FACILITATING

I facilitate and host community engagement, organizational conversations, and collaborative learning opportunities.

My approach as a host and facilitator is to offer a framework for the conversations that you would like to have and then guide you through that process.

The word “facilitate” comes from the Latin word facilis, for "easy." It means to make something easier or more likely to happen.

While the work of facilitation is not easy, my hope is to support you to make sharing, connections, dialogue, imagination, and moving towards action easier.

“My purpose as a facilitator is to cultivate curious and creative spaces of care for complex conversations in community.”

We live in a time of great upheaval AND also where great change is needed. How can we cultivate space individually and collectively for the conversations we need to have with care, creativity, and collaboration?

Let me guide you through facilitation frameworks, processes, and tools where we will explore:

  • How we can know ourselves and each other more meaningfully

  • How we can invite different perspectives/characteristics/gifts

  • How we can use agreements to support collective care and collaboration

  • How we can use creative and somatic practices to heal, imagine, and cultivate systems change

  • How we can differentiate between colonial and decolonial ways of being

Past Customized Presentations

  • Locating Ourselves in Land Acknowledgements

    Facilitator for in-person workshop for Hillhurst United Church (2025)

  • Staff Retreat

    Facilitator for Esker Foundation (2024)

  • Care for oneself and community

    Facilitator for the Santa Muerte Death Residency by Santa Rosa Arts and Healing (2023 and 2024)

  • Connecting with ourselves, each other, and water to move us towards rest and creativity

    Facilitator for the Agua Viva Water Residency by Santa Rosa Arts and Healing (2024)

  • Connecting our art and body with land in community

    Facilitator for the Blooming Earth Residency by Santa Rosa Arts and Healing (2024)

  • Arts Management & Administration in Canada

    Facilitator for Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (2024)

  • Cultivating Collective Care in the Arts with a Decolonized Framework

    Facilitator for online webinar for CARFAC Alberta (2024)

  • Book launch on "Development of Soft Skills through Art"

    Guest speaker for Lily Sigie (2024)

  • Climate Reality Project: Storytelling + Arts

    Mentor for the Climate Reality Project (2024)

  • Cultivating Safe Spaces with Creativity

    Facilitator at the inaugural conference for Cultivating Safe Spaces (2023)

Contact me to talk about your facilitation needs

Customized Presentations

Available upon request.
Please contact for more information.

I am available to prepare customized private presentations that can be offered on Zoom or as part of an in-person gathering.

Examples of potential customized presentations:

  • Cultivating Collective Care for Change-makers

  • Cultivating a Safe Space for Creativity

  • Cultivating an Understanding of Oneself as an Artist

  • Cultivating Collective Care and Change as a Leader

  • Cultivating Spaces of Care in Collaboration and Community Engagement

  • Cultivating Spaces of Care and Creativity in Meetings

  • Cultivating Spaces of Care for Brave Conversations

  • Cultivating an Understanding of Innovators

Past Riverstone PUBLIC Webinars

  • Cultivating Space for Change Webinar (Nov 5, 2024)

Webinar Testimonials

  • “This was an experience in the exploration of the theme and the self. It is the self inside of this theme that must make the first connections, before moving those understandings outwardly. I believe that realization was achieved in this webinar.”

    Wakefield Brewster
    Calgary Poet Laureate

  • “The webinar allowed me to understand how I can better integrate community and the variety of perspectives within it. It also allowed me to make commitments to concrete anti- colonial actions moving forward in communities with the deepest care. Although I was worried about the length of the webinar, the pace, breaks, and activities made it go fast. I am glad I made room in my busy schedule for this webinar that makes me work better as a community artist.”

    Rocio Graham
    Artist and Community Activator

  • “Geraldine made the complexity of the material easy to take in with diverse activities with which to better understand how to decolonize spaces. Definitely left me wanting more.”

    Tamara Ross
    Associate Director, Administration and Academic Operations at UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA