Facilitation and Other Services
Rosalee offers a suite of services to support teams, organizations, partnerships and coalitions to step fully into their creativity, power and joy while disrupting the status quo and creating a more loving, equitable world.
specifically creating deeper partnerships and fostering innovation for equity through design and facilitation of dialogue for connection and change. We specialize in intersectional, cross-functional, cross-organizational, and cross-sector collaboration, community-building, and learning, and we bring issue-area expertise on a range of socioeconomic issues that impact BIPOC and immigrant communities.
Facilitation is at the heart of our work
TYPES OF FACILITATION PROJECTS
communities of practice
of professionals working on similar issues to develop and deepen connections and surface and develop questions and innovations to increase meaningful impact in communities.
multi-stakeholder partnerships
working on policy advocacy & systems change, whether at formation & visioning stage, implementation stage, or re-strategizing stage; we have experience with both place-based initiatives and cross-sector partnerships.
program or campaign evaluation & re-design efforts
that meaningfully engage diverse team members to leverage perspectives and thought leadership and provide pathways to effective collaboration.
staff retreats
to increase connection, develop culture, and reflect deeply to support strategy development and collaborative relationships.
workshops
to support wellness and address burnout and / or build skills around communication, collaboration, and facilitation. Workshops provide hands-on engagement opportunities as well as tools and micro-practices to take-away.
- Your project and team leaders can fully participate and bring their wisdom, concerns, and strategic vision to the issue at hand, without worrying about timing, hosting, or having to stay completely “neutral”;
- Meeting objectives are super clear and always met, so work together feels purposeful, energizing, and effective;
- We handle difference skillfully, and attend to power and positionality so groups can move through tension towards solutions;
- Your group leaves more energized, with improved connections and sustainable agreements for stronger future collaboration, and authentic, grounded ideas for moving forward.
Why Hire a Professional Facilitator?
OUR PROCESS
Begins during our first 25-minute complimentary discovery call, and continues with an initial planning call once we have decided to work together. In this phase, we work together to clarify meeting goals, scope (including timing), audience, and important context.
Four phases of working with us:
Based on our Discovery phase, Rosalee returns with detailed draft agenda(s) with specific recommendations for activities, approaches, technologies, and plans for harvesting information, tailored to your goals, and group. We typically do one round of feedback and edits on the agenda in advance of actual delivery.* Rosalee develops any necessary materials (slides, worksheets, other technologies), drawing on our deep well of experience, and clarifies any specific materials, room-set up, snacks, or other considerations to make for a successful event.
Rosalee and team facilitate your gathering, including adjusting the agenda as necessary to meet the agreed-upon goals and addressing any unforeseen issues and dynamics that arise. We harvest relevant content from the meeting. Typically our clients decide to organize their own event logistics (room set-up, food, etc.) taking our advice into consideration, though we have options to support with this as well*.
After the session, Rosalee shares all harvested materials and is available for additional strategy advising, as necessary or desired.
*For more information about base packages, additional services, and pricing, please reach out.
ONE: DISCOVERY
TWO: Co-DESIGN
THREE: DELIVERY
FOUR: fOLLOW-UP
"Heddy is a gifted facilitator who cares about delivering outcomes."
“Heddy is a gifted facilitator. Her exceptional strength is that she is an authentic, deep listener. She cares about delivering outcomes, engaging all partners, and reminding us that people matter in creating meaningful learning spaces. She is incredibly trustworthy and always approaches the work with love, care, grace, inclusion, equity, and high professionalism and excellence. She is not afraid of having tough conversations and working through challenges together to ensure everyone is heard, resulting in more robust programmatic outcomes and improved processes.”
Jason Cordova
Senior Program Officer, The James Irvine Foundation
OTHER SERVICES
We ALSO know that sometimes teams need additional hands-on support to build on the fruits of facilitated group work: advice on grantmaking strategies, revenue development to support implementation, research to support group intuitions, or other help to enact strategies.
We draw on expertise developed over 20+ years of experience in social justice work – including grassroots organizing, campaigning, advocacy, research, grant-making, grant-writing, and network building – to provide practical support for planning and implementation phases of work.
- advising on the design of capacity building programs or facilitation design for meaningful participation
- support for more equitable, community-accountable, trust-based grantmaking
- technical assistance with grantwriting
- policy advising around education and workforce development, particularly for BIPOC and immigrant communities
- engaging private sector employers around workforce development, job quality and worker voice
Examples of Wraparound Consulting Services:
Don’t see something on the list? Ask us and we can refer you to our trusted network of colleagues if something isn’t the right fit for us.
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Testimonials
“Heddy provided an immense knowledge of Los Angeles' education and workforce systems. Her ability to synthesize data and information about these systems and provide context as it related to our project was vital in bringing together partners who were largely unfamiliar with the work. With Heddy's support, we were able to develop plans for the region to better align education and careers for the benefit of students in Los Angeles.”
Director, Postsecondary Strategy & Policy, UNITE-LA
Adam Gottlieb
“Heddy provided incredible insight on how to ensure that our community-driven, racial equity project concept was framed effectively for federal funding approval. Given her deep experience in the field, she was able to rapidly understand our needs and help formulate an appropriate and effective response to the challenge at hand. She was clearly aligned with our organizational values and able to provide critical assistance in helping us secure $2M from the Federal Forest Service to support our work to increase the tree canopy in neighborhoods in heat zones.”
Just Growth Director, Partnership for Southern Equity
Suzanne Burnes
