Creative Facilitating offers Community Connecting   
in Facilitating Group Dynamics  

Our work supports and even challenges people to connect ideas, to connect to the world around them, to
connect to other people, to connect to themselves and to connect to their strengths.  These connections
invariably create community and make many other things possible as people become greater together
than the sum of their individual assets.        

Meetings and Focus Groups
Use Vision ALIVE to give focus to the Initiation and Vitalizing stages of our approach:
  • Benefit from a design that is custom built to the desired result
  • Bring all voices into the conversation
  • Discover the creativity in the group and apply it to your challenges
  • We apply Organization Development principles to all our work, bringing out the best in people and attaining
    lasting results
We facilitate meetings, workshops and retreats, setting a safe context for connections and emergence.


Promote a Connected and High Performing Organization
Use Team ALIVE to give focus to Learning from observation, individual reflection and group reflection:

Whether trying to get past a road block or wanting an organizational health check up, teams can learn to:
  • Listen actively to each other
  • Give appreciative feedback
  • Appreciate different points of view
  • Build consensus
  • Discover the community that they are
  • Generate new ideas.
It is in the crucial conversations that organizations achieve breakthroughs.  

You may choose to use an inventory to begin the conversation of dynamics in the group.  Either the AMSP Apter
Motivational Style Profile (exploring reversal theory and the choices available to us) or the MBTI Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator might be useful to support this work.  Many groups benefit from open discussion of the emotional
intelligence elements and how the elements are in play in their organization.  The EQ-I Emotional Intelligence
Quotient can serve as a springboard for group discussion and individual development.

Leaders can reinforce a thriving organizational climate by:
  • Creating a safe space for open communication and for experimentation
  • Encouraging leadership in everyone
  • Offering positive reinforcement
  • Helping staff build on strengths
  • Keeping the group open to each other and to new ideas
  • Supporting the sharing of knowledge
  • Letting individual energies be spent in increasing the effectiveness of the group.

You may choose to employ the ALPS Apter Leadership Profile System that provides insight into organizational
climate with 180 degree input.  You may choose the Campbell Leadership Index, CL-I, with 360 degree input into
leadership parameters.  We can discuss if an assessment tool will add to your insights.
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Copyright 2012, Kathleen Trygstad, all rights reserved   Kate@CreativeFacilitating.com    703-243-8726
ALIVE!
Act         Do something
Learn     From what you have done  
Initiate  Create a possibility for change
Vitalize  Give life to your creation
Engage  With people and the system in going forward
"Finding Our Music"- a specialized program for groups

Think of music you have heard live.  Usually you were listening to multiple instruments.  Musicians say that each instrument has a
voice.    A bass, a piano, drums, saxophone, trumpet, violin (or fiddle), guitar, clarinet, each has a tonality and capability that is
distinct. And these voices contrast and blend their individual contributions into a complex and beautiful creation.  As you watch and
listen to the musical creation you appreciate the contribution each voice makes to an interesting and pleasing whole.

In an organization, each person has a voice.  All voices are important to the creation of the organization—its products and
performance.  When each person is encouraged to make his/her voice heard and all are listening for that voice in appreciation of its
distinct value then the organization will benefit.  We are sometimes tempted to ignore a voice that is not saying what is expected, or
to ignore the voice we seldom hear.  While we might make faster decisions in that manner, we lose the richness of full possibilities.  
Whoever is there brings the voices we need to hear.  And what happens when they come together in the organization?  What is the
capacity, what is the music of the organization, given the voices and the strengths and the aspirations that are there?  Discover that
music, that song that is yours through facilitated brainstorming and discussion.  

We take a group through a process of appreciating individual voices and then understanding the unique music that
this organization can make.  The session is highly interactive, makes use of basic instruments and a jazz DVD and
brings in an inspiring video.  

At the client’s request, we can schedule with musicians to play and talk about their process.

Program Length:  1 Day. We can reconfigure it in other ways to meet client needs.
"The joy of looking and
comprehending is nature's most
beautiful gift."
                     -Albert Einstein