facilitate. 1610s, “make easy, render less difficult,” from French faciliter “to render easy,” from stem of Latin facilis “easy to do,” from facere “to do”.

When a group is in a process of mending, planning, building, reckoning, visioning, or decision-making, sometimes it can help to bring in an outsider to shape the space so that everybody in your group can give their whole self to the conversation.

Maybe you’re building something new and you want to begin well. I’ll help you a lay a strong foundation that allows you to move forward with intention, foresight, care, and vision

Maybe things feel like a mess right now, and you want them to feel better without over-simplifying, dominating, or leaving people behind. I’ll help bring organization, structure, and clarity to the process, to help you get to the heart of the matter.

Maybe you’re working on something big where one or a few people have been doing all the heavy lifting so far, and you want to shift the dynamic so that everybody gets to be a “participant” and nobody is unequally influencing how things go. I’ll help you bring more balance to the process, so that all voices are heard and so that each of you can take responsibility for what’s solely yours.

I can help you figure out:

• Who are we?
• What are we doing, and how are we doing it?
• What next?
• What do we need in order to do our work with more integrity, intention, or impact?
• What just happened, what can we learn from it, how do we fix it?

Examples of processes I can support you with:

• Strategic planning, visioning, and making key decisions.
  
• Building internal processes in new or renewed organizations (e.g. governance and decision-making, conflict prevention and resolution).
  
• Internal review and planning for change in process, governance, etc.
  
• Having big, complex conversations — sharing feelings (e.g. circles), making decisions, group reflecting (e.g. debriefs and post-mortems).

Click the links above for more information about each of these processes!