Expertise
Facilitation
We help people to be relational leaders so that they can harness the power of groups to unleash social change. One way we do this is through good facilitation.
Facilitation methods feed into everything we do, including:
- Stakeholder management and coalition building
- Breaking through stalemates and handling difficult conversations
- Creating shared objectives and purpose
- Delivering action learning sets
- Hosting away days and co-creation exercises
- Coaching and advising executives and leaders
- Establishing new collaboration practises and processes
- Peer network management
- Group leadership coaching
We are trained facilitators in the following methodologies:
- Art of Hosting
- Action Learning Set
- World Cafe
- Open Space
- ILM Coaching in Leadership and Management
Our work
Cabinet Office
We’ve facilitated workshops to help the Cabinet Office rethink its social interventions.
Losing Control
We co-convene the Losing Control peer network, which explores new, inclusive and participatory management and facilitation practices.
Hospice UK
We’ve helped Hospice UK start their transition from membership charity to a national movement.
Art of Hosting
We co-convene immersive training sessions on the art of hosting and community organising.
M&S
We helped M&S convene and consult with community groups to rethink the role their stores play in their communities.
House Party
We convened and facilitated a series of conversations between housing activists and social changemakers.
Our approach
We draw on a number of facilitation and leadership practices:
- Democratic decision-making:
- consent-based
- sociocracy
- holocracy
- Inclusive meeting practises
- Stakeholder mapping
- Action learning
- Appreciative inquiry
- Unconferences
- Creativity techniques
- Power dynamics and group dynamics
“The Social Change Agency helped us ask what it means to be inclusive, not just in running a meeting or event, but in making decisions about money. How do you be open and transparent?
It helped having them on the outside looking in, talking to all of our different members and being really inclusive in the process.
We went with them instead of a more traditional organisation because they understood the social mission that we’re trying to achieve. Their experience with networks and another similar organisations was also really critical.”