The Florida Project Learning Tree Program was initiating a strategic planning session with their steering committee. Rooted in Process helped to co-facilitate along with Facilitation Professionals LLC, an in-person full day session with the steering committee and new Program Director. The aim of the meeting was to explore the programs overarching goal, provide an opportunity for small group work, and brainstorm objectives for each goal. We used processes such as gallery walk, focused conversation, clustering ideas, and dot voting. The result was creation of four goal statements and clusters of objectives under each. The group achieved consensus on goal statements and voted on their top objectives to focus on for the next year. These processes and facilitated session gave everyone on the steering committee an opportunity to contribute and for the new Program Director to be immersed in the content versus managing the group dynamics.
