For groups with an inspired purpose ~ contributing to harmony on Earth

Is your Community Project or Organization ready to up-level your collaboration?

Transform Challenges

Are you experiencing...

  • Power struggles and voices going unheard

  • Lack of integrity or accountability

  • Unclear or divergent sense of purpose

  • Blame, defence, or fear to speak up

  • Competitiveness leaving people unvalued

  • Reactivity coming from unresolved issues

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Thrive as a Team!

Imagine what's possible...

  • Establish Coherence together

  • Harness challenges for growth

  • Overcome interpersonal conflicts

  • Maintain solidarity amidst differences

  • Value and integrate relevant voices

  • Balance connection with progress

Build your collaboration capacities for effective action to realize your purpose together!

My Approach

I custom design the structure and focus for your meeting or event to be successful in your aims.

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Facilitation Strengths

Bringing forth everyone's gifts 

Including the voices of group members

Staying focused on the common purpose

Providing clear presence and intuitive insight

Communicating consciously

Perceiving issues beneath the surface

Being optimistic and practical

Empathizing with group members needs

Synthesizing the group's values

Potential Areas of Focus

MEETINGS: Visioning, decisions, feedback, appreciation

MEDIATION: Conflict Resolution and trust-building

HEALING: Empathy and learning from challenges

TEAM BUILDING: Relationship building and connection

MILESTONES: Heartfelt leadership for rites of passage

Practices intrinsic to my Facilitation

Compassionate Communication

Conscious Relating

A communication process supporting us to relate consciously and compassionately. It gives us a practical and effective map for transforming habitual reactions (judging and blaming ways of speaking and thinking) into conscious connections that value everyone's needs. Also known as Nonviolent Communication.

Sociocracy

Whole Systems Self Governance

Sociocracy is a governance system based on consent decision-making, ensuring that every voice is heard and valued in creating shared agreements. It uses interconnected circles of roles and responsibilities to foster collaboration and transparency. This approach promotes inclusivity, adaptability, and collective effectiveness in organizations and communities.

Somatic Counseling

Embodied Awareness

Cultivating body focused awareness and inner resources, witnessing sensations, thoughts and emotions, listening to the wisdom of the heart, and allowing what is stored in the body to have expression and movement in order to release un-processed experiences and become more integrated.

Integral Yoga

Divine Life

The practice of bringing all aspects of oneself and one's life into union with the Divine; transforming the physical, mental, emotional, energetic, spiritual bodies into an instrument for our soul, as the intrinsic Divine within.

What people are saying about my facilitation

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presence

“I greatly appreciate Melody’s presence as a facilitator. She is able to flow with the need of the group in the moment. I feel safe around her. She is transparent, elegantly synthesizes ideas, keeps things on track and is sensitive to dynamics in the group. She set the groundwork for what is to come. By going through these considerations now, things will be infinitely easier in the future.”

 

Eli Mead, Osteopath

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integrity

“Melody recently facilitated two sessions with our group of 7 individuals grappling with divided opinions on an issue. Melody was very gifted in her ability to read the group and validate each person's feelings. She slowed the pace of our processing, which helped us develop more compassion for opposing views. I have worked with mediators before, but none were anywhere close to handling conflict with such warmth, grace and integrity. Melody was especially adept at summarizing and reflecting where the group was at, and suggesting helpful next steps. I would highly recommend Melody for any conflict resolution situation.”

 

Lisa Bramson, Nelson, BC

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empathy

“My team and I were in dire need of support around interpersonal communication. We had developed a pattern of violently communicating with one another. Throughout a number of in-person and virtual sessions that Melody facilitated, she helped us navigate these communication discrepancies and develop a healthier way of communicating.  She provided a space in which we were able to share our experiences and have them reflected with empathy by her and members of the team. In this process we were also able to recognize our own and each other’s needs. We were beyond grateful for the support she provided us. I found that my experience working with Melody surpassed all of my expectations.”

Sam Sebastian, Co-Founder New Moon Festival

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deep listening

"I have been a participant in a couple of Melody’s workshops, and have been awestruck with her ability to connect with people. Melody has a natural talent when it comes to listening; she is genuinely curious about peoples struggles and breakthroughs with equal interest. I see her as listening with her whole body, totally present. Her listening gifts are also seen in the questions she poses. Her questions help people to really understand what is happening on a deep level, beyond our stories."

Patricia Rawson, Employment Strategist at Community Futures

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focused awareness

“Melody brings a focused awareness to our group that has enabled us to plow through challenging, complex issues and reveal a clear path toward understanding and resolution. She inspires trust and has a sensitivity and intuitive grasp on how to field our needs and extract information and present it back to us in a more cohesive and organized and workable fashion. She was very spontaneous in dealing with situations as they arose so that the group could find resolution through troubling circumstances. It often seemed like Melody was so connected to our creative process that she could have been part of our community.”

Laura Wilensky, Greensong Sanctuary

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embodies the work

“Melody not only teaches this work, she embodies this work. It was really profound watching her work with our group. If you want relationships in your organization to be as compassionate, effective and clear as possible, start with Compassionate Communication.  Having staff use Compassionate Communication in the workplace can transform service delivery, meetings, productivity, ethics and morale.  I highly recommend Melody in helping make this happen for your organization.” 

 

Lynnene Lewis Director of Quality Assurance and Family Programs Kootenay Family Place

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trusted support

“When we had our first meeting I was anxious, wondering if I would be heard and able to speak my truth. Afterwards, when going into a meeting with Melody, I was excited and calm, knowing that I would be supported and knowing resolution and clarity will be obtained.”

Hope Mead, Greensong Sanctuary

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