Our Services

Unlike other styles of facilitation, at In The Works, we prioritize belonging as essential to thriving teams, effective organizations, winning movements, and lasting change. Ensuring that every body is able to contribute to and benefit from the process requires us to center how we belong and the responsibility we have to one another. We strive to create the conditions for all who participate to understand where they belong and how they can contribute authentically to positive outcomes. Belonging can be woven into:

  • Organization Development

  • Leadership Development

  • Board Development

  • Team Building

  • Team Retreats

  • Healing Circles

  • Strategic Planning

  • Work Planning

  • We prioritize belonging in our gathering planning, facilitations, and coaching. We think of belonging at three different levels:

    1. Individually - this is a felt sense of belonging, of welcome and of having a place/space. 

    2. Inter-personally – this is about how we belong to one another in relationship. How are we responsible to and for one another. How do we turn toward on another in times of discomfort, crisis, duress, or joy. this means that we maximize participation 

    3. Institutionally – this refers to the policies and protocols that build belonging or undermine it. Consider who gets covered under insurance, who the grievance process/procedures protect, etc. 

    Because we focus on belonging at all three of these levels when we’re in session we tend to get results that maximize participation and connection. In every session or service we offer, we focus on three things: analysis-building, relationship-building and skill-building. This is what it takes to build belonging. 

  • Well-Tending™ defines our trauma stewardship practice. We offer this service for individuals and collectives on the frontlines of social change work. The groundbreaking work of Laura Ven Dernoot Lipsky, woke many of us up to the need for a different model of organizing, leading and supporting social change work. One that was sustainable, accountable and ethical.

    In this aspect of our work, we tend to the wellness that is present (no matter how depleted) with individuals and within collectives to help them build self-sustaining practices and cultures for the long-haul.

  • In addition to offering Belonging-Based™ Facilitation to client communities and organizations, we also train facilitators in this and other models of group work. We offer some skills-based trainings on the essentials of facilitation: Listening, Inquiry, Connecting and Belonging.

    Additionally, we offer Belonging-Based™ Facilitation training primarily through ongoing commitment from learners including an initial training with regular follow-up coaching sessions as well as a learning community of facilitators. Keep an eye out for our first cohort model of facilitation training for fellow healers working for social change.

  • At In The Works, we know to build, fortify, and repair belonging — many of us need time with a coach for rest, reflection and response. Our coaching helps an individual or group identify and hone their discernment, wisdom, values, and actions toward a more healing and relational way of being. Coaching can be a single session or series; to move through a specific need and moment in the work.