Welcome.

I deeply value the work you did to bring us together as a group, including your opening check-ins and your check-outs. In particular, the care and compassion you showed to us as humans helped us to develop trust in you and amongst our group very rapidly. Your regular work to check consensus, to listen to our feedback, and to be inclusive to all group members contributed to building this trust and our ability to collaborate throughout our process. I also so appreciated your ability to ask insightful questions that helped us clarify, probe, or consider issues or problems where we were stuck or circling something! In general, I had complete trust in your ability to lead us through this complex and complicated process. Thank you, thank you!

Trina – a very sincere note of thank you. I am astounded by how well that went, whether success is measured by depth and innovation in thinking; a collective vision and stronger sense of team; cohesion of the day and team energy— wow! You are a phenomenal facilitator and I will strongly recommend you for future gatherings, and to colleagues.

You gave us the space to love each other.

I often find myself avoiding thinking about things that scare me and allowing outlier opinions throw me off centre. Trina’s coaching helped me gain a sense of perspective on some of the most immediate pressing issues I’m facing and helped remove some of the fears I have by providing some much appreciated clarity of thought.

The session … revealed a common sense of underlying purpose for the organization. There were times where I appreciated Trina stepping in to set boundaries on how people responded to comments.

Trina delivered the session by demonstrating the tools and delivering content through the process. She was forthright and held the room in such a way that the participants could own the process rather than having the facilitator or the process owning the participants. I have been involved in facilitation practice for many years and this was just the inspiration and practice that I needed. Please bring Trina back again next year!

The board and I truly appreciated the work that you did on our strategic plan. If you are ok with this, I would like to forward your information to the CFC [Community Foundations of Canada] people as a resource person who would be available to assist community foundations. You did a great job for us and we will move forward with great clarity about our future.

Your understanding of the ebb and flow of the energy and conversation was extremely good- it made our session very productive.

I appreciated Trina’s human and reflective coaching manner and her help in breaking down big ideas into smaller starter actions and encouragement to experiment.

Trina brings the right tone of patience and compassion for our group. 

She brought history and texture, where our diverse group comes from and where we need to go. She made our interaction a comfortable place. She allowed us to have a voice where some of us were shy because of our newness.