FACILITATING
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I facilitate public and private webinars and presentations for community groups, collaboratives, and organizations.
My approach as a facilitator is to offer a framework for the conversations that you would like to have and then guide you through that process.
The word “facilitate” comes from the Latin word facilis, for "easy." It means to make something easier or more likely to happen.
While the work of facilitation is not easy, my hope is to support you to make sharing, connections, dialogue, imagination, and moving towards action easier.
Keep scrolling for details about my public and private facilitation opportunities.
We live in a time of great upheaval AND also where great change is needed. How can we cultivate space individually and collectively for change through care, creativity, and collaboration?
Join me in an online public webinar or private customized presentation where we will explore:
How we can know ourselves and each other
How we can invite different perspectives/characteristics/gifts
How we can use agreements to support collective care and collaboration
How we can use creative and somatic practices to heal, imagine, and cultivate systems change
How we can differentiate between colonial and decolonial ways of being
Upcoming Public Webinar
Cultivating Space for Complex Conversations
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
12:00-1:30pm MT (90 minutes)
Online Webinar on Zoom
$35 CDN
This quick 90-minute webinar is an introduction to how we can personally prepare ourselves to have complex conversations in our family, community, and workplace.
In this webinar we will explore:
the connection we have with ourselves, our story, and our gifts
the practice of deep patience and listening for communication
the need for multiple skills, perspectives, and characteristics that contribute to complex conversations
Webinar Testimonials
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“This was an experience in the exploration of the theme and the self. It is the self inside of this theme that must make the first connections, before moving those understandings outwardly. I believe that realization was achieved in this webinar.”
Wakefield Brewster
Calgary Poet Laureate -
“The webinar allowed me to understand how I can better integrate community and the variety of perspectives within it. It also allowed me to make commitments to concrete anti- colonial actions moving forward in communities with the deepest care. Although I was worried about the length of the webinar, the pace, breaks, and activities made it go fast. I am glad I made room in my busy schedule for this webinar that makes me work better as a community artist.”
Rocio Graham
Artist and Community Activator -
“Geraldine made the complexity of the material easy to take in with diverse activities with which to better understand how to decolonize spaces. Definitely left me wanting more.”
Tamara Ross
Associate Director, Administration and Academic Operations at UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA
Past Riverstone PUBLIC Webinars
Customized Private Presentations
Available upon request.
Please contact for more information.
I am also available to prepare customized private presentations that can be offered on Zoom or as part of an in-person gathering.
Examples of potential customized presentations:
Cultivating Collective Care for Change-makers
Cultivating a Safe Space for Creativity
Cultivating an Understanding of Oneself as an Artist
Cultivating Collective Care and Change as a Leader
Cultivating Spaces of Care in Collaboration and Community Engagement
Cultivating Spaces of Care and Creativity in Meetings
Cultivating Spaces of Care for Brave Conversations
Cultivating an Understanding of Innovators
Past Customized/Private Presentations
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Locating Ourselves in Land Acknowledgements
Facilitator for in-person workshop for Hillhurst United Church (2025)
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Staff Retreat
Facilitator for Esker Foundation (2024)
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Care for oneself and community
Facilitator for the Santa Muerte Death Residency by Santa Rosa Arts and Healing (2023 and 2024)
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Connecting with ourselves, each other, and water to move us towards rest and creativity
Facilitator for the Agua Viva Water Residency by Santa Rosa Arts and Healing (2024)
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Connecting our art and body with land in community
Facilitator for the Blooming Earth Residency by Santa Rosa Arts and Healing (2024)
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Arts Management & Administration in Canada
Facilitator for Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (2024)
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Cultivating Collective Care in the Arts with a Decolonized Framework
Facilitator for online webinar for CARFAC Alberta (2024)
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Book launch on "Development of Soft Skills through Art"
Guest speaker for Lily Sigie (2024)
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Climate Reality Project: Storytelling + Arts
Mentor for the Climate Reality Project (2024)
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Cultivating Safe Spaces with Creativity
Presenter at the inaugural conference for Cultivating Safe Spaces (2023)