strategic
facilitation &
consultation

We navigate complex ideas, nurture relationships, commit to rigor and arrive at new and exciting places, together. 

With a commitment to presence and awareness, we expertly navigate complexity and nuance.

We guide your team to arrive at exciting new outcomes. See your relationships take root.

Let us be your guide through deep waters.

What is
strategic
facilitation?

Strategic Facilitation is a process of purposefully and diligently aligning your practices with your goals and values. Strategic Facilitation is a method to help you walk your talk, with guidance and support!

  • Brand Strategy Alignment

    We streamline processes to harmonize your identity, values, and messaging throughout every interaction, building a consistent brand presence and amplifying your reach.

  • Strategic Planning & Implementation

    We guide your team to define priorities, allocate resources effectively, and collaboratively put strategies into action for lasting outcomes.

  • Program Development

    We partner with organizations and teams to design programs from concept to execution. Our  approach ensures your initiatives are thoughtfully structured, community-centered, and set up for long-term success.

  • Team & Network Building

    We design and facilitate engaging experiences that encourage open communication and create resilient, deeply-connected teams, making your next gathering a catalyst for stronger relationships and better collaboration.

  • Additional Services

    We also offer tailored facilitation services to help you achieve clarity:
    - streamlining decision making processes
    - achieving mission, vision, value alignment
    - honing public speaking & presenting
    - skilled panel moderation
    - consultation for effective workshop design
    - specialized workshops on branding, communications event production, meeting facilitation and more!

our approach

Culturally-rooted and impact-driven, our approach to strategic planning is informed by our years of training in methodologies of facilitation, leadership development, program design, Emergent Strategy, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, somatics, reparative processes and Just Transitions.

We walk hand and hand with our clients, in an intimate process of deep exploration, generation and detailed strategic mapping.

We invest in building meaningful relationships with you and your team and in deepening relationships across your team, so that there is deep buy-in to the goals and plans that are developed throughout the process.

areas of expertise

We bring a focused approach to fields and topics such as:

  • food justice

  • community arts

  • restorative justice

  • somatics

  • leadership development

  • non-profit management

  • design & branding

  • facilitation coaching

we build a better world

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through training & practice

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we build a better world ⌓ through training & practice ⌓

meet the
facilitators

Drawing from a dynamic array of experienced facilitators, curate project-specific teams to meet the needs of our clients. In addition to this robust crew who specialize in business management, marketing and communications, and project management, we invite other partners and collaborators to join us to ensure you have what you need for a successful experience.

  • Facilitator, Brand Strategist, Program Advisor 

    Leigh Robbie’s work is informed by over a decade of experience connecting communities to land, food and sustainable life practices, and nearly 2 decades of experience as a trained facilitator. At UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) she managed the historic Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, guiding a the center’s strategic planning process and facilitating the apprenticeship program’s redesign and relaunch. Her work as a facilitator is greatly influenced by years spent leading and learning alongside teenagers at the farming organization, Urban Roots, managing the community food project, Alemany Farm, and directing the education department at Foodwise. As the Chief Creative Officer of The Nest, Leigh Robbie brings equal parts experience and enthusiasm to her curation and leadership of the Woven Studios strategic planning and facilitation team.

  • Facilitator, Strategic Advisor  

    Omi’s facilitation is guided by Black Feminist principles and theatrical jazz aesthetics. She has conducted workshops for Solidaire Network, The Ford Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Educafro (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Thousand Currents, the Institute on Governance and Democracy (Ile-Ife, Nigeria), and a host of academic institutions. Omi holds a Ph.D. from New York University, and an Embodied Social Justice Certificate from Transformative Change. Omi’s intergenerational leadership and depth of experience across fields of social justice provide invaluable frameworks for strategic planning processes with our clients.

  • Founder

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Facilitator

    Anchal has years of experience facilitating different stakeholders through processes like development strategy, communications strategy and event planning. While at Castanea Fellowship, Anchal led the Executive Director and Executive Communications Committee through communications strategy planning and adoption process. While at Minnow, Anchal designed and implemented the organization’s grassroots funding strategy and engaged the Minnow community to mobilize resources. And while at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, she shepherded the organization towards the creation of Major Donors strategy for 2020-2022. Anchal brings a deep understanding of food systems and organizational systems to our strategic planning sessions with clients, weaving together skills in fundraising, communications, and design to support organizations rooted in social justice values.

  • Facilitator, Strategic Advisor

    Shana holds twenty-five years of stewarding organizations through processes that map ways toward collective visions. Her experience has been focused on justice and cultural organizing, infrastructure development, program and curriculum design, cooperative economics, participatory planning and evaluation, team management, communications, event planning, and collective learning through a popular education praxis. Shana’s deep and wide background in strategic planning and organizational design gives our clients access to a range of methodologies and tactics to support their growth and strategic development.

  • Facilitator & Key Results Measurement Manager

    Kat is a strategic leader with a versatile skill set and a broad perspective. She draws on 15 years as Owner/CEO of an educational services company, which sold in 2016 and is still thriving. She has also led a parallel 20+ year career at the University of California in various roles within research and operations. She has spent the last 3+ years as the Director of Strategy and Transformation at a global project management consultancy. Kat holds a Master of Business Administration and certifications in Project Management,Prosci Organizational Change Management, and a Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt. She brings a strong foundation in organizational principles and strategic thinking that help our clients develop innovative strategies to drive positive change and build supportive structures.

who we work with

Woven Studios and Creative Director, Leigh Robbie Gaymon-Jones and the other members of the team have have facilitated meetings, workshops and strategic planning processes for a diversity of impactful community groups & organizations.

BIPOCAN

Boys & Girls Club, San Francisco

California Institute of Integral Studies

Foodwise 

San Francisco State University

Stanford University

Thousand Currents

Women's Vitality Center

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

let’s talk about your facilitation needs!

Our experienced facilitation team will alleviate some of the work for your next group staff retreat, board meeting, strategic planning session or community meeting.