strategic
facilitation &
consultation
Our mindful facilitation guides mission-driven teams from complex ideas to actionable results and meaningful connections.
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!
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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.
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Strategic Planning & Implementation
We guide your team to define priorities, allocate resources effectively, and collaboratively put strategies into action for lasting outcomes.
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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.
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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.
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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 in 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
We curate a project-specific team from our dynamic network of expert facilitators and trusted partners. This ensures your team has the exact skills needed —from business management and marketing to project management—for a successful experience.
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Facilitator, Brand Strategist, Program Strategist, Strategic Planner
Leigh Robbie’s work is informed by over a decade of experience connecting communities to community, art land, and food, and nearly 2 decades of experience as a trained facilitator. Her facilitation is greatly influenced by years spent leading and learning alongside teenagers in youth farming organizations, directing community food projects, and teaching in youth and adult classrooms. 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.
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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.
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Brand Strategist, SEO Strategist
Valeria is a dedicated earth worker, seed saver, and innovator committed to the practice of interdependence. Her work as a facilitator is deeply informed by her background in communications, grassroots organizing, climate justice, and agro-ecology. Bringing a collaborative spirit and creative approach, she guides groups through dynamic discussions and helps them articulate their vision. She thrives on helping people turn these concepts into tangible outcomes, and ensuring their message is clear and their progress is meaningful.
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Facilitator, Communications Strategist
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.
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Facilitator, Strategic Advisor, Strategic Planner
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.
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Facilitator, Key Results Measurement Manager, Strategic Planner
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
The Woven Studios team, led by Creative Director Leigh Robbie Gaymon-Jones, has facilitated meetings, workshops, and strategic planning processes for a wide range of impactful community organizations.
BIPOC Agroecology Network
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.
