FAQs

What services do you offer?

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We offer a variety of facilitation and training services, as well as workplace mediation and mediation for disputes among nonprofit board members or board members and executive directors.

Facilitation services focus on helping groups find clarity and consensus, which means all voices are heard and diverse ideas considered before the group chooses its path.

Training programs are designed to spread these types of facilitation skills and people management skills to everyone, typically in a multiple part training designed to combat the forgetting curse. Everything is tailored to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

Mediation is facilitative, designed to guide people in conflict through the difficult conversation they need to have and keep avoiding, the conversation that drives the decisions that need to be made, the ones that hold back the organization when they don’t get made.

How do I get started?

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Getting started is simple. Reach out through our contact form and schedule a call. We start with a brief check-in to see if we might be able to help; review all of our services together; and co-create the right scope of work to meet your needs and budget. We strive to be completely transparent and are open to every question you might have as we work together.

What makes you different?

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How many mediation and consulting firms do you know of that are founded by a feminist who spent eight years supporting an advocacy group’s board of directors?

How many training firms do you know that co-create multiple-session programs, each one facilitated by people who know how to pivot to meet whatever the group needs?

Are we different? Yes. Are we accessible, straightforward, and very down-to-earth? Yes.

We’re also proud to be a certified woman-owned micro business - working with a wide partner network to meet your needs.

Who do you typically work with?

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About 80% of our work is with nonprofit organizations, and includes:

  • training all staff on interpersonal skills and dealing with everyday conflicts at work;

  • training managerial staff on the vital people leadership skills they need, like active listening, one-on-one meetings, and managing higher-lever leaders;

  • facilitating meetings of external interested parties, like community groups, state regulators, or affected industry representatives;

  • facilitating board or leadership retreats;

  • mediating issues that are higher-stakes or complex, such as ED-Board Chair arguments or co-leader problems.

So who are the other 20% of our clients?

  • We’ve served brick-and-mortar small businesses locally (Northern Virginia).

  • We’ve worked with mission-driven, growing tech companies.

  • And we also support individual leaders of nonprofits through our learning cohort, Leading Through Conflict Mastery.