Supple Community Consulting
Our consulting supplements the group processes available on this platform. While Supple Community Groups are designed for self-facilitation, sometimes a consultant for facilitation and professional guidance is a key ingredient for catalyzing change. We’re here to help!
Conflict Consulting
Is your group entrenched in a known conflict? Is there an unnamed sense that conflict is impacting your team? Is there a past conflict that lives on in the life of your organization? In any of these scenarios, Conflict Consulting with Supple Community can help your group work with the tension and shift into a healthy future. Conflict can stagnate movement, but you can regain flexibility as a group and move back into readiness for action and creativity. If appropriate for your group, Conflict Consulting can involve a facilitated version of our Conflict Capacity Groups.
Anna of Supple Community has a specialized interest in working with faith communities in conflict.
When needed, Anna can also provide civil mediation services in the State of Minnesota.
Organizational Change
Organizational change facilitation with Supple Community applies one of the processes available on this platform (Agility Groups or Ground/Shift Groups) or offers a process curated specifically for you. Supple Community processes help you find your group’s voice and your unique expression of what liberatory social transformation can look like in your context. Organizational Change Consulting can be a brief part of your change process or a consistent component of your arc of change.
“ReST” facilitation: Restoring Strength after Trauma
Sometimes people think of trauma healing as a personal, individual thing. But harm and trauma regularly impact groups, communities, and organizations too.
You may be acutely aware of a traumatic event impacting your group, for example violence in your community or workplace, and looking for support in navigating with your group to a renewed place of strength.
Or you may be struggling as a group with a more vague sense of challenge or crisis, without clarity as to what specifically has overwhelmed your group’s ability to function: for example, there may be impacts from staff or board turnover, or a legacy of an individual’s harmful behavior, or a social condition that impacts many of your lives.
“ReST” facilitation with Supple Community endeavors to bring you back into your strength as a group and as individuals impacted by a group. Supple Community’s framework for ReST comes from a variety of restorative models, including Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience. ResT is co-facilitated by Anna Mercedes and Beverly Bushyhead at a pace that fits your group.
Mission and Vision
Vision and Plan Consulting with Supple Community involves getting clear together on what your group values and how you will move strategically into alignment with those values in order to make your intended contribution to the greater good.
The Supple Community approach to Mission and Vision Consulting affirms your group’s capacity for vital contributions to our world, with a facilitation style that centers social inclusivity and liberatory transformation, somatic awareness, and spiritual attention.
Supple Community Consulting Team
Anna Mercedes is the lead facilitator for Supple Community. You can read more about Anna here. For some group needs, Anna will consult for your group without a co-consultant. However, co-facilitation or joint consulting is a strong model for liberatory social transformation whenever it is logistically possible. Supple Community partners especially:
* with Beverly Bushyhead Consulting,
* with Minnesota colleagues who are certified practitioners from the Center for Mind Body Medicine, and
* with colleagues who are qualified neutrals under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice.
Mind Body Skills
Guided by proven Mind Body Skills and grounded in spirituality and mindfulness, Mind Body Skills Groups offers your team tools to restore your energy, increase your health at work or in your organizing, and thrive together. Supple Community can help facilitate a Mind Body Skills Group for your community or point you to other facilitators in this modality.