Facilitation

Supporting your teams to embrace complexity, adapt, and make progress together.

Maggie is a facilitator, trainer, and coach.

FACILITATION

Facilitation is my primary work and my primary love.

With over a decade of experience working with groups, my facilitation methods draw primarily from Liberating Structures. I specialize in creating transformative group experiences across various contexts:

  • Board Retreats

  • Strategic Planning

  • Learning and Development

  • Design Initiatives


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TRAINING

I teach facilitation and leadership skills.

Learn facilitation techniques through targeted training sessions. Explore Liberating Structures and develop practical foundational and advanced skills. Focus on specific skills for organizational success, including:

  • Building Trust

  • Treating Organizations as Adaptive Systems

  • Navigating Organizational Paradoxes

  • Foundational Facilitation Methods

  • Strategic Engagement Approaches

  • Group Collaboration Techniques


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COACHING:

I look forward to supporting the positive change you wish to create.

Coaching is a powerful way of relating and communicating that activates your potential to create meaningful change. My approach is grounded in:

  • Respect and Openness

  • Compassionate Support

  • Rigorous Truth-Telling

  • Assumption of Your Strength and Capability

Coaching challenges and supports you towards your goals in ways you might not achieve alone, guided by the ICF core competencies and a deep belief in your innate potential.


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Since taking this training, thinking ahead about meetings has become fun, and there is a big load of stress that’s gone away. I feel like I have tools to give structure to conversation.”

—Joan P. | King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks

Case Studies

Maggie worked with a small team of Wildlife and Restoration Managers and Engineers from he Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife on a collaborative project near the Lower Columbia River where progress had stalled. Over three days, she introduced frameworks for compromise and trust repair that helped the group address key strategic issues. The team's dynamic shifted as members gained new perspectives, helping move a stuck process forward. The work was marked by candid conversations, courageous moments, and growing mutual respect as team members came to better understand the values driving each person's position.

Maggie has collaborated with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) over several years on a range of projects, from the Virtual Annual Meeting to advancing climate initiatives at the city government level. They have achieved significant milestones in working with Maggie.  Most notably, USDN staff have developed new professional skills, growing into highly effective group facilitators and event designers. They embraced systems dynamics and came to understand that leading through complexity is central to their work. The growth in their ability to navigate and guide complex group processes has been remarkable.