Phronesis Network

We specialize in conflict management, problem solving, and transformative listening. Using practices such as small group conversations, listening sessions, and larger format workshops, we emphasize meaningful engagement for all invested parties. As methods like Stanford's Collective Impact Model and deliberative dialogue have demonstrated, multi-stakeholder processes create more resilient solutions to complex problems. Our approach is necessarily tailored for the unique elements and contexts of each institution--whether a church, a city, or a college campus. Some of our common actions: 1. We demystify complex problem solving by helping people to speak and listen well together. 2. We emphasize things held valuable and shared goals instead of positions and problems. 3. We cultivate institutional community through healthy conversation and careful listening. 4. We equip leaders to continue our processes without us, fortifying existing institutional resources as new problems emerge. Our services include: issue analysis and framing; stakeholder recruitment and connection; large and small group facilitation; project management; diversity, equity, and inclusion planning; specialized advisory consulting; workshops; data and reporting.