Facilitation

I love facilitating groups—whether that means designing and holding space for a one-time retreat or a convening, or working with the same group over time to bring about deeper change. As a facilitator, my methods draw on:

• Participatory approaches that center participants’ knowledge, experience, and analysis and account for diverse participation and communication styles

• Engaging virtual facilitation practices that incorporate music, creativity, connection, interactive online tools, breakout rooms, and the spaciousness required to work sustainably via Zoom over several hours

• Consciousness of the complex dimensions of identity (racial, gender-based, generational, ability-based, and so on) that shape all interpersonal interactions and group dynamics

• Feminist approaches that draw on storytelling, lived experience, power analysis, and embodied knowledge

• Awareness of positional power dynamics that are present in any professional team

• A commitment to language justice and deep experience working with multilingual, multicultural groups in partnership with translators and interpreters.