368 Consulting supports food + social justice organizations to realize their vision and impact in their local communities in a way that is grounded in shared learning, healing, mindfulness, and principled intention. We specialize in business planning, social impact strategies, cooperative development, product and program development across early stage startups to established organizations.

Why Our Work is Important

We, as economic and food justice leaders, face a difficult task of working to dismantle systems of oppression that are entrenched in our societies. It’s a grind that takes a heavy toll on our mind, body, and spirit. Beyond this, starting a business or project can also be overwhelming — with moments of uncertainty, navigating bureaucratic mazes, juggling relationships with various stakeholders, considering long-term risks and pitfalls, etc.

Our mission is to work with you towards radical change — in supportive ways that result in shared learning, a renewed spirit, and strategic clarity towards community impact.

The Approach: 

We learn your needs, knowledge gaps, and where you want to go. We work with you to sharpen your mission and impact, and outline and discuss specific learning opportunities as needed. Together, we develop a unique action plan specific to your needs — offering clarity and efficiencies in your approach and/or business plan, as well as navigating the varying pitfalls and potential mission drift that come with working in the business world and capitalist systems. 

Whether you are just starting with an idea or are deep into your journey, we can meet you where you are and develop a game plan, as well as offer in-house expertise to help bring your vision to reality, in a way that feels sustainable for you and your organization, and that is grounded in self-care, mindfulness, principled intention, and self-reflection.

Please email us to learn more! The first introductory 30-min session is free to learn more about your needs and to see if we’re a good fit. Following sessions are on a sliding scale hourly rate based on your budget. 

Who We Are

  • Strategy Consultant

    Seanathan's work for the last 15+ years has existed at the intersection of entrepreneurship, social + food justice.

    He's consulted for industry leaders from both early stage social impact startups to established companies, offering both strategy consulting and brokering of investment deals that funded the expansion of solutions for sustainable energy, social and civic engagement, and increased access to health and education.

    As an entrepreneur and organizer, he's founded several businesses and nonprofits. In 2015, he founded a food justice organization called Oakland Bloom, dedicated to supporting working class immigrants start their own food businesses. During this time, there was a deep commitment to learning the food industry: working at recognized Bay Area restaurants, teaching as a cooking instructor for culinary institutions, and launching restaurants and catering companies. Through these experiences, he's honed his skills across all aspects of the food service industry and can provide practical and strategic insights for sustaining and developing food projects.

    Through his experience, he's gained insight into : 1) the business world, its capitalist systems and oppressive structures,  2) conditions and struggles facing working class and marginalized communities, and 3) radical models that challenge systems and build power for working class communities.

    Seanathan wants to see a world that is equitable and just. He brings his diverse range of experiences and knowledge with the hope that we can bring about this change together. He currently runs Sticky Rice Club — an organization committed to strengthening neighborhood resiliency and healing in Oakland.

  • Mindfulness Meditation Teacher | DEI Consultant

    Mushim Patricia Ikeda is an internationally known mindfulness meditation teacher, justice activist, and diversity, equity and inclusion consultant based in Oakland, California for the past 30+ years.

    Originally from the U.S. Midwest (Ohio, Iowa, Michigan), Mushim is known as one of the earliest published Asian American poets under the name Patricia Y. Ikeda. She took Buddhist vows in 1983, and in the context of Zen monastic training in the U.S., Canada, and South Korea, practiced the traditional forms of awareness of the agrarian and ecological origins of food, the need for non-wastefulness and gratitude, and recognition of the suffering and labor that goes into food cultivation, production, transportation and processing. 

    She is a core Buddhist teacher at East Bay Meditation Center, a diversity and justice-centered urban community in Oakland and was named one of "the Great Teachers" in Lion's Roar Buddhist media in 2022. In 2023, Mushim published a set of original poems in Volume One of Cascadian Zen, an anthology of Zen Buddhist-influenced poetry. Mushim is known for her access-informed and justice-informed approach to mindfulness practices, and ability to share these practices with people in simple, everyday forms.

    Mushim approaches food justice work through the lens of prefigurative activism, creating sustainable communities of service, work, learning and play as spaces to co-create the world in which we want to live and raise our children. Through sharing pitfalls and best practices, we can accelerate connection, learning, innovation, and a return to deeper roots that contain cyclical ancestral wisdom and knowledge.

    For more information, go to www.mushimikeda.com

Offerings

  • We support food justice organizations and social enterprises hone and develop business models, while also providing an intentional space to sharpen social impact strategies. We work with organizations and foundations to develop tailor-made workshops and sessions that enable leaders in their network to explore their visions, hone their missions, and work towards strategic goals. We also incorporate a strong practice of secular mindfulness that help with developing openness, self-reflection, team chemistry, empathy, and deeper intuition towards community goals.

    Some specialty areas include:

    * Commercial Real Estate and Public Space Activation

    * Cooperative/Collective Ownership Development

    * Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    * Program + Product Development

    * Project Management

    * Restaurant + Food Business Planning

    * Social Impact Strategy

    * Team Building

Get in touch!

The first 30-min consultation is free. Following sessions are on a sliding scale hourly rate based on your budget.