Facilitation for Public Agencies

SEEDS can help facilitate:

Retreats & Strategy Sessions
Group Meetings
Community Engagement/Dialogue/Forums

Would you like help keeping community meetings productive and positive? Are you facing a difficult issue or creating new strategy within your organization? A trained, impartial facilitator can keep things on track and the group moving forward.

How Does Facilitation Help?

Facilitation can help any group accomplish its goals. A facilitator trained in group dynamics helps participants understand their common objectives, and guides them in formulating a plan to achieve them, without having a position on the issues under discussion or an emotional stake in the outcome. The facilitator also helps the group to achieve consensus on disagreements. Facilitation is especially effective for complex, multi-party issues involving many different stakeholders, such as community meetings on sensitive subjects.

How Much Does It Cost?

Public agency facilitation services are billed at $100-$250 per hour, on a sliding scale. Some projects may be subsidized or underwritten by grants or individual or corporate sponsorship.

Success Stories

How does facilitation of community meetings actually work? Read more to read about a sample large group, multi-party facilitation between an agency and concerned citizens.

Contact us to request facilitation services or get more information.