kait have worked together since 2022, working across many departments, school sites, and domains within a school district. Their collaboration spans from developing and presenting trainings, facilitating circles, consulting to site leads, administrators, department leads, and district leadership, supporting students of all ages, facilitating harm conferencing, and more.

They bring a balanced, knowledgable, and creative approach to their service delivery, with their priority being to build unique solutions for the populations they serve. Through their varied professional and personal experiences and powerful synergy, they find joy and purpose supporting clients from all sectors and backgrounds. They both approach their work through the lens of positive psychology, transformative coaching, the whole child model, and empowerment.

Clients Coached

Circles Facilitated

People Trained

Conflicts supported

Meet Kait Dugan

Kait has more than a decade of experience in Restorative Justice Practices (RJP), conflict analysis and resolution, education and program management. She holds her M.A. in Peace and Justice from the University of San Diego and is bilingual in Spanish and English. Throughout her career, Kait has implemented extensive Restorative Justice Practices programming, managed advocacy programs, taught in the U.S. and internationally, conducted research, and overseen global project monitoring and evaluation initiatives.

She prioritizes trauma-informed care, cultural humility, holistic community care and evidence-based practices in her work. She is passionate about creating supportive spaces where all people feel a sense of belonging and where individuals are empowered to learn and practice active accountability and relationship building.

Her key values are: growth, vulnerability, kindness, self-awareness, and authenticity.

Meet Jeremy Tadrous

Jeremy’s work experience over the last 13 years has been in education, organizational training, behavior consultation, mental health, and transformative justice. He holds a Bachelor’s from Northeastern University in Behavioral Neuroscience, a Master’s from Simmons College in Behavior Analysis, and a certificate from the University of San Diego in Restorative Justice Leadership and Facilitation.

His professional expertise includes behavior therapy, positive psychology, de-escalation, communication, building equitable systems, harm repair, trauma-informed care and client-centered support. He brings his passion for multi-media art, music, self-expression, cooking, camping, and creativity into his service provision when appropriate. He loves the opportunity with people of all ages, backgrounds, titles, and experiences.

His key values are: authenticity, equity, empowerment, and creativity.

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