I host group conversations.  Those conversations may include work involving community issues.  It may be about identifying an organizational direction amid a rapidly changing competitive landscape.  The purpose may be supporting civil dialogue.  Perhaps it involves conflict.  

Whatever the particular issue is, I utilize a specific protocol to design a process that encourages high engagement to move from ordinary talk to transformational conversation.  Questions of depth are the "tools" used, and an important part includes creating a sense of belonging and support for the well-being of the participants.     

The goals:

Relatedness.  Building social capital, an environment of neighborliness, creates and sustains the kind of place we wish to live in.  It heals a wounded culture.

Gift-mindedness. The purpose is to shift the narrative from problems and problem-solving approaches, deficiencies and what’s missing to strengths, our gifts, and what we wish to create.  Traditional problem-solving falls short in complex human systems; the framework of gift-mindedness is required.  

The inversion of cause.   This means understanding that I am cause, or “I create my world." I have agency.  This is about truly understanding that the world I encounter is my own production. Blaming and our wish to change others is an escape from my own freedom. The goal is to take responsibility, which is a way to claim your own power.