Gathering Experience Design + Facilitation

 

Let’s co-create an upcoming gathering on your team’s calendar together!

Transformative Gatherings offers two levels of support:

Start-to-Finish Support

Expert guidance to design and facilitate a purposeful gathering, infusing intentionality at every step. Ensure your offsite/training/convening/etc moves your work forward.

Gathering Glow Up

Identify key opportunities to boost engagement for an existing/upcoming gathering with a meeting makeover.

Gathering Glow Up

  • Client completes brief questionnaire of existing/upcoming gathering’s agenda to guide clarity session conversation

  • 75-minute meeting makeover clarity session to align on gathering purpose, outcomes, participatory strategies, and develop an action plan to experiment with components to stop/start/continue doing in upcoming gathering(s)

  • 45-minute post-gathering reflection session to discuss how experimentation went and refine plan for further improvement

“Tes has the magic touch to help you intentionally transform your next gathering into something that not only meets but exceeds your goals. Tes' extensive experience and thoughtful suggestions on how to align my agenda with my ideal results helped me design a cohort-based course experience that garnered rave reviews from participants. I highly recommend working with Tes!”

-Abby Davisson, Author of Money and Love and Course Creator

Start-to-Finish Support

Pre-Gathering:

  • Facilitate high-level strategy sessions (including retrospective of previous gatherings if applicable and visioning for upcoming gathering) to develop strategy that guides planning process

  • Create timeline to guide experience design process

  • Connect on a weekly basis (TBD # meetings depending on gathering complexity, typically ranging from 4-16 weeks) to keep planning moving forward and on track

  • Oversee session development process, including sourcing/coordinating external speakers/facilitators and coaching internal facilitators

  • Create run-of-show to guide and ensure seamless day-of event flow

During Gathering:

  • Emcee gathering and/or facilitate specific participatory sessions

  • Provide behind-the-scenes support to ensure all goes smoothly

Post-Gathering:

  • Create + analyze post-gathering survey to ensure continuous improvement

  • Facilitate debrief conversation to align on what went well and areas of opportunity for the future

“Tes designs a convening’s purpose with deep thought and intention to unlock insights from participants. She then leverages her superpower – facilitation – to execute the event. Her masterful facilitation style brings in all participant voices, encourages diverse perspectives and reflects back themes.

Beyond the conversation, she thinks through the details of the participant experience for both in-person and virtual events. She knows how to ensure participants remain engaged and energized, blending deep thinking work with restorative (and fun!) breaks. The multiple sessions she’s concepted and facilitated for our team are still referenced as standout – some more than five years later.”

-Abby Frost, Director of ESG at Gap Inc.