Facilitation

There are many well documented approaches used to identify and resolve stakeholder relations, including Needs-Fears Mapping, Conflict Analysis Tools, and Multi-Stakeholder Processes, (MSP) to name a few.

These experiences hold lessons of how to be both a strong leader and a strong follower, how to pay attention and be in your body, how to use your body, and how to read other bodies in the room. Connection and meaning-making aren’t just lingual, the group is also a deeply physical being.

The group needs to learn:

• What everyone else thinks about the challenge: What is happening? What’s the real challenge?


• What they themselves believe is possible — what futures can be created with this group?


• What does the group believe is possible?


• What are we willing to try? How much risk are we willing to endure?


• How committed is the group to the chall

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3 Key Tips for a #ListenFirst Conversation

1. Listen with curiosity


2. Speak from your own experience


3. Connect with respect

Transition Design seeks to address these power imbalances by building capacity and empowerment for some groups, while addressing issues of privilege, entitlement, and even ignorance with others. In many cases, certain stakeholder groups (such as those who are disenfranchised for some reason or those who are non-human). These groups will require adv... See more

Priya’s expertise lies in framing conversation, and listening and tracking for language and how it begins to shift and shape perceptions in a group. Her speciality is facilitating meaningful conversations that activate a group's sense of possibility and identity.

Priya is trained in multiple modalities including Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue, Track 2 Dialogue, inter-group dialogue, and an array of collective processes.

Seek to discover common interests and areas of agreement by focusing more on why than what, more on personal experiences than positions.

There is no quicker way to end a conversation or escalate to conflict than to start spouting facts. In general, facts should not be your first line of defense, even if they are your initial go-to. Research shows p... See more