Spring Collaboration

Reimagining how we work together

Two programs to support you in navigating the collaborative challenges of this moment with clarity, confidence, and creativity.

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Refresh and inspire your work with others

To create meaningful change, we need to examine how we work together.

We are in a time of deep division, disruption and pain, as well as new openings, creativity and emergence. Strengthening our ability to act collectively in meaningful ways is vital to advancing social and climate justice.

To do this, we need more people with the presence, awareness, and skills to listen deeply, nurture meaningful connections, navigate conflict in resourceful ways, and stay grounded and open-hearted in the midst of complexity.

Spring has developed two distinct, practical offers to support changemakers.

High Impact Meetings
The Transformative Facilitator

Whether you work as a part of a team or regularly lead group processes, these programs will support you to play a more transformative role in your collaborative work for change.

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High Impact Meetings

(Virtual)

Core capacities for meaningful collaboration

For teams and individuals looking to get practical about how to revitalize their meetings and make their collaborative work more engaging and impactful.

This is for you if you are:

looking for creative and practical approaches to designing and leading meetings
noticing "stuckness" or unhelpful patterns in yourself and your team
curious about your own role in shaping team dynamics
ready for new insight into building alignment and working with disagreement

Program Overview

Virtual Intensive (3 half-days)
Virtual integration session
Online lab for self-directed learning

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The Transformative Facilitator

(In-person)

Dynamic facilitation for complex times

For experienced and emerging facilitators looking to bring more complexity, intentionality, and depth to their facilitation practice.

This is for you if you:

have experience leading or guiding groups (as a facilitator, leader, trainer, or coach)
want a deep-dive into facilitation practices and capacities
are ready to stretch beyond your habitual ways, and embody new capacities
want to strengthen your ability to work with tension, strong emotions, and multiple perspectives

Program Overview

Virtual launch session
In-person Intensive (3 days)
Virtual accompaniment (3 sessions)
Optional 1:1 coaching
Online lab for self-directed learning

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What makes us different?

We’ve been there.

Our programs are designed and delivered by facilitators with deep roots in social and climate justice work. We know the beauty and challenge of collective work for change, and we have experience navigating different organizing structures and dynamics.

You’ll learn with others.

We know how valuable it is to connect with people who are asking similar questions or facing related challenges. Throughout the program you’ll have opportunities to exchange with a cohort of people who are equally passionate and committed to social and climate justice.

We’ll support you to develop new capacities and practices.

Transforming how we collaborate requires adding new frameworks to our toolkit and embodying new ways of being. We have infused our programs with both approaches, so that you’ll gain fresh ideas for what to do and find support in shifting how you do it.

You’ll enjoy a dynamic learning environment.

Our programs are highly participatory with a fun and dynamic mix of content exploration, cross-learning, practice exercises, content exploration, and reflection.

Why reimagine?

We know we need to change how we live and work together.

So many of us are feeling the heavy weight of organizing structures and ways of being that are failing us. Yet, across our communities and ecosystems, there are inspiring examples of how to embody more generative relationships.

But too many efforts for change are getting stuck or losing momentum.

People across sectors, organizations and movements are experiencing burnout and disillusionment. The gravity of the challenges we face are straining collaborative relationships and raising the stakes for how we work together.

We need more people with the capacity to navigate this moment.

Strengthening our ability to listen deeply, to work through disagreement, and to find creative ways forward together are vital skills in helping to usher our teams, our organizations, and ourselves through the process of change.

Spring’s Collaboration programs are a place to explore and practice.

Bring your curiosity, your questions, your challenges, and your wisdom. Our world needs us, and we need each other, so let’s learn together.

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Collaboration journeys

Want to understand how our Collaboration programs work in practice? Check out what our clients and partners have to say. You can find more details on Spring’s impact here .

Fostering Human Connection and Systems Change

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Slowing Down for Greater Impact

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Ignited: Karen Janssens on slowing down, listening, and being present.

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Testimonials

After participating in this program, I realized I can embrace facilitation as a critical ability to support everything I do. It's not just about organizing or hosting meetings. It's about expanding our capacity to see, listen and sense people, both individually and collectively, and have clarity about shared goals, tensions, polarities, being able to hold the space for what emerges with awareness and flexibility.

This is an important training that brings the soul into facilitation, and we can all agree more soul is always welcome. Amazing.

This training will be instrumental to my daily work and facilitation roles, I learnt a lot about the topic and, through this, also about myself. What was especially positive is how we could try to put the learning into practice immediately and how knowledgeable and approachable/relatable each of the facilitators were.

I feel now like I can practice letting go of imperfection and carry a spirit of trying things on. I am still just as scared/nervous about stepping into this facilitator self, but in connecting with this group, I feel like I owe it to myself to do it anyway.

I feel good and calmer. I felt a shift in my nervous system altogether and trust that I am on the right path, not just because of the session, but also having met incredible people that share my path as well.

I feel really energized and a lot more equipped to facilitate now. I just feel a lot more secure in the facilitation knowledge and muscles I already have and use comfortably, and a much more clear understanding of areas I need to work on and tangible methods and activities to put those skills into practice.