Over the years, I have seen over and over the emergence of group wisdom arising from inviting all voices into the circle. Effective co-learning, creative collaboration, outside-the-box thinking, emergence leadership, better decision-making, deeper discernment, and a sense that everyone present matters.
Participatory facilitation processes invite all voices into the Circle, supporting greater inclusion. Emergence knowing happens in the conversations between people, allowing new insights, ways of seeing and understanding differences, and building on each other’s knowledge and wisdom.
All voices are invited to share. Both differences and commonalities are essential aspects, creating a welcome to multicultural interactions and the value of lived experiences. My facilitation is based on Circle Work, Courage & Renewal Circle of Trust®, and the Nonviolent Communication Partnership of Power.
Although my facilitation may look and feel different in each of the following bodies of work, core principles are present in all of the facilitation work, including:
- Circle Work – the power of sitting in a circle for individual voices and the group wisdom
- Value of each individual’s knowledge, life experiences, and wisdom
- New ways of being with each other that build relationships and
- Invitational space and conversational guidelines that create trustworthy spaces
- Valuing both speaking and listening
- Greater connection between those in the circle and bridges differences
- These times of chaos and unpredictability require inviting a slowing down, pausing, and making room for silence
Bodies of work include:
- Nonviolent Communication – skills and practices
- Restorative conversations to repair or address harm, conflict, and differences in our words or behavior. For family, team, organization, congregation/spiritual community, or community group (involves individual or small group coaching and skill training).
- Congregational, organizational, or communal setting healing process to restore communication, address specific issues rebuild relationships, create more healthy patterns of communication, and build relational trust. Additionally involves training and coaching for members and leadership.
- Walking with Grief – personal and collective
- Spirituality & NVC – Living a Compassionate Life based on the work of Robert Gonzales
- Communication as a Spiritual Practice
- Restorative Conversations for Healing and Repair for your family, organization, congregation, spiritual community, or community group
- Community-Based NVC Practice Group for accessibility, inclusion, and multicultural practice group, based on power with, Partnership Paradigm
- Social & Racial Justice and DEI work through the lens of NVC
- Courage & Renewal Work – Principles of Courage & Renewal work https://couragerenewal.org/library/courage-renewal-principles/
- Circle of Trust Retreats® (zoom or in person), including Clearness Committee and Open & Honest Questions.
- Mini/modified Courage Work: Circle of Trust® mini-Retreat, Modified Clearness Committee®, Reflection Circles
- Healing the Heart of Democracy work – series or retreat Engaging Differences for Youth and College Students – series or retreat
- Soul of Aging Series or Retreat
- Leading Together – integrating CR principles and practices into your team or organization, congregation, or community organization
- Walking with Grief – to support individual and collective grief
- Highest Calling of Your Heart – for those in social & racial justice work
- Peer Learning Circles –building a community based on mutual learning and discernment
- Intercultural Competence and Social & Racial Justice Work
- Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)® and Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS)® as an IDI Administrator and ICS Facilitator – training and coaching. (I have subcontractors to work with a larger size organization).
- Creating a Culture of Care – NVC and Racial & Social Justice: 6 – 9 month program to support organizational shared learning and transformation of culture, how to have difficult conversations, building Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Transforming communication patterns from the Domination Paradigm of Power over/power under to more healthy and effective communication patterns in the Partnership Paradigm of Power With.
- White-to-White Conversations about Race, Other Identity Groups, and WAG White Accountability Group.
- Art of Hosting
This is a large body of work, based on engaging people in new ways with generative questions. Deeper conversations occur, building on both individual knowledge and wisdom and the emerging ideas that arise from group wisdom.- World Café (https://theworldcafe.com/key-concepts-resources/world-cafe-method/ simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue
- Pro Action Café – action-oriented, creative, and effective, i.e. refining a project or exploring of new idea
- Circle Work – value all voices and presence to what emerges, with creativity, connection, engagement, and curiosity
- Chaordic Stepping Stones Planning Process – engaging the why, structure, values and who for developing a new type of roadmap
- Yoga, Mindfulness, and Contemplative Practices & Well-Being Practices
- Yoga sessions for retreats, series, and team development
- Yoga Nidra for retreats, series, team development
- Mindfulness activities and relaxation exercises
- Contemplative practices, including “Third Things” for reflection
- Walk & Talk®
- Walking & Talking in a place of local beauty reduces stress
- Moving at a pace that works for you
- Exploring metaphors & interconnectedness with nature
- Creating relaxation and renewal
- If you can’t walk, we can Sit & Talk in a place of local beauty, i.e. Botanic Gardens, local park, State park.
- Walking at a regular pace or a meditative walk
- Health and Well-being Practices
- Forest Bathing Guided walk
- Forest Bathing Therapy Walk
- Wellness Plans developed for you, your family, group, or organization
- Warriors for the Human Spirit – Margaret Wheatley’s latest work
- Book club conversations and Facilitation of her recent book, Who do you Choose to be: facing reality, claiming leadership, restoring sanity
- Local chapter of Warriors for the Human Spirit
Solutions by Joshua Troy, LLC