Facilitation For Organizations
Create higher levels of cohesion and engagement with your team and at your events to enhance connection and results….
Leadership Relational Guidance:
The key to a thriving organization
Fulfilling your mission and vision and the fruition of your goals is founded in the relational health of your organization.
The Challenge: The real cause of incoherence
One of the greatest challenges within organizations is the incoherence within the leadership dynamics. When the stakes are high, deadlines are approaching, insurmountable challenges are faced, and the bottom line is closely monitored, stress levels increase, and even the best of the team becomes less self-resourced and balanced. In this environment, people can default to the coping strategy behaviors that they learned as an adaptation to a less-than-nourishing household as developing adolescents. When team members resort to these behaviors, they become more:
Rigid and inflexible
Black and white in their thinking
Harsh and abrasive
Withdrawn and less collaborative
These behaviors lead to tension and lack of communication between leaders and less efficacy and impact in the direction of solutions and productivity. When there is disharmony, lack of understanding, and authentic dialogue in one area, it absolutely has a ripple effect in other areas. As trained and “evolved” as your team might be, there are bound to be blindspots in behaviors and communication habits. With time as the greatest commodity, it can seem overwhelming and never ending to tend to the relationships as opposed to the tasks at hand.
“There is no such thing as a company. A company is made of individual people and Cathy has a genius for human connection. With her midwifing us, our team came to unanimous clarity on the single most important action to take in our company. If you run a company, you know how rare that is. I recommend Cathy to anyone who leads a team (but only if you can handle the truth that will come up)”
The Solution: A whole new approach
Starting with a deep understanding of your vision, mission and core values, Cathy then gets to know the key leaders in the organization. Through one on one and small group conversations she gains both a greater understanding of where the current dynamics are and why, and where they could be as a team. She comes to learn how the internal relational field is actually impacting deliverables and the client/customer’s experience.
Cathy makes herself available to experience some of the current culture either through events or conversations until she can identify 2-3 top blocks to work with. She may facilitate online or in person and hold group conversations, wherein some of the more “difficult” topics can be discussed in a safe, heart centered way until greater self- awareness and shared understanding is reached. In essence, she helps to dislodge the boulder which allows the river to flow powerfully once again!
Ongoing relationship - Cathy develops an ongoing relationship with the company and leadership team to provide longer term solutions from within the organization
Organization Benefits:
Learn how to repair after a relationship upset between two or more leaders
Learn how to take full responsibility for behaviors and dynamics
Feel a sense of cohesion and belonging in the group
Learn to communicate authentically in the safe space that’s provided
Learn effective communication skills such as listening, curiosity and how to share impact
Experience greater connection
Details:
Based on the needs of the organization, a proposal will be delivered. This is appropriate for quarterly retreats or on a monthly retainer basis. Commitment ranges from three months to a year and may include:
1:1 coaching calls
2:1 calls to tend to dynamics that are emerging and get in the way of efficient/healthy relationships amongst leaders
Small group facilitation to be sure everyone’s voice is heard and a cohesive vision is restored.
Large group in person connection activities
Values based exercises
Culture and Visioning
An analysis of current situation as well as a roadmap to greater health
Event Facilitation: Embodied Connection
creates the fabric of your world-class event.
Specifically designed for conscious, Wellness, or Special Events and Weddings. Open any event with this two hour experience to create group cohesion, connection and to allow participants a sense of ease with one another.
Participants / Attendees Will:
Learn communication skills such as reflective listening, asking deepening questions
Have opportunities to both see and be seen and hear and be heard!
Experience connection
Feel a sense of cohesion and belonging in the group
Learn to communicate authentically in the safe space that’s provided
Have fun!
Details:
This is a two-hour experience where Cathy guides participants in a series of activities where listening, sharing authentically, and demonstrating curiosity are invited.
“My leaders not only appreciated Cathy and talked highly about the workshop she put together, but began applying some of the takeaways from the workshop immediately as we began discussing/aligning on our strategic business plan for the rest of the year.
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Welcoming the opportunity to discuss your organization’s needs
“We would like to offer our sincerest gratitude to Cathy for her offerings to our team. Our company’s foundational values are centered around helping to shift and change people’s lives for a more beautiful world. For this to happen outwardly, we internally as a team need to embody this as well.
With Cathy’s loving yet supportive guidance, our team could peel back the layers to unveil deeper aspects of ourselves safely with each other and then guide us to collectively discover what was essentially at the root of what we are all striving to achieve as a common goal.
With this, our team has discovered that we are more similar than different, and with this common ground, we stand more in solidarity to continue to follow our united North Star.”
“With her warmth and ability to create a safe container, Cathy has brought many a room of people into connection and cohesion with her “Love- Bomb” facilitation.
As a certified Relational Life Therapy Coach, a Circling Method Facilitator, a DH Coachsultant she has the ability to relate with groups in an authentic and disarming way.
Cathy’s passion is to teach how to lead a more relational life through the heart whether it’s in an organization, a community or in someone’s personal life.”
“Cathy combines qualities that are hard to find in a facilitator. She is able to both provide assertiveness while being compassionate and supportive.
Cathy will sense when it is time to move on while not leaving unsaid anything that needed to be said. She’ll provide you structure and instruction while also being able to provide freedom for what has to emerge. You will feel safe and at ease the moment you hear her voice.”