strategic
facilitation & consultation

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.

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

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!

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

We bring a focused approach to fields and topics such as: food justice, restorative justice, mental health, somatics, public speaking, and facilitation coaching.

our strategic facilitation services

  • 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

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

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 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.

Woven Studios

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Clarifying your vision, amplifying your voice!

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Woven Studios ⌓ Clarifying your vision, amplifying your voice! ⌓

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 ____, we invite other partners and collaborators to join us to ensure you have what you need for a successful experience.

  • 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, Strategic Advisor  

    Omi’s facilitation is guided by Black Feminist principles and theatrical jazz aesthetics. Her work focuses on using art as a strategy for everyone seeking social transformation. She founded and co-facilitated The Austin Project (2001-2011)—a collective of Global Majority women and allies who use art for personal growth and social change, as well as The Diaspora Project (2019-2020)—an in-person and virtual gathering of Black women art makers. 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 is Professor Emerita from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, a mother, a Queer wife and a curious sojourner. Omi’s intergenerational leadership and depth of experience across fields of social justice provide invaluable frameworks for strategic planning processes with our clients.

  • 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.

  • Founder

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

  • Founder

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

  • Founder

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

selected past clients

Woven Studios and Creative Director, Leigh Robbie Gaymon-Jones 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

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