serving individuals + organizations across mission-driven sectors
mapping pathways back to conscience, care + sustainable service
writing | speaking | moral mapping | duty of care
a map can show us the terrain, but the season shapes how we move through it.
our moral landscapes are no different.
the pain many of us are carrying is so much more than just burnout — it’s moral injury. it’s vicarious trauma. it’s collective grief.
it’s the legacy of working inside traumatized, industrialized systems that equate exhaustion with commitment. That have betrayed our shared commitments and led us to believe that being a “professional” or being “of service” requires us to sacrifice our well-being and leave our intuition, values, conscience, and spirit at the door.
we call the work or addressing these issues moral cartography. it begins from the premise that to heal, lead, and fulfill our duty of care to each other, we need to come to know our internal and external terrain, before we can learn how to move through it across the different seasons of life.
at roots in the clouds we know that people and organizations are unique and one-size-fits-all approaches to leadership and duty of care don’t work. moral cartography offers different pathways to a common destination, which we offer through moral mapping™ (our signature coaching and consulting work), speaking, writing, and art.
we’e designed all of our offerings to meet you wherever you are, whether you're seeking support for yourself, your team, or the people in your care.
challenging outdated narratives
My book, Tell Me My Story, is where this map first began to take shape: through the stories we inherit, the wounds we normalize, and the narratives of service that ask us to abandon ourselves for the mission.
"What if the service path we've chosen is actually an invitation—to see and heal and love and embrace our own humanity through the stories of the people we're serving? And what if that healing could happen at both the individual and organizational levels?"
— Dimple Dhabalia - Tell Me My Story
Available in paperback, e-book, and audio at all major online retailers.
empathy, connection + care
our empathy cards are designed to bring the practice of empathy to life — not a single gesture, but a sustained act of presence and care.
one box. six cards. shared with one person over time.
a ritual of care, unfolding slowly between sender and receiver.
a choice to keep showing up — through the hardest seasons of being human.
Find them, along with our books, journals, and prints, in our shop + creative studio.
meet dimple
Dimple is the founder of Roots in the Clouds, author of Tell Me My Story – Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self, and creator of love in action empathy cards.
Dimple’s work is inspired by liminal spaces: those thresholds we often encounter as we transition from one season to the next. Her art in all its forms — writing, photography, and collage — explores what lives between grief and joy, moral injury and repair, loneliness and connection, dehumanization and compassion, the logical and the mystical, the seen and the unseen.
Shaped by her roots as the daughter of Gujarati immigrants and nearly two decades of bearing witness to the stories of refugees and asylum seekers, her books, empathy cards, journals, and prints offer rituals of care, connection, and culture and are designed to help us slow down and stay rooted in our humanity as we navigate life’s most challenging seasons.
Connect with her @dimpstory on LI | IG | FB.
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