Common Thread’s 1st Anniversary Falling in Love with Evaluation Why is Facilitation Important?
Common Thread’s 1st Anniversary As I began the journey of Common Thread on February 2nd 2010 I could not have foreseen the wonderful and exciting year ahead. Not only have I had the chance to work with great clients working towards fantastic positive community change, but I have also had the chance to build relationships and explore my community. [...]
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Falling in Love with Evaluation Although evaluation is often viewed with trepidation, it can also be an opportunity to grow as an organization. Common Thread brings passion and creativity to a process that is often dry and painful.
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Why is Facilitation Important? Facilitation can be that instant shift in thinking that can solve a previously insurmountable issue; it can create consensus between opposing viewpoints and can allow you to quantify your vision in ways that may have previously seemed impossible. By utilizing facilitation techniques, we develop a concrete plan in collaboration with all stakeholders specifically to the [...]
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Common Thread’s energetic and passionate team wants to work with you to implement positive change within your organization. Through the use of
participatory facilitation techniques and community-based research we hope to help your organization or your initiative increase its community impact
and work for transformative change.
Through facilitation, as well as creative implementation of the evaluative process, Common Thread Consulting provides unique insight and, utilizing strategic planning methods, allows a group or organization to unlock the potential for positive change.
We look forward to hearing about the work that you do and seeing how we can help.

Community psychology used to build efficient networks for social change

Waterloo Chronicle
Feb 2 |15:18
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By CHARLOTTE PRONG PARKHILL, Chronicle Staff Natalie Brown’s business is finding out who is throwing babies into the river. It’s an analogy she learned from one of her professors in the Wilfrid Laurier community psychology program, and the recent graduate uses it to describe her consulting firm, Common Thread Consulting. “Imagine a river with all these [...]

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