“One of the best facilitators I’ve ever seen.
And I’ve been to A LOT of meetings.” 

spark + dive loves facilitating rooms full of people who like to disrupt processes and don’t get along. We relish the challenge of creating democratic spaces to host complex conversations and move folks towards large group consensus, group evaluation, visioning a new future,  or team reflection.

spark + dive provides training for in-real-life or digital facilitation.  We build facilitation trainings unique to the needs of your group. Minimum 2 hour training.

WHO we facilitate meetings/gatherings for:

  • Small and large teams (3-250+ people)

  • Groups working across different sectors 

  • Boards, stakeholders, and staff 

  • Public / Private Partnerships

  • Teams / coalitions / networks - (dysfunctional ones and ones playing well together!)

  • Groups that are stuck or need to make a big decision

  • Organizations that don’t share values but consented to an arranged marriage by funders

  • Rooms of lawyers, activists, artists, advocates, and other facilitators that like to disrupt process

WHAT types of meetings/gatherings we facilitate:

  • Long and short term vision, strategy, or goal setting 

  • Collective decision making

  • Moving through difficult conversations (mediation) 

  • Developing shared agreements

  • Organizational / Collaboration re-sets 

  • Collaboration assessments 

  • Project evaluations

  • Community Engagement processes

spark + dive facilitation brings the following to meetings/gatherings:

  • Creative, democratic,  and intentional processes + action-based outcomes 

  • Race, Gender, Class analysis 

  • A LOT of experience working with dysfunctional organizations and teams

  • Flair and imagination to collectively vision and plan

  • Deep listening

  • Radical hospitality and sometimes homemade cookies or pie

  • Woo - amount varies based on the group

If you are interested in facilitation or facilitation training, schedule a 30-minute meeting to discuss how we might work together. 

Facilitation Roots: There are multiple threads that inform spark + dive’s special facilitation sauce. Some of this includes: being a southern theater director,  being a member of  Alternate ROOTS, the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, Highlander Center for Education and Research, deep canvas training, and developing interpersonal skills on navigating political divisions.