Facilitator and Group Process Consultant
Facilitation and Training Services
Are your board meetings poorly attended, boring, nonproductive? Could your group's communication skills and decision-making processes use a boost? Does your cohousing community need help processing a difficult, emotional, or contentious issue? Eris Weaver can help!Eris works with cohousing and other intentional communities, and nonprofit organizations to:
- Facilitate meetings on difficult or emotional issues
- Coach process teams on agenda planning and facilitation techniques
- Teach workshops on consensus and other collaborative decision-making techniques; communication skills; and conflict resolution.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Eris is available to travel to other parts of the country.
Current and past clients include:
- Pleasant Hill Cohousing
- North Oakland Cohousing
- Ukiah Valley Cohousing
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
- Founding member and facilitator for FrogSong, a cohousing community in Cotati, California
- Eris also works for Cohousing Partners, a cohousing development firm, providing training and facilitation coaching to their developing communities in California.
Testimonials
"To watch skilled facilitating is a real treat - The respect with which people were heard and treated was heart warming."
"Eris is excellent -- she is strong, funny, smart, and not afraid to call people on their b.s., if needed. She is intrepid. I don't think that conflict bothers her much, if at all."