Guiding Threads Collective supports organizations and collectives to become strong, resilient, and effective vehicles for social and economic change.
What We Do
As skilled and creative consultants, facilitators, and mediators, we cross-pollinate the best techniques and practices from across our movement to provide tailored, transformative support to your organization. We design and hold conversations and processes to help groups overcome structural challenges, bringing strategy, expertise, and skills to guide groups towards deeper alignment.
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We design organizational practices and structures for groups seeking to strengthen their culture and bring their internal operations in line with their values. With you, we co-create and implement creative and inclusive policies and practices around key areas of organizational culture, including decision-making, feedback, conflict, governance, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) work. Learn more about our organizational development offerings here.
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Through coaching, we offer values-aligned thought partnership, supportive space for reflection and deeper understanding of self, and practical advice and tools to support our movement leaders. Learn more about our coaching offerings here.
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Through our organizational consulting and facilitation work, we help your group clarify its purpose, sharpen strategy, and chart a path forward. We facilitate strategic planning, visioning, and Theory of Change processes to support organizations in identifying their place in a larger ecosystem, building authentic relationships, and creating tangible change through their work. Learn more about our organizational development offerings here.
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We design and hold processes to support groups in conflict to identify the root causes of hurt and mistrust, build shared understanding of differing perspectives, and find a path forward after rupture. Learn more about our mediation offerings here.
We also create trainings that support groups in approaching conflict with curiosity and rigor, building collective resilience, and learning new tools for disagreeing well with one another. Learn more about our workshops here.
Our Impact
We’ve worked with over 40 organizations and groups to strengthen their workplace culture, build equitable and effective policies and practices, and increase the impact of their work. Our clients include nonprofits, worker cooperatives, philanthropic organizations, collectives and coalitions, base-building organizations, farms, schools, spiritual communities and religious institutions. Across sectors and issue areas, we are trusted partners of organizations working for social and economic change.
Want to learn more about our impact and outcomes?
“Working with Guiding Threads Collective was a dream come true. I so appreciated their depth of skill and attention to both the energy and dynamics of our group and the vision for our work together. Being facilitated by them felt like I could show up fully, share fully, and be held fully. Our multiracial group was exquisitely supported to navigate uncomfortable conversations with thoroughness and care!”
- chalchi kardós, Queer Farmer Network Steering Committee Member
Curious if we might be a good fit?
Let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll be in touch!
