COMING SOON:
Facilitation Training

Grow your skills. Guide your group.
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 Portland, Oregon. You can sign up for one, two, or all three sessions.

BEGINNER

New to facilitation, or just want to brush up? Start here. Build foundational skills to confidently lead your first meetings and work groups. Practice in a supportive environment and leave with tools you can use immediately.

You’ll Walk Away With:

  • A facilitation toolkit of tangible strategies you can immediately apply to meetings, workgroups, and small team sessions.

  • Confidence and ease in leading groups, even if you’ve never facilitated before.

  • Foundational process skills that help you guide conversations, keep groups focused, and move toward shared outcomes.

  • Practical templates and prompts for agendas, meeting openings, decision-making, and closing sessions.

  • A supportive network of peers who are also beginning their facilitation journey.

BONUS VIRTUAL SESSION
Translating these beginner skills to virtual settings

INTERMEDIATE

Ready to level up? Strengthen your facilitation skills with advanced techniques for managing group dynamics, navigating conflict, and designing engaging processes. Build on your experience with expert guidance.

You’ll Walk Away With:

  • Advanced tools for navigating real group dynamics—including conflict, power differences, and uneven participation.

  • A more intentional facilitation presence, with the ability to shift your approach based on what the group needs.

  • Design skills for engaging, participatory processes, not just well-run meetings.

  • Strategies for diagnosing and responding to stuck moments, conflict cycles, and unclear goals.

  • Thought partnership and feedback from facilitators who can help you refine and elevate your style.

BONUS VIRTUAL SESSION
Translating these intermediate skills to virtual settings

ADVANCED

Master complex facilitation. Learn sophisticated techniques for multi-stakeholder processes, adaptive facilitation, and equity-centered design. Refine your practice with expert coaches and experienced peers.

You’ll Walk Away With:

  • Expert-level capacity to facilitate complex, multi-stakeholder processes and cross-sector collaborations.

  • Adaptive facilitation strategies for rapidly changing contexts, political dynamics, and long-term initiatives.

  • Equity-centered and trauma-informed design approaches that support inclusive, power-conscious processes.

  • High-level diagnostic tools for understanding systems, mapping relationships, and orchestrating strategic conversations.

    Coaching, reflection, and a peer community that pushes your practice into true mastery.

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.

  • akinna Miles, MPH, is a skilled facilitator and strategic planning practitioner with deep experience designing and leading inclusive community engagement efforts. Her trauma-informed, equity-centered approach reflects strong systems thinking and a natural ability to foster trust and participation across diverse groups. Known for her personability and thoughtful presence, Makinna creates spaces where people feel heard, valued, and eager to engage.


    As a Senior Consultant with Rede Group, Makinna has led and supported assessment, evaluation, engagement, and planning efforts with health and social service agencies and coalitions across Oregon. Her work spans a range of issues connected to the social determinants of health, and she is especially experienced in climate and health. Makinna holds a Master of Public Health from Oregon State University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon. She is trained in the Institute of Cultural Affairs’ Technology of Participation (ToP) methods and has completed professional training in strategic planning through the Performance Institute.

  • 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.