Funded by The McConnell Foundation working as part of a team with Social Innovation Generation at the University of Waterloo in Toronto, Canada to design and deliver their ‘Sustainagility’ workshops to facilitate social innovation projects to build out globally. A total of eight Founder organisations and start-ups came together to workshop their core offer and develop a strategy that could deliver expansion including Roots of Empathy, originally from Canada and now operating in the UK, USA, Rep. of Ireland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.

A team of clergy from a synagogue came to us concerned about a very sensitive personal conflict between two of the team – could we help mediate and repair relationships so they could continue to serve their community? Through a series of facilitated conversations between and with the individuals involved and the wider team they were able to move to a different place and find a way forward that worked for them all.

A global majority women’s organisation asked for some consultancy as they faced a number of challenges in planning for the future. The organisation stood at a crossroads as it moved towards celebrating a significant anniversary and at an important place of transition with the founding team getting older and thinking about their own and the organisation’s future. Individual conversations and a team awayday enabled assessment of different internal perspectives on the impact of it’s work including:

• Perceptions of achievements and the impact of it’s campaigning and influencing,
• What had worked well and what could be improved upon,
• It’s structure and internal processes and recommendations for options for future organisational development

The lead lawyer representing some of the families bereaved by the Hillsborough Disaster wanted some thinking partner support prior to and during a long, multiple death incident inquest. Working alongside them in selecting the team, supporting the beginning of the process and then thinking with them and attending to the dynamics and pressures of the work, the team was able to function well despite the intensity of the process, months away from home and long hours.

Working across three charities Age UK Essex/MHLECA/ Independent Age to support the Care Home Development Programme by bringing together staff from each organisation to explore and develop a shared language and align on purpose and process.

Working in different roles to support a Board through a change from multiple CCGs to an ICB as part a of an organisational development consultancy intervention. One of us acted as a thinking partner to the project lead who worked with the Board and one part of the coaching pair working with the individual leaders. Collectively we worked as a reflecting team to sense make the processes emerging in the system.