Story-driven strategy and doula care for all transitions in service of a healthier, more connected world.
Madison Murphy Barney • Madison Murphy Barney • Madison Murphy Barney • Madison Murphy Barney •
I use story-driven strategy through a doula lens to support organizations and individuals to navigate change with clarity, trust, and possibility. Together, we can build a more just, connected future.
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Hi, hello.
I’m Madison Murphy Barney.
I’m an Indigenous sister, author, doula, and story-driven strategist. I work at the intersections of care, creativity, and systems-change to help people and organizations meet uncertainty without fear, fragmentation, or force.
Across my work, I return to one truth: when we are guided by the wisdom of our bodies, our communities, and our stories we make better decisions, strengthen trust, and increase impact.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS & INSTITUTIONS
Care, clarity, and strategy for the work that serves communities
The Center for Story & Strategy™
Story is not decoration. It’s infrastructure.
At The Center for Story & Strategy™, I partner with organizations to build story-driven strategies rooted in deep listening to the the communities you serve. Together, we architect programs, policies, and communications built on real community wisdom, not assumptions to increase your organization's impact and efficiency.
This work leads to:
Stronger trust with the communities you serve
Strategies that actually get implemented
Staff who feel connected, resourced, & clear
Advocacy tools that move decision-makers in ways data alone cannot
Organizational & Conference Doula Support
Change doesn’t only happen to individuals
I offer doula support for organizations navigating uncertainty, transition, grief, growth, or re-orientation—whether through retreats, conferences, or internal moments of change. This work builds resilience, trust, and collective capacity to move forward without burnout or collapse.
it happens to teams, institutions, and entire systems.
FOR INDIVIDUALS
Support for meeting all of life's changes with power and possibility
Threshold Doula Support™
A small-group, virtual space for meeting life’s transitions with clarity, trust, and embodied support.
You'll be supported to move through change, hone your power, and meet life's thresholds with confidence and clarity.
This is for people navigating moments like:
Relational thresholds: divorce, friendship shifts, tending to strained familial bonds, re imagining abundance
Creative thresholds: writing a book, the offer you created, the creators residency you’ve been dreaming up since 4th grade
Trajectory thresholds: moving, quitting that darn job, starting in a new industry
Identity thresholds: Saturn return, coming out, reclaiming the title you’ve been tiptoeing around
Birth, postpartum, death, loss, and release are ceremonies.
Muungas Doula Services is my Vermont-based, in-person doula practice—rooted in ancestral care, cultural continuity, and the belief that you are the expert in your body and what you need to be well.
I support individuals, families, and communities through life’s most intimate thresholds with deep presence and reverence.
Muungas Doula Services
(In Person)
