Integrative Mentoring & Advisory – Ashland, Oregon | Ronda LaRue

Ronda LaRue’s work grows from a four-decade mentoring practice with individuals, organizations, and communities — attentive to how people and group systems organize under pressure, navigate transition, and move toward holistic heart-driven possibility.

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Whether working privately with an individual, advising a board, shaping a community conversation, or composing a living soul-essence piece, she works from the same lens: how individuals and groups organize around fear, clarity, avoidance, courage, spirit, and truth.

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Her most recent artistic musical compositions, collaborations, and spirited gatherings are not separate from her lifelong tapestry of mentoring work. Like all of her work, this newest matured branch offers potent (and sometimes playful) ways of entering the same life conditions, questions,  and inquiries — reflecting back what is already present on the cusp of realization but not yet fully recognized.

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Her long body of work isn’t built from formulaic study or linear mental structures.
Rather, her work rests on the integral science and art of full bodied attention given to the thresholds of the unknown:

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   On how people organize around fear.
   On where clarity is being avoided.

   On the subconscious trails hinting toward insight

   On highlighting the moment where something essential shifts the ground of understanding.​

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Over the years, students and collaborators have affectionately called her a “loving butt kicker” — someone "a bit on the Zen-side" who sees both a person’s unrealized genius and their most static self-deceptions, and is willing to name both with compassionate humor and tough steadiness.

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Here in Ashland, Oregon, her work now includes private mentoring, advisory work with mission-driven organizations, occasional small gatherings, and the continued composition of music engaging both personal and cultural thresholds.

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