GABRIELLE PIMSTONE
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Facilitated Intensive
Bespoke facilitation for groups at critical transition points. A contained space where groups can work through a significant dynamic without the distractions and pressures of day-to-day work pulling them back.
THE PROBLEM
In most groups, what surfaces as conflict, confusion, silo behaviour, or disengagement is rarely the real problem. It is often a symptom of something operating at a deeper level in the group's dynamics and culture. Change amplifies what is already there, so what was manageable becomes significantly harder to contain when the system is under pressure.
Most leaders know when something needs to shift. What stops them addressing it is proximity. When you are part of the system, you cannot see it clearly enough to work with it objectively, so the focus returns to tasks and goals.
Dynamics that go unaddressed in a group don't disappear. They surface repeatedly, consuming energy and momentum.
WHAT CHANGES
After participating in a Facilitated Intensive, groups leave having worked through something real, not just discussed it. The dynamics that were consuming energy get named, examined, and shifted. What follows is a group that can move forward with greater clarity, trust, cohesion, and the capacity to hold the tensions that come with significant change.
WHAT IT INVOLVES
A Facilitated Intensive provides the objectivity, the skills, and the space the group cannot create for itself. Examples include:
Leadership alignment - A leadership team where enterprise accountability takes second place to business unit priorities, and the organisation feels that lack of integration
Board and ELT facilitation - A board and executive whose relationship is creating friction rather than oversight
Cross team collaboration - Two teams that need to work together to deliver a shared outcome, but whose history, culture, or competing priorities are getting in the way
An intact team navigating change or one that has been newly formed and hasn't yet found its footing
A project team under pressure where the group dynamics are slowing delivery more that the technical challenges are
Restructuring - A team whose structure has changed and where people are still operating as if the old rules apply
All are grounded in Process Work, a depth facilitation methodology that attends to what is happening beneath the surface of a group and what the group needs to move forward.
Sessions run between one and three days, designed specifically for your group and what it is navigating.
WHAT YOU GET
A group that understands what has actually been driving the dynamics between them
Issues that were previously avoided are now named and worked through
The same problems stop showing up
A group that can hold real tension instead of retreating to tasks when things get hard
HOW IT CONNECTS
Facilitated Intensives work as a standalone engagement.
Where relevant, the Adaptive Health Check can be used beforehand to provide a diagnostic lens on the group's adaptive capacity - enriching the facilitation with evidence about what is specifically getting in the way.