How are you doing right now? Really, how are you doing? More often than not these days, that question is answered with a “hanging in there” or “I’m doing just okay” kind of tone. We are barely crawling out of a rough two years with our communities experiencing multiple dramatic new realities connected to the …
Zoomed Out? Me too. There are other ways to virtually engage
We are now finding out that Zoom Fatigue, along with Quarantine Fatigue, is a real thing. Research on this has been showing up in the media quite a bit lately (see New York Times article link in Rad Resources below). And yet, now more than ever we need these tools to connect. At Ellis …
The Dance of Consensus: a Demo

If you’d like to see what a Consensus Workshop looks like, we teamed up with Kase Scott, a young and rising videographer, to create a 3-minute demonstration of a process that is very difficult to describe in words. Last month, as part of a larger strategic planning process, we convened multiple stakeholders in Nevada County …
Holding the Reigns – Facilitation, a Good & Gentle Grip
Doing What You Do Best: Wise Selection of Strategic Directions
The Environmental Scan: Using Informed Insight to Manifest Your Vision
Celebrate and Elevate Who You Are and Why You Exist! Values, Vision, and Mission

Part 2 of our 4-part series on Strategic Planning in a Rapidly Changing Environment Co-authored by Galen Ellis and Selma Abinader (www.abinadergroup.com) Did you catch last month’s article on why we recommend the Strategic Framework planning over traditional Strategic Planning? In it we provided an overall summary of how the Strategic Framework provides more flexibility …