
Facilitation
City Greener Strategies Facilitation Approach
When you need to have difficult or critical group conversations a trained and experienced facilitator can help ensure that your time together is inclusive, honest, and focused. A facilitator can make the difference between frustration and a breakthrough.
City Greener Strategies offers facilitation services for small- to medium-sized non-profits. We have hundreds of hours of experience facilitating diverse groups in half-day, full-day, and multi-day settings. We will work with you to create a setting that brings honest and productive conversation to the fore, and help capture it to convert it to community impact. We believe that facilitation should create a safe and inclusive “container” for discussion that creates a trusting and thoughtful environment, and reduces the opportunity for participant archetypes (e.g. “ego trippers”, “performers”, etc.) to derail the conversation.
In addition to our many years of facilitation practice we have learned from some forward-thinking professionals about best practices in inclusion, conflict resolution, and adaptation such as these thought leaders:

Interaction Institute for Social Change
The IISC’s unique training, Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work, dives deep into practical methods for having difficult conversations about race and among participants of various backgrounds.

Conservation Coaches Network
Hundreds of expert conservation planners and facilitators from around the world share some of the finest details behind managing a group conversation of all kinds. CCNet offers practical tips about conflict resolution, follow-up, and even managing energy levels. Best practices are shared in-person at bi-annual meetings and in an online library.

Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
adrienne maree brown’s book, Holding Change, offers unique insights about how to apply her movement-building strategies that use principles from nature (be fractal, adaptive, resilient, etc.) in facilitation practice. Her ideas recognize that groups of humans need to be in “right relationship” with each other to meet their potential.
We will work together with you to design a meeting that meets your needs, that builds trust, and brings the best out of our participants. Click the “Contact Us” tab to start a conversation about your needs and how we can help.