COMING SOON:
Facilitation Training

Do you want to make your meetings better?
Do you need to lead a group decision-making process?
Become a better facilitator and get your groups to do their best thinking!

Join our facilitation training series!

Coming soon in Winter - Spring 2026, Rede Group will be hosting a three-part facilitation training series. The full training series will be offered in-person in both the PDX metro area and SEA-TAC metro area. You can sign up for one, two, or all three sessions.

BEGINNER

Facilitation basics:

  1. The facilitator's role

  2. Virtual and in-person considerations

  3. Equity and inclusion in facilitation

  4. Steps to creating participatory meetings

  5. Facilitative listening

  6. Overcoming common challenges facilitators face in meeting facilitation

BONUS VIRTUAL SESSION
Translating these beginner skills to virtual settings

INTERMEDIATE

Equity, inclusion, and group dynamics

  1. Group dynamics and fostering divergent thinking

  2. Participatory building blocks and the facilitator's role

  3. Tools and activities for participatory meetings

  4. Facilitation graphics and visual techniques for engagement

  5. Intermediate facilitative listening skills

BONUS VIRTUAL SESSION
Translating these intermediate skills to virtual settings

ADVANCED

Decision-making, consensus, and adaptive leadership

  1. Facilitating collective equity-centered action groups

  2. Facilitating consensus and action through understanding and honoring group dynamics 

  3. Recognizing, naming, and increasing agility in group dynamics

  4. Identifying adaptive vs technical challenges

  5. Addressing adaptive problems. 

BONUS VIRTUAL SESSION
Translating these advanced skills to virtual settings

Meet the trainers

  • Jill is an accomplished health policy strategist, researcher, and public health visionary. Her hands-on, collaborative leadership approach ensures that each Rede Group project is treated with the care and attention befitting of the complex public health challenges being addressed. 

    Jill has over 25 years of experience researching, analyzing, developing, and implementing successful public policy campaigns and initiatives. She is a resourceful and tenacious problem solver, committed to improving community health through policy and systems change. 

    Jill has a BS in Psychology and an MA in Organizational Leadership and Ethics.

  • Elena is a passionate public health advocate with skills in program planning and evaluation, policy advocacy, and systems change. She is a tenacious learner and loves diving into public health issues from various angles, whether reviewing research literature, mapping the policy landscape, or building relationships with communities directly impacted by an issue to understand problems and co-create solutions grounded in community wisdom. 

    Elena has a master of public health degree from the University of North Carolina and completed her undergraduate studies in human biology at Stanford University.

  • Audra is an experienced non-profit professional specializing in community partnered participatory research methodologies. With a bachelors in Health Education, another in Community Health, a Master’s in Public Health, and currently earning a Master’s in Global Health and Medical Anthropology, Audra is passionate about understanding health and approaching health equity solutions from multiple perspectives and levels of society.