Strengthening Organizations
If your people aren't pulling together, they’re pulling apart.
You’ve got to have your people pulling together.
We help groups and organizations thrive!
We offer organizational strengthening work, drawing on deep training and experience in organizational development. We pay attention to where groups are stuck, and where the interpersonal dynamics have overwhelmed the work. We bring the qualities of authentic heart and wisdom to our work, and draw on a powerful track record of helping community groups, racial justice groups, and national organizations. We can help your group get unstuck. When tensions or conflicts are pulling you away from your work’s purpose, our blend of organizing skills with attunement to people and systems helps your organization get back on track and moving forward together. Book a consult with us to talk concretely about what you’re dealing with, and we’ll make a plan together to help your organization function more cohesively and skillfully.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”
Victor Frankl
"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far"
Daniel Goleman
Beyond financial analysis or strategic planning, CGA is uniquely focused on the crucial element of interpersonal workings of the organization. The CGA method and on-site work helps you clear up the areas of tension and conflict that have many organizations stuck. When things are tangled, we help you untangle it. The Grounded Resilience approach blends the smart instincts of organizing and the attunement to people and systems to get organizations back on track and moving forward together. We help you increase your impact, achieve more, work better, and get ahead.
You’re leading organizations and campaigns fighting for justice, equity, and systemic change—often under immense pressure, and now under assault on democracy, people, social justice, DEI, and on the non-profit service sector. Navigating complex challenges, managing interpersonal dynamics, and pursuing your organization’s mission in turbulent times can leave you stretched thin and uncertain. The current pressures of tight resources, political crises, and organizational dynamics can weigh heavily on you and your team, can lead to stress. Without the right skills, these stresses can lead to burnout, division, and stalled progress.
We tailor our work to your group’s needs. We help your team build the skills you need to face challenges head-on. Our Grounded Resilience training provides practical, learnable tools to manage stress, resolve conflict, and improve interpersonal dynamics, ensuring you can stay grounded and effective in your leadership and your team’s work. If your people aren’t pulling together, they’re pulling apart; you’ve got to have your people pulling together.
We are ready to work with your organization, with adaptable, flexible skills, from conflict resolution to training.
In these turbulent times, we need stronger, more connected organizations. Invest in your team’s resilience. We are ready to offer Grounded Resilience at a modest, negotiable cost, because we want to help embed these skills in the organizations we most need to see thrive right now.
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“There was a lot of opportunity for dialogue and talking scenarios and conflict through, very active learning.”
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“Getting to understand a person, what their needs are, their different parts. This integrates into my justice work.”
Book a consult with us now, email us now, to talk concretely about what you’re dealing with, and we’ll make a plan for how to make your organization more effective. If you’re ready to have your organization functioning more cohesively and skillfully, we are ready to help. Email GroundedResilience@gmail.com, or just fill out the form below and tell us what you're dealing with, and we'll make a plan.
BOOK A CONSULT WITH US if you're ready for the next level of
organizational evolution.
“We are stuck, even with goals and visions and strategies, we are stuck. This is the added layer that is needed. CGA could bring in the “whole” and ask and model: how do we center ourselves? How do we sustain organizations?”
DaLinda Fermin
Veteran Labor Organizer, Campaigner and currently the Director of a national labor union's Organizing Capacity Program
We are certified to deliver and facilitate:
The Organizational Mapping Tool (used by the Ford Foundation), The Leadership Agility 360.
