Meeting and group Facilitation

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At Cynara, we work with our clients and partners to design and facilitate meetings, workshops and planning sessions – both in-person and virtually. We help teams use their time together effectively through processes that enable outcomes and decisions to emerge from the group.

Feminist facilitation

Our feminist facilitation approach strives to create a convening space that values participants’ time, energy, skills, and lived experiences while encouraging self- and group- awareness of power and hierarchies -- both internally and externally. Inspired by philosophies like Emergent Strategy, we believe facilitation is not only a tool for helping groups brainstorm and make decisions, but also for building community and fostering trust, both of which are essential for creating a collective movement toward whatever it is your group is trying to achieve.

Watch Lindsey’s presentation about consent and care as core principles of feminist facilitation below (also here) or read the mini-zine here.

methods

We use multi-modal and interactive methods, drawing on techniques like Liberating Structures. We know meetings and workshops can be motivating, fun, and inclusive of individuals’ various needs and engagement styles.