Facilitating a Rehearsal for Life
RfLC centers community building as a core process for organizational growth and change. We work between leadership and stakeholders to elevate individual and collective agency, helping participants articulate the stories of how their communities hope to function. Every engagement is carefully tailored, but our work primarily takes shape through facilitation, training, and coaching.
What We Offer
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Facilitation
RfLC works with organizations across sectors to facilitate gatherings ranging from intimate meetings to large public events. Together with our clients, we co-create experiences that build trust, spark creativity, invite collaboration, and cultivate deep listening. Creative work asks much of us, but we answer with joy, embodied practice, wellness, and experiential learning woven into each gathering.
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Training
Our professional development workshops invite participants from all types of organizations to practice core facilitation skills, engage difficult dialogues, and learn the art of group care. We train people in arts-based community engagement techniques and model a range of facilitation approaches and methodologies. We also offer trainings grounded in OUR TEAM’s diverse areas of subject-matter expertise.
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Coaching and Consulting
We support clients in collective visioning, process design, and developing actionable solutions to their institutional or programmatic challenges. Progress depends on cultivating imaginative habits—regularly expanding our collective sense of possibility and stepping toward it together.
“Like climate change or the rise of AI, our civic problems grow exponentially larger, even as our responses often remain incremental. Bridging that distance asks us to practice courageous imagination—to widen what we believe is possible and pursue it together.”
What is Possible?
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Professional development for educators
Curriculum development
Liberatory education models
STEAM, project-based and integrated learning,
Environmental sustainability & justice initiatives
Health and wellness in the workplace
Community schools
Elder engagement and care
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Grassroots community engagement
Intergenerational leadership
Contemplative arts
Cultural organizing
Participatory arts practices
Restorative justice
Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
Critical Response Process (CRP)
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Facing the challenges of AI
Re-imagined schools
Mental and behavorial health
Public health
Higher education reform
Community engaged scholarship
Community-based learning
Cross sector collaboration
Community investing
“ I found the workshop to be deeply moving and profoundly important. I want Ed [a disabled staff member] to have the equivalent of that experience every day. And all of us need it as well. And there is no other way to have it except in community, collaboration, mutual affection and respect. In producing this workshop for Goucher and getting various constituencies involved, you have brought energy, credibility and integrity to the college's attempt to work on projects in partnership.”
— Dr. Richard Pringle, Relational Psychology — Goucher College