FACILITATION

Offerings:

Your organization runs meetings all the time, but sometimes it’s important for everyone, especially the leader, to be able to engage as a participant.
Let Bloom handle the facilitation and maximize the voice and engagement of everyone in the room.
Virtual meetings are becoming the norm, which can require an extra level of meeting “production” to ensure equity of access and engagement.
Bloom has experience facilitating across a variety of online platforms in both a meeting or webinar format.
Organizing a day-long or multi-day meeting or retreat takes careful planning to ensure participants are prepared and time is used efficiently.
With Bloom’s extensive range of activities and engagement strategies, you can create a dynamic experience that meets your goals and leaves participants feeling inspired and excited for what’s next.
Bloom staff are based in Philadelphia, but we love to travel. We’ve facilitated as far away as Hawaii and our passports are current so we’re just a plane or a train ride away from wherever you need us to be.
For a truly memorable meeting experience, consider adding a graphic recorder to co-facilitate with Bloom. Graphic recording visually brings your discussion to life, capturing key ideas in a dynamic, shareable format. You'll walk away with a powerful visual summary and a conceptual model of your work—one you’ll want to showcase and refer back to.
Please note that graphic recording is an additional service beyond Bloom’s core offerings.

“Bloom did their homework and then some in preparing for the workshop. In addition, they were skilled facilitators who engaged every group member. Our team walked away with much more than I think that anyone expected. The folks at Bloom are simply excellent at what they do.”

-Head of School, Delaware Valley Friends School

Let’s talk! Tell us about your needs and Bloom can advise on the best approach to fit your organization, your timeline, and your budget.

Facilitation Project Examples

Client names have been withheld to respect confidentiality, but client references are always available upon request.

“[Our facilitator was] a strategic and insightful thinker who was able to move us from ideas to action. She was also really easy to work with and able to understand the cultural context of how we operate.”

-Executive Director, The African Family Health Organization

Annual Planning Workshop

District School

Bloom partnered with school leadership at a K-8 elementary school in Philadelphia to facilitate a series of visioning and planning meetings over school’s summer break. To inform session design, Bloom conducted a preliminary interview with the principal and collected data via a pre-meeting participant survey.

For the first four-hour session, Bloom engaged a graphic recorder to co-facilitate and capture outputs from a visioning session with the principal and a small group of faculty.

At the second four-hour session the next day, Bloom led the principal and a group of community partners through a planning session, identifying key strategic focus areas and setting goals for coming school year.

Leadership Planning Meeting

Local Nonprofit

A community-based organization providing health, human and educational services to immigrants and refugees in the greater Philadelphia area engaged Bloom to assist in the preparation, facilitation, and analysis of their annual planning meeting.

Over a four week period, Bloom worked with the organization’s leadership to micro-analyze team SWOT and big picture organizational data for the focused design of meeting content. This culminated in one leadership planning meeting and one all-staff leadership meeting, both facilitated by Bloom. Following the meetings, a summary, analysis, and recommendations were provided to leadership.

Leadership & Board Retreat

Independent School

Bloom partnered with school leadership for an extensive pre-service training workshop for non-teaching staff in supervisory roles to establish a common vision and community of practice for future system-building and professional development. Bloom conducted a needs assessment in advance of the session and developed and led a full-day facilitated workshop to support the team in accomplishing its change management goals for supervision.

Six months later, Bloom was asked to design and facilitate a two-day board retreat. Bloom’s involvement included a board survey and analysis, drafting a vision for impact, and preliminary planning around potential future initiatives for the school.