
Services
Group Facilitation /
Group & Organizational Dynamics

Goals
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Improve collaboration and cooperation within a specific team or between teams
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Help teams discover or re-discover their shared purpose, create shared vision
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Improve communication and work through conflict amongst team members
Approaches
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Interview and/or survey members of an organization or team to assess underlying dynamics and how those dynamics impact group functioning.
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Collaborate with team to make sense of the information gathered
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Consult to team process or how a group works together (the term process consultation was coined by Edgar Schein)
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Provide training on group and systems dynamics
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Individual and group coaching, including role analysis
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Design meetings and processes that allow groups to recognize and discuss adaptive challenges, face difficult realities
Experience &
Education
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Designed and facilitated meetings and retreats for teams to collaboratively assess functioning and improve their processes
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Designed and delivered training for organizations to build leadership and systems awareness to improve team functioning
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Authored publication on teaching group dynamics in international settings
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20 years experience consulting to group dynamics at group relations conferences
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Researched and authored articles on participant learning in group relations conferences
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Designed and taught academic classes and professional development seminars and workshops on understanding group dynamics
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Training and experience in Systems Psychodynamics (Group Relations/Tavistock Approach); Systems-Centered theory and practice (Yvonne Agazarian); anti-racism, multiculturalism, conflict transformation; and facilitating dialogue, Immunity to Change Facilitators’ Workshop, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)