Custom Forum Design & Facilitation

For Who: Small groups or teams within an organization

Why: Real, embodied and integrated change-management; new habit patterns and behavior change in people; aligned action, growth and evolution within teams.

What & How: Tailored to fit the culture, change management focus, and time constraints of the specific team or group. Oftentimes unfolding over a series of 4 phases, the forum experience creates a deep, foundational

Examples of Specific Forum Concepts:

• Innovation & Creativity: Create a mindset shift that allows a team to think and act differently and more creatively when managing rapid business growth

• Leadership & Belonging: Fostering a new foundational level of empathic understanding for one another, their past and current challenges, and engendering a deep sense of connection and community within a diverse group of people.

• Emotional Intelligence: Awareness and acceptance for one’s whole self, while witnessing the parallel experience unfolding for others, and collectively working to practice and adopt new emotionally intelligent habits and behaviors.

• Leadership & Personal Evolution:

To be honest, I am not sure if there’s a more effective “change management tool” out there than a well-run forum experience.

Organizations Are Exhausted With the Time & Expense of Trainings & Trainers and Consultants Want to See Their Work Take Real Effect

In several conversations with both friends in the leadership and development space and connections at companies that hire leadership development consultants, there’s been a growing frustration from both sides of wanting the “investment to stick.” I hear from people all the time that they spent precious time and money to attend a series of half-day trainings with their team, only to feel that the effects washed off within a few short weeks.

How do people actually change?

There’s a lot of research out there on this, and even if you’ve never dug into that, there’s no surprise from observing your own human life, that real change happens in layers.

Truths are often mirrored in nature. The spiral, the crustacean’s path of expansion is charted and easily witnessed in a series of co-centric cycles, much like a tree, and organic beings that we are, much like humans.

This work of layered expansion is well-executed through self-work - either self-driven or guided by a coach or therapist. And,