Meeting Facilitation Services
Kathleen Oweegon facilitating a session Meetings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on how they are designed and how they are facilitated. Many wise leaders recognize that the best way to have peaceful, productive meetings that meet their objectives is to hire a professional meeting facilitator. Kathleen Oweegon has many years of experience designing and facilitating successful, productive meetings for 5 to 300 participants. Her training and experience as a professional mediator make her the ideal facilitator for meetings where tension, controversy, or conflict are anticipated. Whether you need a staff or Board retreat, a planning meeting, or a meeting about how best to use limited resources, Kathleen can help your meetings run smoothly and efficiently to achieve your goals and best meet the needs of all stakeholders.
Meeting facilitation services can include any or all of the following:
  • Pre-facilitation
    • Intake:
      • Identify the issues
      • Identify the stakeholders
      • Elicit pre-meeting input from participants (where applicable)
    • Design meeting/create agenda
    • Schedule the facilitation
    • Secure a neutral venue
  • Facilitation
    • Provide sign-in sheets to track meeting attendance
    • Provide nametags/placards for attendees
    • Set the tone/establish guidelines
    • Introduce presenters
    • Moderate participants:
      • Maintain collaborative tone
      • Ensure no one dominates and all participants are comfortable contributing
      • Monitor speaking time of participants
    • Keep meeting focused and on task
    • Inspire brainstorming
    • Organize ideas
    • Engage participants to achieve meeting goals through a variety of approaches. (Energizers and activities will be pertinent and forward-focused.)
    • Scribe notes on flip-chart
    • Track and summarize meeting progress
    • Negotiate agreements (where applicable)
    • Initiate and record action plan (as needed)
    • Provide meeting feedback forms
  • Post-facilitation
    • Write and disseminate summary report (includes list of attendees)
    • Collate and report on meeting feedback forms
    • Follow-up on action plan (as needed)
Facilitation clients include:
  • Albuquerque Public Schools
  • Children First
  • City of Albuquerque - Land Use
  • Community Against Violence
  • Community Dialogue Network
  • Department of Health
  • Los Alamos Public Schools
  • New Mexico Department of Peace Initiative
  • New Mexico First Town Halls
  • Roswell Public Schools
  • Santa Fe Community Action Network
  • State of NM Regulation and Licensing Department
(partial list - references available upon request)

Facilitation Training is also available. Click here to learn more.