Facilitation

The way we bring people together shapes the kind of discussions that take place and how we enable all voices and ideas to be heard, valued and impactful. Creating a positive research culture means challenging how we come together, as researchers and research leaders to offer thinking space for all. Facilitation is, like Priya Parker says “The Art of Gathering”.

I can help you ease conversations in research environments.

Better conversations have the potential to deliver better research.

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“Teams have complex dynamics fuelled with a diversity of experience, motivations, emotions, skills and resistances. As a facilitator, I make it easier for you to use the collective intelligence of the group and reach the best collective outcome.”

How it Works

I help you design meetings, events and workshops that will: 

  • Establish a clear process for team engagement from objective settings to shared ownership of outcomes

  • Create dynamic conversations within and across teams

  • Generate active engagement through participatory activities

  • Make use of creative tools and frameworks to support reflection

  • Empower actions and solutions out of discussions

  • Help people say what needs to be addressed

  • Provide a safe environment where all voices are respectfully heard, with a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion being core to strategic decisions

  • Stimulate better listening and more openness to foster effective collaborative working

  • Deliver an experience not just an event

I will work with you through:

  • Listening carefully to your specific context and challenges

  • Clarifying your goals and vision

  • Designing & facilitating programmes and interventions that shift group thinking

  • Evaluating approaches & impact, and planning next steps

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Where can facilitation be used for best results in the research environment?

- Strategic research planning

- Departmental or team away day

- Network kick off meetings

- Team building and development

- Stakeholders engagement

- Research sandpits, collaboration labs and hackathons

- Athena Swan applications

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 I make your collaboration aspirations a reality

  • Do you want to increase the collaboration potential of your research group or department?

  • Would you like to broaden the scope of collaborations towards interdisciplinary & inter-sectorial collaborations?

  • Are you setting up a new research network and want to ensure collaboration is a core shared value and becomes a reality not just wishful thinking?

  • Do you want to kick-start a funding initiative and bring together researchers and external stakeholders who have never worked together? 

  • Are you keen to gain productive and joyful collaborations by taking the time to address needs, goals, drivers and assumptions?

“Making collaboration happen means creating dedicated moments of open exchanges. Making Team Science a reality is about essential conversations, building trust and checking understandings.”