Unflappable Facilitation
Julie M. Cowie of Congruency has been facilitating groups--including unwieldy ones--for over twenty years.
Why consider professional facilitation? Because worthwhile projects are usually hard, and difficult people can show up--sometimes, it seems, just to be ornery. Managing both a challenging task and critical participants can easily overwhelm, frustrate, or just plain annoy a leader who visualizes a better way or is actively seeking solutions. Congruency designs meetings and entire processes that include addressing barriers and facing critics with grace and skill. Again and again, we have built coalitions that can move into a future, accepting a new agenda.
Letting someone else take the heat for your worthwhile endeavor preserves your energy for where it's most needed. That's the best reason for hiring Julie M. Cowie of Congruency to facilitate your strategic planning program, transition process, or leadership retreat.
Examples of Congruency processes:
Why consider professional facilitation? Because worthwhile projects are usually hard, and difficult people can show up--sometimes, it seems, just to be ornery. Managing both a challenging task and critical participants can easily overwhelm, frustrate, or just plain annoy a leader who visualizes a better way or is actively seeking solutions. Congruency designs meetings and entire processes that include addressing barriers and facing critics with grace and skill. Again and again, we have built coalitions that can move into a future, accepting a new agenda.
Letting someone else take the heat for your worthwhile endeavor preserves your energy for where it's most needed. That's the best reason for hiring Julie M. Cowie of Congruency to facilitate your strategic planning program, transition process, or leadership retreat.
Examples of Congruency processes:
- Facilitating a Board Retreat to prepare for the selection of a new organizational leader
- Developing and presenting workshops that engage participants in thinking about and practicing behavioral change
- Convening disparate community members to launch a new service
- Building a coalition to inform and develop a grant-funded program
- Organizing formerly competing community members into a cooperative non-profit corporation