Professional Facilitation

Having a problem with your process? Facilitation is increasingly recognized as a valuable and necessary piece of organizational growth and it is a practice with multiple applications. Is your group in need of a facilitated decision-making process? Are you looking to develop a new resource or implement a project plan? Good facilitation can turn chaos into dialogue, and leverage group conflict towards group consensus. And it can all be done with spontaneity, style, and passion. I am available as a Facilitator for short and long-term projects, retreats and trainings. As a part of my Facilitation Services, I:

• Use Rank Awareness* in order to identify, understand, and leverage conflict within a group to move the process forward.
• Clarify the purpose, scope, and goals of a meeting.
• Employ a variety of hands-on, participatory group facilitation and dialogue tools.
• Identify growing edges in groups where these tools are most useful.
• Keep a group on track in order to realize its goals in the time allotted.
• Facilitate the creation of a safe group environment, and hold that space responsibly.
• Effectively restate and synthesize individual contributions towards group consensus.
• Identify areas of agreement and help a group to discover solutions in areas of disagreement.
• Identify unspoken or underlying questions which may be troubling a group.
• Create space for the traditionally silenced to be heard.
• Ensure that the group process ends with a strategy for implementing the decision, not simply the decision itself.

*It is my firm belief that all individuals have rank of some kind, whether or not it is visible to themselves or others. It is often unacknowledged rank which creates tension and conflict in group settings. My goal when facilitating is to acknowledge tension and conflict, and attempt to utilize this very important, energetic fuel as a key to both finding common ground and creating strong, recognizable consensus in a group.