Facilitation
Does your group or organisation need the support of an external facilitator?
Sometimes, it can be helpful to have someone hold space for a decision that might need to be made so everyone can participate, or to talk through group dynamics, or explore the group's vision and purpose together.
These are conversations I love supporting.
I offer in person and online facilitation that is tuned in to the purpose of the conversation the group wants to have, whilst holding awareness of power dynamics with the aim of gently disrupting them.
I bring a compassionate, supportive approach to facilitation, skill in asking good questions, and an ability to track what is emerging in themes we are working through to open up space for where to go next.
Topics I work with include:
What will shift for you as a result of working with me?
Accompaniment to explore deeper topics and themes, creating enough safety that possibilities may open up that weren’t there before
A quality of attention on how you work together in your group / organisation so that dynamics and patterns become clearer, supporting you to move and change
A deep knowledge of how groups work, formed over 15 years working with social movement organisations, as well as 6 years studying them as part of a PhD programme, so that you can build on learning from how others have tackled similar challenges.
A sense of support to go towards challenging topics that get to the heart of the issue you are working with.
A sense of belonging in yourself, your group and the wider movement so that you can connect in with your purpose and reach into the support of a wider ecosystem.
Katherine is a thoughtful and intuitive facilitator. With Katherine's empathic and assertive facilitation style we were able to explore our defining values and purpose with reference to our anti-racist and anti-oppressive approaches. Katherines background and understanding of this work was invaluable. They brought a lot of practical coordination skills such as, summarising pinch points back to the collective and supporting the flow of conversation. In addressing our decision making processes they supported the collective to navigate group dynamics and move through a transitional phase of our organising.
- Grace Deione, Unlearning Collective Liberation, Racial Justice Network
Practicalities
Consultation Call
To begin with we will have a free 30 minute consultation call to explore what you'd like to work on, for you to ask questions about my approach and for us to see if we want to work together and in what ways.
Planning Call
If we decide to proceed, we then have a meeting to explore in more detail the purpose of the session, the learning objectives and access needs of the participants. We also decide if the session will be held online or in person (I can offer both).
Logistics
Your role would be to arrange the relevant venue if we are meeting in person, share information about accessibility of that venue, organise food/drink and communicate the date, time and location of the workshop with participants.
Session Design
Given the agreed purpose of the session, I propose some ideas for how we might hold the relevant conversations and share these with you for your feedback, with the acknowledgement that topics may emerge in the conversations that need to be tended to.
Session Delivery
I then facilitate the session and invite feedback from all participants.
Debrief Call
We then have a meeting to reflect on how the session went, any learnings, and if we are organising further sessions, what might be needed for those.
If we are organising multiple sessions we repeat this cycle from planning - debrief.
Next steps:
If you’d like to explore working together, please book a free 30 minute consult call where we can talk about what you are looking for and if we would be a good fit: