The world is a lot right now.
The old ways of working were built for a reality that no longer exists. Taking inspiration from the self-organizing nature of moss, we help nonprofits and mission-based organizations doing hard work in chaotic times do it with more joy, resilience, and impact.
be like moss
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be like moss ✦
We’ll meet you wherever you are.
Flagship — Integrated Engagement
Organizational Groundwork + Living Strategy
Most organizations have a strategic plan somewhere…and a reality that looks nothing like it. This integrated engagement tends both the structural layer and the ongoing strategic rhythm that keeps plans adaptive and accurate in a world that won't stop changing. Designed for capacity building, the goal is an organization that doesn't need Mossy indefinitely.
Strategic Entry Point
Strategy Sessions
For the decision that keeps getting postponed, the conversation the team keeps working around, the planning process that never quite lands. You leave with something tangible: clarity, alignment, a decision that sticks.
Emotional Entry Point
Doom & Bloom Workshops
The world is heavy and the work is harder for the heaviness going unnamed. A structured container to hold the grief and the possibility of this moment — without toxic positivity or collapsing into despair. Learn more.
Operational Entry Point
Mossy Meetings
Meetings where decisions actually get made, and people actually feel heard. Teaches staff and boards to run participatory, consent-based meetings using the Self-Organizing Systems framework.
Not sure where to start? Let’s Talk — most clients begin with a free discovery conversation.
ABOUT LILLYBuilt from the inside out.
Lilly Worthley founded Mossy Collaborative after more than a decade working across climate sectors—environmental science, solar, clean energy advocacy, non-violent direct action—and burning out spectacularly in the work she cared about most.
What she found on the other side wasn't just personal recovery. It was a conviction: organizations doing hard work in complicated times need both emotional grounding and strategic clarity to do their best work.
She built Mossy to offer both, having spent years inside the organizations she now serves.
✦ Work That Reconnects Certified Facilitator
✦ Workshopper Pro — AJ&Smart Facilitation Training
✦ Designing for Social Impact, Stanford d.School
✦ BS Environmental Sciences, UVM; 10+ years across climate sectors
Why Mossy?
Go on a hike with Lilly and you'll find yourself crouched at ground level, marveling at the tiny, impossibly green miniature forest beneath your feet. After reading Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss, that quiet fascination became full-on obsession.
Mosses are ancient badasses. When a landscape has been burned, cleared, scraped to bare rock, moss shows up first. Before anything else could possibly survive, it moves into the harshest terrain and begins the slow work of making it livable. Scientists have revived moss from specimen cabinets after 100 years of dormancy. It doesn't die when it dries out, it adapts, and when conditions shift, *snap* back to life.
Mosses don't hoard. They don't wait for better conditions. They build the conditions.
Every fern, every tree, every bird's nest, needs the moss that went first, held the soil, stored the water, made it possible. True stewards of a better future.
That's the spirit this business is named for, the stubborn resilience to keep going, the wisdom to do it together, the quiet tenacity to hold on and make things livable even when the terrain is brutal (especially when the terrain is brutal).
Not waiting for a better time.
Embracing the truth of whatever moment we're in.
The movement for a life-sustaining future needs to be mossy.
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It was clear that Zen Center as a community grew down as a result of our classes together. We became more deeply connected in our ongoing effort to awaken to the realities of the moment – both to ourselves and to each other.
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— Joan Amaral, Zen Center North ShoreNo pitch or pressure,
just a conversation
Whether you're navigating a strategic stuck point, holding a team through burnout, or just curious about the work, start here.
