Meeting Facilitation

We work collaboratively with groups to identify goals and issues, design an inclusive agenda, and facilitate a focused and interactive meeting. With extensive experience in process design and managing group dynamics with a very diverse range of types and sizes of groups, we can help prepare, run and follow up on productive – and yes, even enjoyable – meetings.

Why work with an external facilitator?

It can sometimes be difficult from within an established group to break out of unproductive group dynamics, or clearly see where discussion and decision-making processes tend to get stuck. A well-planned, skillfully run meeting means that everyone in the group can participate fully, issues can be dealt with straightforwardly, and decisions can be made through clearly understood processes that are both thoughtful and efficient. A new group may wish to hire a facilitator to establish effective discussion and decision-making processes at the outset of its work. A frequent benefit to an effective meeting is that the meeting planning and discussion skills of the participants are enhanced so that future meetings are more fruitful.

“ Once again, thank you so much for your wonderful facilitation of the ICC retreat. You are so skillful at getting to the core and keeping the group focused on the tasks at hand while ensuring all have a voice, and do so in such a respectful, positive manner.” – Jane Ross-Allen, Vermont Interagency Coordinating Council Staff Member