Facilitation

How will my organisation benefit from working with you?

Working with an external facilitator benefits you in various ways:

• when a specialist in a particular topic is needed but for a less formal session than ‘training’
• when a neutral outsider is needed to support and lead discussion
• when a neutral outsider is needed to carry out focus group research

What does a facilitator do?

Facilitator: “a helper and enabler whose goal is to support others” (Ingrid Bens). This is very much how I see my role when helping organisations and groups discuss particular issues.

What kind of facilitation do you offer?

• focused conversations on diversity and inclusion, or the inclusion of women specifically
• focus groups
• action learning sets
• team building days
• strategic planning days/away days

I’ve undertaken facilitation work for a Fortune 100 company and for national and small, local not-for-profits.

What it’s like to work with me: 

“I participated in an action learning set facilitated by Julie in spring 2020 and it was brilliant – really enjoyable and I got a huge amount out of it. Julie is such a wonderful facilitator – she immediately puts you at ease and is a very supportive, calming and inclusive presence, who enables you to feel relaxed and able to share and constructively explore problems you are experiencing, whilst always listening carefully and making you think with insightful questions and observations. She has an excellent knowledge of issues of power, inequality and oppression which you can tell also influences her skilled facilitation. I can highly recommend working with her and I have learnt a lot from doing so.”

“Julie supported us to design and deliver an away day for our Board and leadership team. Our Board includes people with learning disabilities so this needed some careful thought and preparation. Julie was fantastic throughout, listening carefully to what we needed and working with us to produce a plan that would achieve our aims without excluding anyone. The day itself was a big success thanks to Julie’s skilful facilitation and ability to adapt and adjust as our conversations progressed.”

“The focus groups that Julie facilitated were incredibly well managed. When discussing more sensitive topics the space always felt respectful, safe and engaging. All of us were able to speak, without feeling pressured to do so.”

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