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Violetta delivers a deeply participatory approach, strengthened community capacity, leadership development and plans that lead
​to action.

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Violetta facilitates and promotes engagement using process oriented psychology and other conflict resolution methods. With a focus on participatory decision-making processes, she can help your community or organization find solutions that work so that you can make real change happen. 

Violetta’s approach is people-centered, empathetic, and innovative. She brings a deep knowledge of group dynamics and processes to her work, drawing on design thinking, change management theories, and the solutions lab approach to complex program-solving at a deep level. 

Some of the approaches that are the basic foundations of her work are:
  • Process Work
  • Leadership
  • Governance
  • Collaboration
  • Change Process
  • Community Engagement

Each consultation with Violetta begins with a conversation to help her understand your group's needs. Rather than apply any one template or approach, she works in collaboration with your group to design a process that will best meet your needs, drawing on her extensive experience in:

  • Process design and facilitation
  • Systems thinking
  • Participatory leadership methodologies and tools
    • Art of Hosting - community of practice
    • Liberating structures
    • Theory U
    • Developmental evaluation
    • Deliberative research
  • Policy and research analysis
  • Evaluative analysis
  • Training and coaching

Violetta has over 20 of experience in bringing design, innovation and collaborative tools into work with a variety of community groups, funders, government agencies, and private corporations.

If your project would benefit from expert skill or knowledge in a specific area, Violetta may recruit from her well cultivated network of skilled professionals.

Contact Violetta if you'd like to start a conversation on
how she could help your organization.


"Violetta has a deep knowledge of group dynamics and processes. Her approach to facilitating groups
allows for the discovery of new solutions and dramatically advances a group in their thinking and ability

to work together. For example, she helped facilitate a youth leadership camp I had organized. While at the

camp, one of the youth co-facilitators was hurt by an act of racism. With coaching and support from

Violetta, that facilitator worked on the spot to shift the agenda to discuss the impact of race and exclusion

with the whole group. By attending to what was important and emergent in an organized way, the group

had a breakthrough in the understanding of the impact of racism and the practice of inclusion. This

breakthrough shifted the agenda of the leadership camp, opening the group to rich ways to explore and

learn more deeply about how to work through difficult issues of exclusion and racism in a deep and

powerful way."
​-Director of Development, Stella’s Place
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