Facilitation

When difficult issues threaten to derail progress towards an organization's goals and conflict arises about these issues and how best to address them, an impartial, experienced facilitator with knowledge of organization and group dynamics can help to defuse the negative energies and channel them towards constructive outcomes.

Christine Forsyth & Associates provides customized facilitation services that address the real issues and help clients find durable, satisfying solutions.

We assist clients with:

Identifying the issue(s) to be resolved; identifying the key players and participants; developing an inclusive process for confronting the issue(s); providing a dynamic environment in which all the necessary players are engaged, issues are fully addressed and creative solutions identified; choosing appropriate decision-making tools; gaining commitment to the agreed outcomes.

Whether the team includes five or fifty individuals or more, we respect the importance to our clients of a facilitated process that respects individual and group integrity and motivates participants to achieve satisfying outcomes.

"The process of change is, at its core, a process of conflict resolution. Any change process - at the individual, group, organizational, community, or societal level - has conflict inherent in the process [and] any conflict resolution process brings about change in some form, between or within the parties in conflict."
E. Marcus Change Processes and Conflict