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We serve the intersectional communities that have been historically oppressed. The marginalized, the outcasts, and the disenfranchised are our people. We are the global majority building our new reality together.
We inspire, equip and amplify change agents. We dismantle oppression from the ground up and from the inside out. Healing and joy are our calling.
By investing care, peer support, and capacity building resources into our communities, we accelerate our emergence into a positive-sum future. Together we bend the arc of history towards justice and ensure our collective liberation becomes reality.
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You want to build a diverse organization where everyone thrives and feels connected to the mission? Want to grow through conflict rather that suffer in it? Need to plan, strategize & collaborate? Let’s do the work. You need the Consultancy…
Facilitator's Academy Winter Session 2024 covered the following modules towards certification: Mindful Meetings, The Collaborators Mindset, Facilitating Connection and Facilitating Positive Sum Decisions. Participants also earned 15 hours of live practice towards certification.
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Emily has the ability to not only train and facilitate, however, to be able to read the room and flex work when interests and needs have a degree of teams not quite being on the same page so to speak. Her ability to assist in teams building trust, valuing each other, and listening to story is exceptional!
Emily is great at what she does. She keeps things moving and doesn't waste our time. We were able to get through hard topics and she is super organized so it is easy to go back and remember where we were.
Emily is a phenomenal facilitator. I have worked with her numerous times and I always walk away with something new. She is willing to adjust her training on the spot depending on what her attendees need/want. She has trained our negotiations team, district level administration and board of trustees. I would highly recommend Emily as a trainer.
I really enjoyed the tone of this training. It was inspirational, informative and transformational. The responsiveness of the trainers to our needs (sometimes on the fly) was top-notch. The humor that was interwoven allowed for a space of genuineness and growth. "Growth edges" is new vocabulary that I have integrated into my life. Thank you, thank you!
This training was very helpful with generating crucial conversations among our team and building mutual understanding between members.
Working with the Swell crew was a tremendous experience, both as a participant and as a fellow facilitator period. [They] took the time to understand our context and what we were hoping to achieve at the end of our time together. [Their] facilitation brought in new methods that were truly appreciated by our attendees.
I would give the service and training provided us by Emily and the Collective Consultancy 10 out of 10 stars. I have been a part of the classified negotiating team since before interest based bargaining (IBB) was introduced to Los Alamitos Unified School District, to be honest I hope we never stop using this creative way of negotiating. It has given us the ability to work together as one team to come up with solutions for contract and budget issues. By working together it takes the us against them mentally out of the process. Also our relationship outside the negotiating table never been better...
Emily was a great IBB facilitator for our negotiation session. She was able to help the teams navigate several contentious topics always steering the room back to the basic tenets of the IBB process.
Emily and Nina emphasized vulnerability and holding space for transformation. My individual growth was held in the trust that I could show up as my full self, warts and all! Our team benefited from the efficient and focused, yet open and adaptive way they guided us through our work.
I can't thank Swell enough for the support! They helped us do what we needed to do, but often with small organizations it is hard to find the capacity to fill the need. Swell made that a lot easier. Having an outside organization to help facilitate our conversations was amazingly beneficial, as my company is organized into various tired groups with different levels of hierarchy. I found that having the 2 facilitators from Swell was particularly efficient in staying on track and keeping us all organized, as one could lead the conversation in an organic way and the other could focus on note-taking so we could all reference those pieces of information later.
TSC is run by women of color who believe in creating spaces to foster the growth of others. I am all about women of color in leadership and in collective spaces for healing, growth, training, and action.
I really enjoyed the tone of this training. It was inspirational, informative and transformational. The responsiveness of the trainers to our needs (sometimes on the fly) was top-notch. The humor that was interwoven allowed for a space of genuineness and growth. “Growth edges” is new vocabulary that I have integrated into my life. Thank you, thank you!
Working with the Swell crew was a tremendous experience, both as a participant and as a fellow facilitator period. [They] took the time to understand our context and what we were hoping to achieve at the end of our time together. [Their] facilitation brought in new methods that were truly appreciated by our attendees.
The Facilitator’s Academy was a very invigorating experience and helped reorient my life when I needed it. I appreciate the manner that Emily as well as the team for facilitating such a wonderful space. It encouraged me to come out of my shell and roar as a lion
I learned so much form the Facilitators Academy – it wasn’t only about facilitation tools (although we learned a lot about those!) – it was really about holding a gentle space for people to bring forward their most authentic selves (even in these awkward zoom spaces). In these days when the world gives us so much reason to feel rage, despair, and grief, holding gentle space is a critical skill. People can feel all those challenging feelings *and* get in touch with sources of joy and hope. Being in the “room” with the main facilitator, Emily Gonzales was a revelation. I felt as if a more communitarian future were being manifested before my eyes.
I can’t thank Swell enough for the support! They helped us do what we needed to do, but often with small organizations it is hard to find the capacity to fill the need. Swell made that a lot easier. Having an outside organization to help facilitate our conversations was amazingly beneficial, as my company is organized into various tired groups with different levels of hierarchy. I found that having the 2 facilitators from Swell was particularly efficient in staying on track and keeping us all organized, as one could lead the conversation in an organic way and the other could focus on note-taking so we could all reference those pieces of information later.
