Rooted in relationship
About With Care
Collective.
Our relational facilitation practice is grounded in lived experience, shared power, and collective care.
The work centers relationship as both the method and the medium, recognizing that clarity, movement, and transformation emerge through how people relate to one another.
Rather than relying on rigid agendas or expert-driven models, With Care responds to what's present. Workshops and facilitated spaces are designed to slow things down just enough to surface what's often overlooked, unsaid, or held beneath the surface—making room for honesty, accountability, and meaningful progress.
This practice exists because many of the challenges people face in organizations and communities aren't technical or strategic at their core. They're relational. And relationship requires intention, care, and skill to navigate well.
Who cares?
Angela Montijo,
LCSW
With Care Collective is facilitated by Angela Montijo (LCSW), a relational facilitator and educator with deep roots in social work, community-based practice, and healing-centered engagement.
Angela brings over a decade of experience working alongside youth, families, practitioners, and organizations navigating complexity, harm, transition, and change—particularly within youth justice, education, and community systems. Her work is shaped by both professional training and lived experience, with a commitment to treating lived experience as a legitimate and necessary source of knowledge.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Angela is trained in therapeutic frameworks, but With Care Collective is not a therapy practice. Instead, she draws from relational facilitation, restorative practices, emergent strategy, and collective learning to create spaces that support clarity, connection, and shared responsibility without pathologizing individuals or groups.
Angela's facilitation style is often described as grounding, responsive, lighthearted, and quietly disruptive—offering relief from rigid formats while holding groups with care, honesty, and intention.
Although With Care Collective is currently facilitated by one person, the work itself is inherently relational.