Facilitating Decision-Making Across Differences
Bring your team to clarity even when perspectives diverge. Grounded in IISC’s flagship Facilitative Leadership™ approach.
Decisions are harder when identities, power, and perspectives intersect. This workshop introduces facilitative tools and structures that help groups make thoughtful, equitable decisions – even when navigating tension or disagreement. Learn how to create the conditions for shared understanding, lift up unheard voices, and guide teams toward choices they can stand behind.
You’ll learn how to:
- Clarify who should be involved and why
- Make power visible and disrupt inequitable patterns
- Use structures that support inclusive decision-making
- Move from conflicting viewpoints to a collective direction
A must-attend for leaders committed to equity, collaboration, and real accountability.
Pricing
- $50/person (Grassroots)
- $100/person (Nonprofit)
- $150/person (Foundation)
- $200/person (For-Profit/Social Venture)
Your Facilitators
Cynthia Silva Parker (she/her) is a seasoned capacity builder with more than three decades of experience strengthening organizations and equipping leaders who pursue social justice and racial equity. She finds great joy in the ah-ha moments when people learn a new skill or connect their lived experiences to new ideas. She loves guiding groups to deeper understanding and solid agreements about things that matter. And it’s a great day when she can connect good people to one another and to resources to support their work.
Cynthia has served as a senior associate at the Interaction Institute for Social Change since 1998, delivering facilitation, training, consulting, and coaching services in the nonprofit, public, and philanthropic sectors. She also has led or co-led the development of several IISC workshops, including Advancing Racial Justice in Organizations, the Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work and Collaborative Social Change.
Cynthia is the mother of three young adult sons, who bring her joy. Cynthia holds a BA from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges and Master of Public Policy/City and Regional Planning from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Read more.
Erika Strong (they/them) is passionately committed to helping groups and organizations imagine and design internal systems and strategies that achieve measurable impact while building sustainable, supportive, and equitable work environments for their teams. Using a systems-based approach rooted in 15 years of experience working in community-based research and program planning, they envision and implement blueprints and strategies for equitable and effective organizational design and management grounded in the realities of community inequities including white supremacy and patriarchy.
As a national anti-racist trainer, facilitator, and organizer, Erika’s past experiences have included work in civic technology managing organizational growth, team cohesion, and systems-based strategy as well as development work in campaign-led non-profits and program management in hunger action and restorative justice.
Erika is also a culinary artist, musician, and an enrolled member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. They hold a M.P.H. in community-oriented public health practice from the University of Washington School of Public Health and a B.A. in anthropology and a B.S. in public health from the University of Washington, Seattle. Read more.
Date & Time
Thursday, October 1, 2026, from 3 – 5 pm ET