Custom Activations
You have a space. You want more aliveness, connection, and engagement in it.
You want to grow and nurture a community that extends your impact and creates a new lifeline for your mission.
I am here to help you develop a community pulse — whether through one off gatherings, an ongoing series, or a patchwork of programming.
I work with you to really listen to your people. Once we understand what they are craving and how they see your space or org playing a part, we can design activations that your people are jazzed and committed to show up for.
Case Study
BY WAY OF US
Read more about the three part conversation series I custom curated for events organization By Way of Us to activate their Portland chapter.
The Process
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Get Familiar
I learn everything I can about you, your space/org, and how you want to activate your community
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Get Aligned
I create a custom proposal for Phase 1 of work together with a high level plan for possible future phases
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Get Started
We start with an initial activation to either focus on listening / research or test a specific event prototype
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Keep Going
If we both want to continue, we keep aligning and commitment to a new scope of work as we move along
The details
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Reach out to book a free exploratory call. Ideally we even meet in person at your space or a space that is the kind of place you’d like to host events. Right now I am only facilitating events in the Portland, OR area.
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My rates vary from project to project based on scope. After our initial conversation I will include my project rate in the proposal I send over. Trust that I very much am responsive and attentive to your budget and am happy to get creative on pricing where possible.
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Yes! Here is an example of what initial Phase 1 can look like:
Example #1: A physical space with low clarity on what their community wants
A wellness space that offers various bodywork sessions wants to create more community between their patrons and the wider practitioner community in their local city. They aren’t exactly sure what their two communities want. We create a separate listening session for both their clientele and the practitioners in their network where the main goal is to understand how they want to be supported. For example, a 2-3 hour gathering of 7-10 people with broadly framed prompts that create space for authentic sharing and insight generation, followed up with a report on insights and sound bytes from the gathering that create the argument for what community / event structure to experiment with next.
Real Case Study: Before launching my own event space, I co-hosted three listening sessions with 5-8 participants that greatly impacted the direction of the space.
Example #2: An org (with no permanent space) with clarity on what their community wants
A women’s business networking organization hosts regular events and has continued to hear that the org members want a show and tell night where they get to actually share behind-the-curtain of their business operations. We host a collaborative event design session to create the structure for the event (optional: I support them with language to market the event). I act as event facilitator to ensure the best practices, values, and structure of the session are carried out. Post-event we debrief how it went and determine any potential next steps of repetition or remixing.
Real Case Study: Experience Institute hired me to create and produce their Leap Night Dinners where I helped onboard dinner hosts in cities across the country, streamline all of the marketing assets and internal communication, and facilitate the retrospective call where hosts digested their insights and made recommendations for future years.