Building strong, resilient, and effective organizations for change
Guiding Threads Collective is a worker-owned cooperative that nurtures an ecosystem of organizations ready to contribute powerfully to the movement for justice.
From nonprofits to worker-owned cooperatives to funders to grassroots groups, we’ve supported organizations across our movement become effective vehicles of social and economic change.
What We Do
Guiding Threads Collective cross-pollinates the best techniques and practices from across our ecosystem to provide skilled and tailored organizational consulting, facilitation, and conflict mediation services to organizations.
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We design organizational practices and structures for groups seeking to strengthen their culture and bring their internal operations in line with their values. With you, we co-create and implement creative and inclusive policies and practices around key areas of organizational culture, including decision-making, feedback, conflict, governance, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) work. Learn more about our organizational development offerings here.
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Through coaching, we offer values-aligned thought partnership, supportive space for reflection and deeper understanding of self, and practical advice and tools to support our movement leaders. Learn more about our coaching offerings here.
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Through our organizational consulting and facilitation work, we help your group clarify its purpose, sharpen strategy, and chart a path forward. We facilitate strategic planning, visioning, and Theory of Change processes to support organizations in identifying their place in a larger ecosystem, building authentic relationships, and creating tangible change through their work. Learn more about our organizational development offerings here.
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We design and hold processes to support groups in conflict to identify the root causes of hurt and mistrust, build shared understanding of differing perspectives, and find a path forward after rupture. Learn more about our mediation offerings here.
We also create trainings that support groups in approaching conflict with curiosity and rigor, building collective resilience, and learning new tools for disagreeing well with one another. Learn more about our workshops here.
OUR MOST REQUESTED SERVICES
Tailored Organizational Development Services
Organization-specific consulting, group process design, and facilitation of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) work, internal structure design, strategic planning processes, and more.
Skills-Based Workshops and Trainings
Skill-building workshops around key organizational development areas, including feedback, conflict, management, and leadership. Public trainings for individuals and organizational trainings for groups seeking tailored curriculum to their specific needs and context.
Mediation and Conflict-Tending
Mediation and conflict exploration processes to support groups to approach conflict with curiosity and rigor, identify the root causes of hurt and mistrust, and find pathways forward.
Our Impact
We have long-lasting impact on the organizations and sectors with which we work. Here are the biggest impacts our work has made on the organizations we’ve partnered with:
Stronger workplace culture
Deeper trust, relationship building and transformation within teams
Equitable and effective organizational policies and practices
Increased organizational impact
“Working with Guiding Threads Collective was a dream come true. I so appreciated their depth of skill and attention to both the energy and dynamics of our group and the vision for our work together. Being facilitated by them felt like I could show up fully, share fully, and be held fully. Our multiracial group was exquisitely supported to navigate uncomfortable conversations with thoroughness and care!”
- chalchi kardós
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, QUEER FARMERS NETWORK
Curious if we might be a good fit?
Share a little more about what you are looking for, and we will reach out to schedule a free 45-minute consultation with one of our facilitators.
Support our work
Guiding Threads Collective offers facilitation services to organizations committed to social and economic justice, accompanies group formations in seasons of turmoil and conflict, and weaves our ecosystem together through skill-building and shared frameworks. Your one-time or recurring gift helps us support organizations at the lowest end of our sliding scale, and contributes to a robust and thriving ecosystem.
Please note that we are not a 501(c)3 entity, so donations are not tax-deductible.
