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Facilitation Services  

Emerging Directions Consulting Ltd. provides skilled facilitators who work productively with small or large group processes in a variety of governmental or
non-profit settings.

The types of facilitation services offered by Emerging Directions Consulting Ltd. include:

• Planning retreats
• Focus groups
  — board, community, staff, and clients
• Special meetings
  — annual general meetings, public forums, community and town hall meetings
• Partnership formation and strategic alliances
• Future search conferences

The benefits of these facilitation services include:

• Respect for individual and group perspectives
• Culturally sensitive, gender-balanced processes
• Identification of actual issues, not merely symptoms
• Creative, challenging processes
• Clearly written, useful reports

Specific projects and client organizations that have utilized Emerging Directions Consulting Ltd.’s facilitation services include:

• Culture Steps Forward
  — table group facilitators working on behalf of Herzog Associates Inc.
• Committee Consultation Session
  — Language Assessment and Referral Centre Committee (LARCC)
• Cross Cancer Institute                                                                -Volunteer Services
• Edmonton Evergreen FCSS and Child and Family Services Authority Region Six Community Partnership Enhancement Fund Working Committee
• Edmonton Epilepsy Association
• Edmonton Head Start Agencies
• Grant MacEwan College                                                                          - Rehabilitation Practitioner Advisory Committee
• National Roundtable on Learning
  — small group facilitators working on behalf of the Canadian Policy Research    Network
• Skills Investment Strategy Consultation
  — Alberta Human Resources and Employment
• Spring 2000 Consultation                                                                -Muttart Foundation
• Symposium 2000. Does Philanthropy Have A Future?                             -Canadian Centre for Philanthropy
• Town Hall Meeting
  — Edmonton Transit Service Advisory Board