Facilitation for meaningful change and collaboration
Facilitating new possibilities
Expert facilitation for managing change.
Strategic planning projects
We’re wiser together. As a facilitator for over 25 years, Sam facilitates conversations for groups to reflect on where you are now, where you’re going and how you’ll get there. Use this service for online or in-person facilitation and strategic planning.
Our facilitation approach
Facilitation means to make it easy. When we create the right conditions, groups engage in the conversations that matter to them and get results. Transformation happens when people feel heard and understood, and then they can determine what their next, wise move needs to be.
Our facilitation approach:
- Relational and strengths-based
- Clearly defining the Purpose, Outcomes, and then a Process to get there
- Informed by complex systems
- Balancing planning with enough flexibility
- Intersectional and anti-racism lens
- Facilitation can be online, in-person, or both.
We’re wiser together
Sam Bradd (MEd, he/him) leads the team at Drawing Change. With 25 years of experience helping people have meaningful meetings, Sam has worked as a graphic recorder and meeting facilitator in 11 countries.
Sam’s lived experiences inform his creative and facilitation practices: listen to what’s under the surface, find glimmers of joy, uplift equity, and return to wholeness.
Impact: internal and external
Leading change inside your organization? Expert facilitation can support innovation and clarity:
- Strategic planning
- Action planning
- Conference design
- Retreats
- Internal meetings
- Organizational/system change
- Quality improvement workshops
- Governance change
Engaging externally or with communities? Help people feel heard and support participation:
- World Café
- Journey mapping
- Dialogue-based events
- Focus groups
- Participatory research
- Open Space Technology
- Coalition-building
- Member engagement
Select projects
- BC Teachers’ Federation: train the trainer for participatory committee meetings
- University of British Columbia: faculty-wide planning about equity and cluster hiring
- Community-Based Research Centre 2SLGBTQIA+ coalition-building support
- The Wilderness Committee (US) offsite retreat and internal engagement
- Professional Employee Association strategic planning with Executive/staff
Facilitating paradigm shifts
The types of projects Sam facilitates most often (in Canada, the US and globally) are engagements focused on mission/vision/values, organizational system changes, internal governance, community partnerships, and where nuance and thoughtfulness is called for in the design–especially due to dynamics of power and voices of equity-deserving groups. Facilitation can be online, in-person, or a combination of both.
Nothing is one-size-fits-all. Reach out to talk about what might work for you.
