Facilitation and Collaborative Learning
Services: Facilitation and Collaborative Learning
We’ve all sat through too many meetings that make poor use of our time, whether stymied by ill-defined objectives, agendas hijacked by a vociferous few, or content that presents very little that’s new. Our meeting design prioritizes clear goals, active group participation, community connection, and multiple learning styles to yield specific results hitched to a gathering’s animating purpose.
Facilitation and collaborative learning services include:
Design and facilitation of board or staff learning and decision-making meetings
Design and facilitation of organizational retreats and convenings
Design and facilitation of sustained communities of practice
To learn more about Melinda’s facilitation approach, read What Facilitating a Wedding, a Funeral, a Bat Mitzvah, and a Board Meeting Have in Common.
Select project examples:
Co-design and co-facilitate multiyear community of learning and practice that convenes executive and program leadership of 14 local and regional foundations committed to advancing racial equity and systemic health.
Co-designed and supported facilitation of global retreat convening 35 program and country offices of global human rights foundation to collectively explore opportunities to advance intersectional economic justice strategies and grantmaking.
Facilitated national and local funder steering committee aligning investments in pooled funder collaborative advancing community power building and educational justice.
Melinda and the Fine Consulting team were fully compatible with our family foundation’s mission and values. They “got” us right away, laying the basis for an easy rapport. This was a necessarily fluid board development process and Melinda easily went with the flow, flexibly adapting to our changing desires as the process evolved. Melinda also brought substantial knowledge of the field to our trustee deliberations, and, in particular, of the social justice journeys of many foundations that we could learn from as we seek to strengthen and accelerate our own justice work.
~ Catherine Gund | Chair, Board of Trustees, George Gund Foundation