Me facilitating a team away day
Hire me as a facilitator
I am able to confidently and compassionately facilitate anything from complex and multi-layered collaborations, to intimate small group conversations, to difficult conflicts and disagreements.
At the moment I’m most interested in facilitating:
Co-creation and generative processes (where people are producing things together)
Collective learning processes
Co-budgeting processes
Community and relationship building
Justice-centred research processes
Restorative and transformational approaches to conflict
Get in touch via ray@and-breathe.org to work with me.
“Ray’s ability to engage with a wide range of collaborators across the community-engaged research landscape has proven invaluable in building trusted relationships and gathering valuable insights. Their deep understanding of equality and diversity along with the ability to actively listen to stakeholders and engage them with empathy and sensitivity has been a true asset in fostering a participatory and inclusive approach.”
Photo of one of the Holding Space cohorts on Zoom together
Learn with me
As part of the Holding Space Collective I run multiple experiential facilitation training programmes ranging from accessible 5-week courses to 9-month learning cohorts.
Train your team
I can design facilitation training specific to the context and dynamics your team works within. I’ve supported funders to develop the skills for running participatory grant making processes, researchers to be able to hold group spaces in a trauma-informed way, agencies to be able to navigate power dynamics with clients in co-design processes and managers to make space for quieter members of their team.
I also adopt an approach whereby those who have been skilled up by me can practice implementing those new skills, design shared facilitation approaches together, and can confidently pass those skills on to others within the team.
“Ray has given me the tools to create open communication with my team, get out of my box and try out new ways of working, and most importantly encouraged me to continue to question and learn.”