Facilitation & Visual Note-Taking

Select clients, employers, and projects for which I have provided facilitation and note-taking:

Nunakins Childcare and Family Support Coalition (strategic planning)

907 Initiative (“Empty Chair Town Hall”)

State of Alaska Adolescent Health Program and partners (strategic planning)

Building Resilient and Inclusive Communities (CDC-funded coalition project in the Northwest Arctic)

Alaska Resilience Initiative (Steering Committee and workgroups, sessions for Alaska Native and American Indian trauma experts, trauma-informed curriculum-building committee)

Alaska Children’s Trust (policy advocacy workshops)

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (Alaska Native and American Indian advisory groups on adverse childhood experiences work and on research approaches)

Indigenous Research Collaborative to End Violence

Girls Empowerment Groups (elementary, middle, and high school)

Growing Alaskan Leaders (planning meetings)

Alaska Native Dialogues on Racial Equity

Latine Social Work Coalition at the University of Michigan

Student Coalition for Action at Mount Holyoke College (organizing for successful campaigns, e.g. for housekeeper unionization and fair contracts)

People Opposing War at Mount Holyoke College

MASSPIRG at Mount Holyoke College

I can support your workgroup, coalition, non-profit, caucus, classroom, youth group, or Board with facilitated conversations. I have experience facilitating public town halls, strategic planning sessions, program evaluation, theory of change sessions, community organizing and social justice campaigns, steering committees, workgroups, and research focus groups. I have extensive experience facilitating with children and youth of all ages, as well as adults from a variety of cultural and professional backgrounds.

I work to make the group’s thinking visible through visual note-taking, drawing, and diagramming ideas. I also prioritize creating safe spaces for conversation in which norms are set and everyone — including the smallest voice in the room — is encouraged and supported to participate. I was trained by First Alaskans Institute in Indigenous Dialogue Principles, and have co-facilitated many conversations as part of the Alaska Native Dialogues on Racial Equity project using these methods, which are inclusive of all.

I can facilitate using the methods of your group (e.g. Robert’s Rules of Order, consensus-based decision-making) and can also lead conversation strategies such as Open Space, World Café, and Fishbowl. I can lead participants through polling, visual and kinesthetic methods of providing input, writing exercises, and more.