Facilitation and Negotiation Services

Facilitation

We strive to help minimize wheel spinning and dysfunctional dynamics to enable groups to work together more effectively. This is accomplished by honoring, embracing and focusing the wisdom and knowledge  that lays dormant in most groups. These skills are essential to healthy organizations, fair and lasting agreements and to easily implement actions and plans.

We assist individuals and groups to work more effectively, to collaborate and to achieve synergy.

 

Negotiations

When negotiating, your influence is related to the extent to which you share open communication, as well as to the degree of trust established. Conflict should neither be welcomed nor avoided. It is to be expected. Conflict is bound to occur in any group of people with great concern for issues. Conflict reminds us that we are human. Solutions are only possible when conflict is acknowledged and dealt with openly, with the help of all concerned. It is a challenge, a hurdle, but it need not be an insurmountable barrier to success. To affect change, the parties involved must have the needed skills to negotiate.

We assist in addressing inner turmoil and ineffective inter-personal relationships through the design and implementation of win/win solutions.

Facilitation and Negotiation Projects we have completed:

• Chief Negotiator – Office of the Wet’suwet’en (1995 – 2005)
• Child and Family Programs and Services Modeling Treaty Related Measure - Lheidli T’enneh Nation
• Health Advisor, Aboriginal Peoples Council – United Native Nations Society, Vancouver, BC.
• Facilitator, Transformation Process – Ministry of Children and Families
• Member – Ministry of Children and Families Transformation Team
• Advisor, Child and Family Services - BC Assembly of First Nations
• Facilitator – First Nations Leadership Council Provincial Energy Forum
• Facilitator –First Nations Leadership Council Provincial Justice Forum
• Facilitator – National Community in Crisis Forum (Youth Suicide)
• Facilitator – National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Forum
• Facilitator – Northern Authority for Aboriginal for Children and Families Caucus