The Akous Group - Org Change

Facilitate
verb [ trans. ]
Make (an action or process) easy or easier: a skilled person was needed to facilitate the exchange of ideas.
DERIVATIVES facilitator, noun
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from French faciliter, from Italian facilitare, from facile ‘easy,’ from Latin facilis (see facile).

We facilitate progress.

Working with communities and organizations that are faced with decisions and challenges, we help create dialogue that unlocks answers.

Rather than slip into typical patterns of conflict, avoidance, or resignation, we help leaders of all types realize their aspirations.

This is exciting and important work. It is about creating the communities and organizations that we need to address the environmental, business, and social challenges of a new century.

As facilitators we offer you:

• Design of meeting/interaction opportunities that get the real issues out on the table quickly and fairly
• Smart neutrality that is able to surface all the different views in the room and organize them into a coherent whole
• Broad experience that allows us to quickly understand the context and dynamics from which specific issues arise
• Practical listening that opens up the possibility for self-reflection and change

• A range of facilitative approaches from individual coaching through large scale meeting design

If the idea of having a skilled facilitator help you, your community, or your organization accomplish a tough goal is appealing—please contact us. We have something in common.

In August of 2008, my colleague, Kara Vernor of the Results Group and I will be conducting interviews with members of California Department of Pesticide Regulation Pest Management Advisory Committee. We will be using an online appointment scheduling tool provided by Genbook. If you are a PMAC member wanting to schedule you interview please go to our appointment scheduling page.

Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming has built a pioneering resource for people interested in doing more to promote progress on the pressing environmental, social justice, and economic issues of the day.

The challenge of our time is to find profoundly creative ways to address global social, political, and environmental breakdown. Both organizations and communities are challenged to redefine themselves and their practices in light of an increasingly unpredictable and in many cases more dangerous environment.