Aubrey Sabre
Hi, I’m Aubrey! I am a full-time single parent and Interdisciplinary Studies student and student of life, community advocate, practicing herbalist and aspiring community architect. I have been working in event planning in community organizing for six years now. I’m turning my personal need for consistent friendship, support and connection into a meaningful research project during and beyond my college career. This work blends my passions for normalizing the necessity of togetherness, holistic healing and wellness, building relationships, fostering collaboration, and creating spaces where people feel supported and seen. What started as a personal journey has grown into a professional and educational endeavor to strengthen community ties and invite others—kids and parents included—to join in and build up community. Together, we can shape a more connected and caring world. I’d like to be active in supporting the movement of more togetherness. We need each other. This work and movement will be implemented through events, gatherings, workshops, and classes.
I am a community organizer, facilitator, storyteller, and mother whose work centers on communication, relationship, and collaborative leadership.
Open Compass grew from deep observations and experiences in my own life and community: many of the challenges we face today; structural, political are relational. We are living in a time where many people feel isolated from one another, even while surrounded by constant communication. Yet the truth is simple and ancient — we need each other. Our well-being, creativity, and ability to navigate complexity all depend on our capacity to be together, to listen, to question, and to learn from one another.
As a mother, this question of togetherness feels especially important. I think often about the kind of communities we are creating for the next generation — whether our children will grow up surrounded by curiosity, care, and shared responsibility, or by fragmentation and disconnection. This awareness continually guides my work.
Through Open Compass, I design and facilitate gatherings, workshops, and collaborative experiences that help people reconnect with themselves, each other and with the land they live. These spaces bring together diverse perspectives and disciplines to explore communication, relational awareness, leadership, and collective learning. My hope is to create environments where people can slow down, ask better questions, navigate difference with curiosity, and build meaningful community.
Before founding Open Compass, I organized community gatherings and collaborative initiatives through a project called Tending Reciprocity, which brought people together around shared learning, family connection, and mutual support. These experiences reinforced something I have felt for much of my life: that bringing people together is not only meaningful work, but is duty. In many ways it feels like a calling — a recognition that human beings are not meant to navigate life alone.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Communication and Community Organizing from Cal Poly Humboldt, and I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Transformative Leadership at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). My studies explore how leadership, systems thinking, and relational awareness can help communities navigate complexity and cultivate more collaborative ways of living and working together.
Alongside this work, I collaborate on storytelling and media projects that explore themes of connection, identity, and collective experience. I am particularly interested in how art, conversation, and shared experience can help people see one another more clearly and imagine new possibilities for living together.
At its heart, Open Compass is rooted in a simple understanding: togetherness is not optional — it is necessary. Human beings thrive in relationship, and healthy communities are built through curiosity, accountability, creativity, and care.
I believe that stronger communities grow from stronger relationships, and that when we gather with intention, humility, and openness, we create the conditions for both personal and collective transformation.