Expansion works

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Services Offering

Facilitation & Public engagement

Online and in-person facilitation to respond to community building, collective learning, and social innovation needs

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Social Consulting

Customized services to support social purpose organizations in achieving their goals. Full or partial management of social projects

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Strategic Planning

Coaching support for groups seeking to increase clarity on their intended impact and the strategies to achieve it.

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Workshops & Programs

Learning solutions on interpersonal and leadership skills to boost professional or personal development.

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Expansive Movement

A body-based practice to enable the embodiment of interpersonal and leadership skills

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Women's Community + Events

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Facilitation & Public Engagement

Our approach

We partner with clients to co-create sessions responsive to their unique needs and opportunities. We thrive at creating inclusive spaces that engage multiple perspectives and promote equity by centering historically oppressed groups’ voices and lived experiences. Our human-centered facilitation responds to the needs and strengths of different audiences while incorporating holistic approaches to enable innovation, meaningful connections, and transformative learning.

Facilitation services done to date include:

  • Community dialogues
  • Consultations and focus groups
  • Public engagement for needs assessment
  • Sessions for cross-cultural learning and integration
  • Collective Learning on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)
  • Networking events

Social Consulting

Our approach

We take time to understand our client’s definition of success and make sure that every outcome is aligned with this vision. Our results-oriented approach enables efficient management of projects, meeting deadlines and budget expectations. We anticipate challenges and provide timely feedback and alternatives to facilitate critical decision-making. We adapt to emerging needs to ensure seamless execution.

References of past consulting work

  • Environment scan
  • Full or partial management of social projects including needs assessment, proposal writing, planning, outreach, implementation, and reporting
  • Impact measurement
  • Focus groups for community-engaged research

Strategic Planning

Our approach

We guide teams through an inclusive consultation process and in-depth analysis of internal and external data to identify strategies to achieve their intended impact. Specific goals, a flexible action plan, and metrics are developed to increase the chance for success during the implementation phase.  Our coaching modality allows organizations to strengthen their internal capacity for strategic planning and follows the framework of North America’s social innovation leaders Innoweave and The Bridgespan Group.

Strategic Planning services options

  • Strategic planning process | Consultant led
  • Strategic planning process | Team-led (coaching modality)
  • Strategy session
  • Visioning and Ideation sessions

Workshops & Programs

Our approach

Following adult learning principles, we design and deliver workshops on interpersonal and leadership skills that are responsive to the particular needs of our clients and improve performance.

Our programs combine self-directed learning, one-on-one coaching, and group sessions to maximize learning outcomes.

Our approach includes includes trauma-informed, holistic, and strengths-based practices. We use various interactive resources to ensure an online or in-person delivery that addresses different learning styles. 

We are committed to creating learning experiences that expand participants’ perspectives and action possibilities.

What we offer

  • Workshops on employability skills
  • Customized workshops on interpersonal skills
  • Leadership development program
  • Learning resources development

Expansive Movement

A body-based practice that promotes self-awareness and connection with others. It can be described as dynamics with music and a personal development intention. It offers guided experiences that involve individual conscious movement, and group interactions to enable the embodiment of desired interpersonal or leadership skills.

Pair and group interactions provide opportunities to work on barriers to connection among diverse individuals by actively practicing trust and empathy.

The insights gained during the sessions can be transferred to different areas of life and influence new actions to support personal and professional goals.

Recommended for (but no limited to):

  • Community & Team building
  • Peer support
  • Supplementary activity for skills development

Benefits to participants

  • Improve emotional and physical wellbeing
  • Increase self-awareness to support personal and professional development
  • Promote integration and meaningful connections in groups
  • Respond to specific needs through choice of themes
  • Practice and strengthen interpersonal and leadership skills

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