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Facilitation & Teambuilding

Supporting groups & teams in communication and change processes

Interactions and encounters with other people can be a gift – but can also be challenging, exhausting and unsettling. They require the constant exploration of similarities and differences, expectations and concessions, closeness and distance.

This also applies to groups, teams and collectives. The occupation of shared spaces can make it easier to establish tasks and goals, and help foster familiarity, closeness and self-evidence. But it can also enable considerations essential to joint action to fall by the wayside: “What actually unites us?” – “Do we still share the same goals?” – “Do we have a common understanding of our respective roles, tasks and hierarchies?” – “Why is there often tension in the group and what do we do about this?” – “What happened to our initial excitement?” The demand of everyday life can make it hard to find the time, space and for these and other important considerations.

External facilitation can help a group or team refocus and provide a fresh perspective on its processes and dynamics. These two latter elements are crucial to group cohesion and effectiveness, but they can sometimes be challenging and conflictual.

My own amazement at what facilitation can achieve in group processes, at how conflicts can not only be resolved through facilitation, but transformed into constructive potential, and at how deadlocked communication patterns and dynamics can be loosened, led me to train in the art and craft of facilitation.

My approach

Sharing is part of being truly together. Communication, shared language – both verbal and non-verbal – is the lifeline of all joint processes. As a facilitator, I see my primary task as supporting communication and change processes in groups, teams and collectives.

It is important to me to see and appreciate the uniqueness of every group, every team, every collective. This is why my work usually begins with a joint assessment of the group or team informed by appropriate methods. From here, the next steps emerge, sometimes predictable, sometimes not. The path reveals itself as you proceed …

I consider mindfulness, the ability to improvise and humor to be my most important tools as a facilitator. Impartiality and neutrality are a matter of course.

What do I offer?

  • Guiding for groups and teams undergoing formation, realignment or change or experiencing conflict
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Facilitation of meetings, conferences or events

Focus:

  • Arts, Culture & Cultural Politics
  • Education and Political Education
  • Gender & Intersectionality
  • City & Society
  • Selforganized (Queer-) Feminist Contexts
  • Middle-East-Conflict

What do I bring to the table?

In addition to my background in philosophy and documentary film, I am familiar with queer-feminist contexts, activist contexts, self-organized groups and the theory and practice of commons/commoning. And I try to incorporate the heart-, mind-, body-connection into my work wherever possible.

Languages

German and English

Fee

My fees vary depending on the request. For activist, voluntary and other non-commercial contexts, they depend on what’s required of me and your budget.