Facilitating
An engaging, educational and guided dialogue within your organization, as you explore a deepened sense of self and a desire to serve your community.
Staying engaged while having fun!
Approach
Our facilitation approach initiates early stage dialogue in your organization on how you can best serve yourself while also serving your community.
Designed to meet you where you’re at, it will increase your resilience through:
Awareness
Invites “mindfulness” into understanding your business challenges.
Acceptance
Invites “kindness” and appreciation for the situation you’re in.
Action
Invites “resourcefulness” to invoke action appropriate to you.
Our facilitation sessions are engaging, playful, and supported by case studies.
Facilitating Services
Setting your “North Star”
Get your bearings and set your compass. Explore your past to appreciate the present and set your future. Assess and set your values, vision, mission and other guidelines.
Use humility when engaging with your ideal, or prospective customer. Learn to use an approach that most resonates with your client. Especially important when seeking to serve those who feel marginalized.
You are what you say no to. Find the appropriate balance when scaling your business that is authentic to you and those you serve. Learn how to implement objective evaluation strategies to assist in your business decision. Remember, there is no right or wrong decision, but rather only good choosing.
Develop or revisit your strategic plan, ensuring that your values and needs of customers are meaningfully incorporated. Engage the appropriate stakeholders and participate in a session that brings all voices to the table.
Case Study: BC Wood
In collaboration with
BC Wood & OCI
Service
Customer Discovery / Stakeholder Engagement
Challenge & Opportunity
Recognizing the need for more effective dialogue between Indigenous Communities and BC’s Value-Added Wood Manufacturing sector, while
overcoming what has historically been a challenging relationship.
Action
Engaged with 200+ Indigenous & Industry representatives
Interviewed 50+ representatives to understand their needs
Facilitated three workshops across province to 60+ representatives.
Result
>85% workshop participants felt more connected
Finances, capacity and trust identified as main issues faced by Indigenous communities
Confidence, political understanding and viability identified as main issues faced by Industry
“Vanja brought a sense of calm which we all appreciated. His ability to balance and engage the room is impressive, we were all happy to have him there.”
Workshop Participant
Our Client Success
Creating space for all stakeholders
UBC Sauder School of Business
Service
Conducting Meaningful Consultation & Strategic Planning
Action
Managed engagement of over 200 stakeholders. Facilitated a full-day strategic planning session to nearly 60 participants comprising of various stakeholder groups including faculty, staff, Indigenous community members, students, and donors.
Result
Produced a final report highlighting major themes and identifying key objectives for Ch’nook strategic plan. Contributed to significant funding subsequently received by Ch’nook to implement strategy.
Setting the stage with interactive icebreakers!
Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Services Society
Service
Strategic Planning with Purpose
Action
Facilitated multi-day strategic planning session to staff, volunteers and board members. Brought awareness to organizational values, client needs, and perspectives strategies.
Result
A summary report highlighting key takeaways from session and proposed strategic initiatives. Participants felt engaged, re-connected, heard, and an increased sense of contribution.
Connecting at an ecosystem level
RADIUS (SFU)
Service
Scaling your Business: Using Human Centered Design
Action
Developed leading-edge venture program curriculum, supports, and delivery models. Led venture recruitment, selection and alumni engagement. Facilitated launch, growth and scale-phase ventures through social-impact incubator and accelerator programs.
Result
Graduation of investment-ready ventures, resulting in a total investment over $100k in six ventures. Graduation of 30+ launch and growth stage ventures to help deepen their social-impact interventions.
More Facilitation
HRx
Foundations of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
First Nations Technology Council (FNTC)
Foundational skills in Innovation & Technology
Ch’nook
Strategic Planning with Purpose
Sauder Social Entrepreneurship
Foundational skills in Entrepreneurship
Futurpreneur
Foundational skills in Entrepreneurship
Caframo
Customer Discovery
YWCA
Scaling your Business: Using HCD
JABC
Foundational skills in Entrepreneurship
