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work better.

Working together can be
 powerful and beautiful. It can be tricky to get there. We know how that works.

Working together is powerful. It can be tricky to get there. We know how that works.

You:

Make life better.

You dream of a future in which everyone is able to enjoy humanity’s natural states of creation, learning, play, rest, and communing with the sacred.

And:

It isn't simple, or easy.

Planning and resourcing is frustrated and foiled by complexity and global crises.

Interpersonal friction arises from ways we have learned to work together: structures and mindsets that hold us back.

We:

Know about this.

Learning new ways, together, is vital. The natural inclination to collaborate, and the ability to create more together than we can apart, is a beautiful thing. It can be tricky to get there. This is our specialty.

We specialize in four PATHS to making work feel better: connection, collaboration, conflict, and clarity.

We work with individuals and groups through a variety of APPROACHES: coaching, facilitation, training and other organizational development approaches.

We bring three key LENSES to all of the work: systems, equity, and embodiment.

Explore any of these paths, approaches or lenses below.

COLLABORATION

  • surface root causes limiting your collaboration
  • explore supportive tools and processes, structural encouragements
  • build shared understanding of purpose
  • create clarity around roles and responsibilities, decision-making structures
  • understand power
 
 

CONFLICT

• build skills to disagree better
• understand generative conflict
• heal interventions in crisis
 

CONNECTION

• building relationships
• celebrating, enjoying, relaxing, and finding your natural flow
• learning and growing
 

CLARITY

• learn open and authentic communication
• see the impacts of your structures, roles and practices
• understand who you are in dialogue with
• design adaptive planning mechanisms that account for complexity
 

SYSTEMS

Many of our goals are influenced by factors outside our control. Many of these are systemic (multiple interconnected parts), and we can have greater impact once we’re aware of them.
 

Equity

Integrating an analysis of power, challenging the ways that normative work processes and cultures reinforce social inequities.
 

Embodiment

People are not simply “thinking” beings. There is much more than our cognitive selves driving choices and reactions. Big Waves knows how to support people to not get stuck in their heads.
 

COACHING

a wide range of methods address limiting beliefs and patterns, to be able to recognize and build on your inner leadership capacities.
 

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Big Waves can bring a wide variety of organizational development tools and approaches to our work with you, in addition to the coaching, training, and facilitation approaches introduced on this page. Explore your processes, roles, structures, and practices with us, to learn more clearly how things are working and identify opportunities for improvement. 
 

FACILITATION

A group process or facilitated meeting can help to improve relationships in a team or workplace. Gather and learn from the wisdom and experience of everyone working on or impacted by a particular issue or initiative. Develop the skills to collaborate across differences and expand your capacity to have greater impact than you can on your own.
 

TRAINING

All Big Waves’ training is designed from educational better practices, in a range of formats from self-paced to public and private cohort, on topics including: building democratic group processes, creating healthy feedback culture, understanding power, basic conflict resolution, creating inclusive workplaces, working with different personalities and conflicting styles, and how to be an emotionally aware team.
 
YOU ARE HERE...

YOU ARE HERE:

Is your work lacking inspiration or clarity?

Maybe collaboration is feeling a bit clunky?

Or, more concerning, is the organization experiencing turnover, burnout, or conflict?

... WORKING BETTER

WORKING BETTER

Realizing your vision, 

in ways that feel

enjoyable…     creative…     impactful…     healthy…

COLLABORATION

• competition and silos
• unclear roles
• poor decisions
• meetings where nothing gets done
 

CONFLICT.

• complaints
• turnover
• toxicity
• low psychological safety
 

CONNECTION

• feeling alone
• lack of trust
• silos, lack of communication
• loss of direction
 

CLARITY

• miscommunication and confusion
• lack of transparency
• information through back channels
• dreading feedback
 

SYSTEMS

Many of our goals are influenced by factors outside our control. Many of these are systemic (multiple interconnected parts), and we can have greater impact once we’re aware of them.
 

Equity

Integrating an analysis of power, challenging the ways that normative work processes and cultures reinforce social inequities.
 

Embodiment

People are not simply “thinking” beings. There is much more than our cognitive selves driving choices and reactions. Big Waves knows how to support people to not get stuck in their heads.
 

COACHING

a wide range of methods address limiting beliefs and patterns, to be able to recognize and build on your inner leadership capacities.
 

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

In addition to formal processes like coaching, facilitation and training, we may also (or only) work together in a consultative relationship, applying collaborative consideration to your contexts. Big Waves can bring new and different approaches to analysing confusing conditions in relationships or workflows, or simply support a refresh of perspectives and energies.
 

FACILITATION

A group process or facilitated meeting can help to improve relationships in a team or workplace. Gather and learn from the wisdom and experience of everyone working on or impacted by a particular issue or initiative. Develop the skills to collaborate across differences and expand your capacity to have greater impact than you can on your own.
 

TRAINING

All Big Waves’ training is designed from educational better practices, in a range of formats from self-paced to public and private cohort, on topics including: building democratic group processes, creating healthy feedback culture, understanding power, basic conflict resolution, creating inclusive workplaces, working with different personalities and conflicting styles, and how to be an emotionally aware team.
 
YOU ARE HERE...

YOU ARE HERE:

Is your work lacking inspiration or clarity?

Maybe collaboration is feeling a bit clunky?

Or, more concerning, is the organization experiencing turnover, burnout, or conflict?

... WORKING BETTER

WORKING BETTER

Realizing your vision, 

in ways that feel

enjoyable…     creative…     impactful…     healthy…

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