dialogue-led facilitation

ENGAGING, DEEP FACILITATION for companies and organizations

Are you looking for transformative, deep results in your company or organization?

Combining Deep Dialogue with an Integral Approach, and backed by years of experience and training, my facilitation process is designed to create spaces for powerful conversations to emerge. These conversations are the basis for deep transformation within companies and organizations.

SESSIONS AND OUTCOMES

CONNECTED: PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY & DEEP CONNECTION

An exhaustive study that Google conducted several years ago showed that psychological safety is the #1 driver of team productivity.

They found that teams with psychologically safe environments had employees who were less likely to leave, more likely to harness the power of diversity, and ultimately, who were more successful.

This 2- to 2 1/2-hour facilitated session is designed to foster deep connection among company/organization staff (and owners) and create a foundation of psychological safety and trust.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: The foundation of this session is a 20-minute presentation/journey through human connection: the role of connection in human wellbeing, our evolution as a connected species, the neuroscience of connection, how we can live more connected lives and create more connected neighbourhoods/workplaces/societies, etc.

Interspersed throughout the presentation are group exercises. These are not cheesy team-building exercises but rather exercises - backed by science and years of experience - designed for deep sharing and connection. Most of these exercises occur in small 2- to 5-person groups (either in person when/where feasible, or in breakout rooms on Zoom), but some of them occur in the larger full group.

The exercises have been designed to create profound and meaningful connection, and the presentation has been designed as a foundation on which to build psychological safety so that participants feel safe and ready to be more authentic and vulnerable during the exercises, which in turn creates the container for those deep connections to occur. And when that happens it can completely transform a workplace for the better.

You (the owners/leaders) will also received feedback and ideas from staff on how to keep the connection going long after the session has ended.

OUTCOME: Deeper connection and psychological safety among staff and a sense of community, connection and belonging at work.

Praise for CONNECTED

"An incredible closing session by Mike Brcic on day 5 of our remote virtual offsite w/ the global team"
"More than half of our staff have already said your session was their favourite of the week. Beautiful."

- Alex Osterwalder and Alan Smith, Strategyzer (authors of the Business Model Canvas used by millions of businesses worldwide, and many bestselling business books)

"Thank you for the absolutely awesome Connected sessions for our company today. WOW. Mind blown. We had 53 team members attend this morning and another 46 in the afternoon. My inbox is flooded with emails from our team already, who found it so powerful. We learned a lot about connection, we laughed, we cried together. We had brave and awesome souls share so safely and willingly in breakout rooms and to the entire crew. It was a session I'll never forget. Mike is a master, so genuine and generous. Simple excellent in every way. My company is an even better place today because of you."

-Tracey Ivanshyn, Uplevel Global

"I have been trying to find the words to express the gratitude for the gift you shared with our team. It was profound. Hearts were opened and each person felt safe (including myself) to connect in a deeper way than what normally happens. I was moved by how much you were able to do in such a short time and all over Zoom. It was evident in each person's eyes as we closed out our session, that something beautiful had happened. Thank you so much Mike for holding this space for each of us, for the process in how you engaged us and for this new beginning. Looking forward to continuing in more of this work. I and the Concentric Private Wealth team are very grateful. Our hearts are full."

-Katherine Langley Priola, Concentric Private Wealth

A FEW OF THE Companies We Have Worked With

In-Person

ONLINE

Sessions can be delivered in-person (if regulations allow and an experience can be delivered safely) or online. I have delivered many powerful online sessions since the onset of COVID-19 and they can be just as powerful as in-person sessions (in some cases they can be even more powerful because of the features of Zoom).

NOTE: as of November 2020, I am not yet ready or willing to facilitate in-person events unless they are delivered in an outdoor environment.

facilitation experience

I bring over 10 years of facilitation experience to my work, as well as a wealth of training.

• Completed Next Stage facilitation intensive with Ten Directions

• Completed Facilitation training with KaosPilots Business School

• Completed Facilitation certification via the renowned XChange approach

• As Dean of Social Enterprise at the Centre for Social Innovation, I lead dozens of workshops and trainings for social entrepreneurs across Toronto

• As Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Toronto Public Library, I led dozens of workshops and training sessions for entrepreneurs across the city

• As founder and Chief Explorer at Wayfinders, I lead transformative events in some of the most spectacular locations on Earth, facilitating conversations, activities and exercises that lead to powerful breakthroughs

Submit a request for facilitation

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