The meeting methodologies used by Genuine Contact professionals have proven track records for creating effective participative environments. They are versatile enough to enable the satisfactory achievement of your goals, however diverse, or specific. They create the conditions for your organization to benefit from the individual and collective wisdom of your people and demonstrate that when collective wisdom is harnessed, ‘the whole is noticeably greater than the sum of the parts’.

The primary methodologies we use for meeting facilitation are:

Open Space Technology (the most open of the participative methodologies)

Whole Person Process Facilitation (an open but more guided approach), and

Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution (when situations of conflict need to be resolved before the organization can move forward).

Our aim is to assist our clients achieve their goals by creating meetings that tap into the individual and collective genius of the participants and to access both intuitive and intellectual knowledge. Our belief and experience is that the wisdom to find the solutions that are needed are always present in the group. We facilitate successful, highly participative meetings that range in size from a few people to hundreds of people, and very in length from a few hours to several days.

If your situation calls for it, we are able to facilitate simultaneous meetings in a number of different geographic locations, or deliver a highly effective solution for bridging geographic distances using Open Space-Online® software for facilitating Open Space Technology meetings online.

In many situations, a blended approach best serves the needs of the client, using a combination of Whole Person Process facilitated meetings and Open Space Technology meetings. Both are congruent in approach so they work well in tandem. Often a Whole Person Process Facilitated meeting precedes the Open Space Technology meeting to prepare for the Open Space Technology meeting. As well, often a Whole Person Process Facilitated meeting follows the Open Space Technology meeting to assist in implementation. We also use two additional highly participative meeting methodologies as part of a blended approach to meet client needs including the use of Appreciative Inquiry and the World Cafe.

An additional component of our blended approach when face to face meetings are not possible, is the use of a highly participative on line meeting methodology that replicates the Open Space Technology meeting as closely as possible.

We also offer trainings for your in-house representatives in the facilitation of Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, and Conflict Resolution.

Our meetings have a proven track record for success in:

* strategic planning including implementation plans

* visioning, including identification of key strategic directions

* development of business ethics including implementation plans

* development of strategies and implementation plans for successful communication, excellent staff morale,high level quality of work life, excellent patient/client/customer service, improved labor/management relations, successful curriculum design, successful work process redesign

* addressing issues of gender and diversity

* finding solutions to violence and conflict in the workplace