Strengthening Organizations
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 help your organization get back on track and moving forward together.
“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
If your people aren't pulling together, they’re pulling apart.
You’ve got to have your people pulling together.
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.
Grounded Resilience & G.R.O.W
“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.
