Foundation & Beliefs
Unlike life coaching — which focuses primarily on individual goals and behavioral accountability, transformative coaching works at a deeper level: consciousness, cultural identity, and the community structures that shape who we become. That is the foundation of everything we do at Village-Connect.
We believe change occurs on three levels:
consciousness, behavior, and structure.
At the heart of our work is the belief that every person carries a higher self — an innate drive toward growth, purpose, and contribution. Our role is to create the conditions that awaken that potential and connect people with a community that sustains it.
This work is grounded in the Five Transformative Life Pillars — Ubuntu, Ma'at, Ujamaa, Harambee, and Sankofa — living cultural technologies that anchor every program, every session, and every relationship in the Village-Connect ecosystem.
Vision
We envision communities where self-awareness and collective care evolve into lasting wellbeing — where individuals, families, and neighborhoods rise together.
Mission
Our mission is to build the capacity of people to become more self-aware and self-directed, resulting in sustainable positive transformation.
Meet Our Team
Behind every transformation is a team committed to empowerment. At Village-Connect, our people are the heart of our mission — to build the capacity of individuals to become more self-aware and self-directed through culturally grounded transformative coaching. Since 2009, our dedicated staff, facilitators, and community leaders have worked collaboratively across the San Francisco Bay Area to create lasting, positive change.
Together, we are transforming lives and empowering communities.
Colette Katuala, LCSW
Clinical Director
"The Village represents growth and connection to the community."
Wanda Whitaker
Project Coordinator
A Village is a small community of inhabitants with complementary values and morals..."
Kwame Osagyefo (Gaylon Logan, Jr.)
Founder and Executive Director
"The Village represents a harmonious interdependence of mind, body, spirit, and community." | Contributing Author: Leading with Self-Awareness: Starting from the Inside Out (Amazon)."
Ana Tamayo
Project Manager
"The Village is a home for camaraderie, growth, and resilience."
Micheal Tarkington
Project Coordinator
"Village Connect serves to connect our Village to the resources needed to live in hope and actually attain a prosperous future"
Bonisile Ikemba
Board Member
"The village represents a sacred source of safety, inspiration, resilience, and care, where love, wisdom and support are shared across generations in pursuit of a common goal. It is the carrying forward of tradition, the collective work of healing, and the understanding that we thrive most fully when we thrive together, unified."
Krystal Foronda
Admin Specialist
"The Village: A sharer of hope and life."
Dr. Connie Bridgeforth
Board Secretary
"The Village Represents Community"
Allan Millar
Grant Writer
"The Village walks with families, turning healing into transformation."
Sharon Villa
Board President
"The Village represents chances, change, and growth"
Our Partners
We collaborate with various organizations, school districts, and companies to help achieve our goal of long-term sustainable transformative change of individuals and families.
