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CO-DESIGNING TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCES

Roll up your sleeves.

Build your vision.

Spark real change.

This emergent journey is about supporting you to design powerful experiences that foster meaningful participation and drive real action. It’s time to shake things up.

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I offer flexible collaboration in the use of and training in my full suite of facilitation and experience design services. Together, we’ll explore questions like: What transformative impact do you aspire to achieve? What would exceed your wildest dreams? Who do you need to engage to make it happen? Then we will realize the answers together.

FORMAT

End-to-end collaborative delivery of innovative dialogues, stakeholder engagement, and public programming.

TYPES OF OUTCOMES

  • Lead a gathering of 5 to 500 people in a virtual, in-person and/or nature setting.

  • Empower staff members with facilitation training, equipping them to lead events independently and sustain the momentum long after our collaboration concludes.

  • Design for meaningful engagement, collaboration, and co-creation by drawing from a rich experience design toolkit, including Theory U, Liberating Structures, Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, Designing Difficult Conversations, Circle Processes, Theater for Community Conflict and Dialogue, Playback Theater, Warm Data Labs, Art of Hosting, and more.

Typical Process

  1. Initial Consult

    What are you envisioning?

  2. Contracting Process

    How will we collaborate for maximum impact?

  3. Co-design & Staff Training

    Let’s dive in and starting bringing this to life.

  4. Event Execution

    Support in the moment as the unexpected unfolds.

  5. Debrief

    What did we learn? What will sustain and amplify results?

Bundle with …

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1:1 support for select leaders, ensuring their personal development enables them to support the greater vision you are collaboratively realizing.

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Building the bonds and skills within your team so that you are walking the talk of what you seek to inspire through the greater event.

  • Working with Bridget is like a masterclass in "creating space" and designing gatherings with intention. As a facilitator, Bridget is adept at designing and sequencing activities so that everyone engages in the process and collaborates to achieve shared goals. Whether she is working with youth or adults, Bridget's inviting, creative, and authentic approach adds riches and centers people in the design experience.

    Kathleen Newell, Director of Youth Programming, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

  • We hired Bridget in 2021 to support our team to transition a multi-day gathering of 300+ people online. Bridget listened deeply to what we wanted and worked collaboratively to co-design a path forward. She emphasized training our team so that they felt empowered to facilitate the design. Not only did we get glowing reviews from participants, our staff left feeling more confident facilitating meaningful dialogue. Since then, we’ve worked with Bridget many more times to build our staff’s capacity and support us in designing impactful gatherings!

    Adrienne Andrews, Deputy Chief of Staff, AmeriCorps

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The first step is a simple chat via Zoom.

If you were 10x bolder, what would you want to create? Let’s talk about it, because if you don’t do it, who will?

“When we don’t examine the deeper assumptions behind why we gather, we end up skipping too quickly to replicating old, staid formats of gathering.”

― Priya Parker —