I believe that:

- Change begins with self awareness and seeing choices

- Our beliefs guide our thoughts, feelings, and actions

- The appropriate support can make all the difference

Utilizing various models and skills appropriate to the client, this work typically falls into the general areas of:

- Strategic visioning

- Leadership coaching

- Team effectiveness

- Conscious change and transition

- Healthy workplace conflict & communication

- Appreciating and celebrating what’s working

Process Consulting is an in depth process of helping a leader and his or her group think about the course of action that will help them be more effective in clarifying and making their goals reality. Most often you are looking for help attaining some kind of change or transformation in your system (group, organization, community). A sustained change in life rarely comes about with one intervention. With that in mind we like to think of the “process” as a series of interventions that uses a range of models, tools, and skills such as coaching, facilitation and customized workshops to create sustainable results. Process consulting is done in partnership with the client, be that one person or a small group of representatives of a larger system. Together with our various perspectives and passions we get a handle on what it is you are really trying to achieve and, after considering your unique circumstances, what the possible action steps are to get there. Our intention is to help you become more aware of the patterns that are helping or hindering your progress and to develop new habits that are more aligned with your vision. As the awareness and skills become integrated into your everyday life, and support systems are put in place, we gradually back out of your system.

Coaching for both individuals and teams, typically consists of us co-creating the opportunity for both dialogue and learning to take place. The coach’s role is to listen, ask questions, make observations, and support you. We may also offer information, resources, or action suggestions. Typically coaching dialogues seem to cover topics such as envisioning your best life (at work and elsewhere), effective leadership and management, decision making, learning style, problem solving, conflict resolution, communication, and interpersonal relations, as well as work/life balance and self care. What is important to you is where we focus our energy and conversation.

Coaching tends to be an emerging design, one that concentrates on current and relevant events as they happen. We work with a plan but move with the rhythm and pace of your needs as they surface. Our primary expectation of you is that you be willing to take personal responsibility for your own learning and your own behaviour. While we would like you to participate in your own way, we encourage you to be open to the possibility of surprising yourself.

Facilitationis often solicited when a group has a problem to solve or if there are difficult dynamics to work with. Some groups seek out facilitation when they want to develop their group process skills. A facilitator assists a group in achieving its goals by helping them work together more effectively. Her role is to help the group clarify their meeting objectives, design their process, and pay attention to the group dynamics occurring in the moment. Having a facilitator can help make sure airtime is shared, that dialogue is encouraged, decisions clear, and that time frames are respected. Most of our clients say they appreciate having an external facilitatorbecause it allows all parties to fully engage in the content of what’s happening without being sidetracked by process decisions. And since an external facilitator has no decision making power and no vested interest in a particular outcome, she is usually seen as neutral and therefore an acceptable guide to all the members of the group.