Focusing on
Effective Planning, Decision Making, and Commitment Building
Our processes are designed to help groups and organizations clarify goals,
plan carefully, make collaborative decisions, and build commitment.
Managing
Interdependence
In an increasingly interdependent world, we work toward collaborative outcomes,
coordinated action, and the mobilization of difference among individuals, groups,
organizations, and systems at all levels.
Dedicated
to Communication
Our mission is to establish positive communication environments
in groups, organizations, and the public sector. We explore differences
constructively and open opportunities for cooperation, creative problem
solving, and effective working relationships.
Working from
Experience
With a total of 30 years experience, we work worldwide to help
clients frame issues jointly, make decisions collaboratively, and
move forward creatively.
Committed
to Innovation
We offer a variety of innovative services including private and organizational
consulting, mediations, group facilitation, public meeting management planning,
problem solving, and training. Our work entails system thinking, future orientation,
and positive resources for change. Our interventions help clients to move forward
creatively, frame issues jointly, and make decisions collaboratively.
Presenting
a Global Perspective
We work regularly with colleagues, trainees, and clients from North America,
Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Creative Services
- Strategic
Planning Tools that can provide collaborative methods
for creating desired futures in groups, organizations, communities,
and systems.
- Consultations can
help groups and organizations create ways to capitalize on differences
and diversity, work together productively, and move into the
future creatively.
- Mediations can
help parties to achieve better understanding of one another,
build respect, and create ideas for managing their differences.
- Group
facilitation can be used to
overcome destructive patterns and move toward productive
patterns of collaboration.
- Training is
a step in capacity building for individuals, groups, organizations,
and communities.
- The Team
Mediation System can provide skills for effective
conflict management in high performance teams and natural
work groups.
- System
design projects can assist in creating in-house
programs for dispute management.
- Public
issue facilitation can help large groups and
communities to work with a diversity of perspectives, articulate
points of difference and shared concerns, garner the collective
wisdom of the community, and deliberate together productively.
