Planning and Partnerships
A full range of facilitation services.
Planning and retreats for:
- Visioning and strategic planning
- Consensus-based prioritization and budgeting
- Anti-racism and equity
- Monitoring and continuous improvement
- Organizational change, including a leadership change
- Public involvement in environmental review (NEPA), specializing in controversial issues
- Writing workshops to produce academic, peer-reviewed publications
Partnership building, specializing in:
- Launching new partnerships or re-energizing existing partnerships
- Consensus building and other forms of decision-making
- “Rightsizing” governance structures
- Collective impact
- Adaptive management
Equity and Engagement
Facilitation, training, mentoring and applied research focused on:
- Authentic outreach and relationship building
- Undoing institutionalized racism
- Tribal sovereignty
- Organizational development, including diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- Participatory decision-making
- Community-engaged research
Trust and Conflict
Team building and mediation specializing in
- Assessing the potential to transform challenging group dynamics
- Opening up tough conversations with grace and care
- Supporting individuals through confidential conversations and coaching
- Addressing challenging group dynamics through ground rules and feedback
- Creating shared expectations and nurturing trust
Social science
Applied research bridges theory and practice in the following areas:
- Structures and practices to promote dialog, social capital and collective action,
- Equity and managing power dynamics, such as with funding, governance and communications,
- Grassroots efforts to transform conflict,
- Organizational learning and resilience,
- Building and sustaining partnerships for greater collective impact,
- Civic engagement and
- Effective implementation of adaptive management.
Specializing in qualitative, participatory research methods, including graduate-level teaching, focused on:
- Community-engaged research,
- Empowering focus groups,
- Social constructionist research design,
- Grounded theory,
- Critical discourse analysis,
- Narrative analysis and
- Developmental evaluation.