Our approach: Facilitating change through partnership and praxis

• Start with your reality (context is key!): We begin by listening deeply and engaging in participatory inquiry to understand your specific context, history, challenges, successes, and the diverse experiences within your organization.
• Employ a critical and systemic focus: Together, we move beyond surface problems to analyze underlying internal structures, policies, power relationships, cultural norms, and external systems, identifying both systemic blocks and untapped potential.
• Encourage authentic dialogue and empowering culture: We create and hold spaces for challenging conversations, ensuring diverse perspectives (especially those often marginalized) are heard and valued. We facilitate processes that build trust, enhance collaboration, and enable shared understanding and more equitable decision-making.
• Co-create meaningful strategy and action: Through dynamic, participatory methods (workshops, dialogue sessions, and critical reflection exercises), we guide you collectively to evaluate effectiveness, clarify purpose, define a shared vision, and develop concrete, actionable strategies that resonate with and are owned by those who will implement them.
• Embed praxis – the process of action and reflection: We help integrate an ongoing process of action, critical reflection on that action, and adaptation into your organizational rhythm. This builds your internal capacity for continuous learning, responsiveness, and conscious improvement.
• Align actions with core values: We provide both support and critical challenge to ensure your strategies, activities, and internal practices actively promote equity, participation, social justice, and respect for the communities you aim to serve.

How we can partner with you

• Participatory strategic planning and review: Developing dynamic, living strategies rooted in shared understanding and commitment.
• Critical evaluation frameworks: Co-designing and implementing evaluation approaches that focus on learning, equity, and meaningful impact assessment.
• Theory of change development: Articulating and refining your roadmap for impact, grounded in context and critical analysis.
• Organizational culture assessment and transformation: Facilitating processes to understand and intentionally shape a more equitable, dialogical and empowering internal culture.
• Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy: Moving beyond compliance to embed EDI principles within your structure, culture, and programmes through a critical justice perspective.
• Facilitating complex conversations and conflict transformation: Supporting productive dialogue around challenging issues and navigating conflict constructively.
• Organizational structures and governance: Enhancing governance practices through critical reflection, dialogue, and alignment with organizational values.
• Leadership team development: Building capacity for systems thinking, dialogical leadership, and navigating complexity.

Why choose this approach? The benefits of critical partnership

• Deeper ownership and commitment: Strategies co-created through genuine participation generate stronger understanding, buy-in, and effective implementation.
• More sustainable and meaningful change: Addressing root causes and involving diverse voices leads to change that is deeply embedded and matters to people.
• Enhanced organizational capacity: Your team develops lasting skills in critical thinking, systemic analysis, productive dialogue, collaboration, and reflective practice.
• Greater equity and social justice: Intentionally focusing on equity in both the process (how you work) and the outcomes (your impact) leads to more just results.
• Powerful alignment: Achieve greater coherence between your organization's mission, stated values, internal culture, and external impact.

Flexible and responsive support

Begin the dialogue for transformation