Custom Facilitated Events: Appreciative Workplace
Custom facilitated events help to strengthen workplace practice, shared understanding, and the conditions that help people and performance grow together.
At a Glance
Organizations, leadership teams, managers, HR professionals, and groups seeking a thoughtfully designed workshop, retreat, convening, or conference experience.
FOR
Virtual, in-person, or hybrid facilitated events, tailored to your goals and context. Formats may include leadership retreats, team convenings, learning workshops, strategic planning sessions, or sector-wide conferences.
FORMAT
Half-day, full-day, multi-day, or multi-session engagements. Timing depends on the purpose, audience, and level of design needed.
TYPICAL TIMING
Organizations introducing or deepening an Appreciative Workplace approach in areas such as welcoming and growing talent, strengths-based performance, thriving teams, leadership at all levels, and becoming a learning organization.
BEST FOR
Assessment; dynamic, experiential design, masterful facilitation, seamless production, customized agenda, and a summary of key themes, insights, and next-step recommendations.
INCLUDES
When This Is a Fit
This engagement is especially useful when your organization is experiencing moments such as:
A desire to bring people together around a shared direction, especially during growth, transition, or change
A need to strengthen trust, connection, and collaboration across teams or functions
Interest in designing a retreat or convening that builds on strengths and looks to possibility
A wish to align leadership, culture, and day-to-day practices with the values of an Appreciative Workplace
A need for a skilled external facilitator to guide meaningful participation, reflection, and action planning
A desire to create more engaging gatherings that help people celebrate progress, learn from experience, and co-create what comes next
Custom Facilitated Events help organizations turn gatherings into transformational sessions with energy, purpose, and practical outcomes. Rather than a meeting that evaporates by Monday, the event becomes a springboard for learning, alignment, and forward motion.
What You Will Walk Away With
By the end of the engagement, your group will leave with both a meaningful shared experience and practical outputs that support continued action.
You will leave with:
A facilitated experience designed around your goals, audience, and current realities
Clearer shared understanding of what is working and what future you want to build toward
Stronger connection across participants through thoughtful, engaging dialogue
A set of themes, ideas, or decisions surfaced through structured appreciative inquiry
Practical next steps, priorities, or action commitments shaped during the event
Tools, questions, or facilitation approaches you can continue using after the session.
How It Works
This engagement typically unfolds over half-day, full-day, multi-day, or multi-session formats. Timing depends on the purpose, audience, and level of design needed.
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We begin by learning about your goals, audience, context, and hoped-for outcomes. This may include planning conversations, review of existing materials, and collaborative agenda design.
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We create a tailored, engaging design, and manage logistics and production so that the event is seamlessly delivered and memorable.
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Our award-winning EnCompass facilitators lead the event itself, online or in person, with careful attention to pacing, participation, inclusion, and momentum.
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After the event, we provide a summary of key themes, outputs, and recommended next steps.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We facilitate a range of custom experiences, including retreats, annual convenings, leadership workshops, team sessions, strategic planning gatherings, training, and conferences.
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Yes. We design virtual, in-person, and hybrid engagements.
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Events can focus on the core elements of an Appreciative Workplace or a specific organizational question.
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Engagements are tailored to meet your needs—whether that be a single half-day or multi-day experience.
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Participants may include executives, managers, HR leaders, staff teams, or the full organization.
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An appreciative approach addresses challenges through inquiry, participation, and a focus on strengths, learning, dignity, and shared responsibility.
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Typically, a summary of key themes, outputs, and suggested next steps.
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Yes. We can design experiences that celebrate successes and co-create the future.
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Pricing depends on the scope, customization, participants, and format.
Ready to begin?
A well-designed event can help people reconnect to purpose, strengthen relationships, and move important work forward.
If your organization is ready to convene people in a way that is thoughtful, engaging, and grounded in the principles of an Appreciative Workplace, we would be glad to explore what a Custom Facilitated Event could look like in your context.
Schedule a conversation to get started.