Facilitation that harnesses the power of the collective

It’s time to map a path to realize your vision.

Your organization is here to do incredible work. You want to be seen as the effective, passionate leader that you are, one who leads effective change.

Alignment is a superpower. It arises with greater ease in organizational cultures which intentionally support the wellbeing and authentic wholeness of the team.

BELOVED CLIENTS

When your path is heading into unknown territory or especially challenging terrain, you want a map and a guide.

I help facilitate organizational alignment so that you can do the good work that happens through collective effort

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Meet your trail guide.

With decades of experience facilitating groups and building coalitions, teams and alliances on the executive level, I am the trusted confidant and artful facilitator who will help you unite and lead your organization to realize a shared vision.

I have built coalitions from the ground up.

I assist executive leaders, government teams, and community stakeholders to unify their people, foster collaboration to realize their vision while prioritizing well-being and spiritual connection to their work.

I’m not your typical consultant… Pairing nature-based practices and holistic well-being with my 30 years of experience as a teacher, coalition builder, and entrepreneur is my secret medicine. This isn’t fake, woo woo, false positivity, all light and rainbows kind of stuff. This is deep work and requires honesty and courage.

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HOW I’M DIFFERENT

My work is dynamic, not prescriptive, and it is as unique as the clients I serve, informed by your organization’s values and the situation at hand.

Sound good? Here are three ways I can help you build Conscious Coalitions to transform your organization:

Organizational Consulting

Build trust, dispel tension, and get your team to buy into your big picture vision through space cleaning and clearing, retreats, strategic planning events, and ongoing facilitation for your team, alliance, coalition, task force, or committee.

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Soulful Coaching

Personal 1:1 coaching to help you lead with authenticity and heart without compromising your values or personal well-being. We’ll find solutions to your biggest challenges and install long-term strategies to sustain your spiritual connection to your work and life.

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Earth-Based Practices

Our path to sustainability, regeneration, and resilience can be found in nature’s cycles. Whether one on one or for your organization, I offer classes, courses, ceremonies, and experiences to help you align with nature’s wisdom.

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WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING

SUCCESS STORIES

More Connected and Energized for the Future.

“We were delighted to wrap up the retreat having achieved our lofty goal of identifying our mission, vision, values, and populating a strategic framework to guide organizational decisions in to the future”.

Camaraderie and Growth

I wholeheartedly recommend Mary Christa's consulting practice! Recently, she led our organization's board and staff retreat, and it was a great success.

Focused and In Tune

I enthusiastically recommend Mary Christa for organizational strategic planning and mission refinement. She recently facilitated both a staff-only retreat and a combined retreat of our organization’s staff and board, with much success.

Beyond what I could have dreamed of!

Hive Family Collective a small non-profit in Park City needed to build a board. We didn’t know how so we hired Mary Christa.

I felt supported throughout the process

We are grateful for the chance to have worked with Mary Christa Smith on the development of our Food System Leader Training Program. Mary Christa’s preparedness, compassion, cultural sensitivity, and years of experience were evident in her work to train our facilitators.

Working with Mary Christa has been a dream!

Working with Mary Christa / Conscious Coalition Consulting has been a dream! Mary Christa is a skilled facilitator who brings empathy, wisdom, and care to her work.

An extraordinary facilitator

I had the pleasure of working with Mary Christa - an extraordinary facilitator - for our board retreat and her impact was truly remarkable. From her impeccable preparation to the moment she stepped into the room, her engaging presence captured our attention and set the tone for an insightful experience.

Kind, compassionate and wise leadership

Our team chose Mary Christa to lead our staff retreat and could not be happier with her kind, compassionate, wise leadership.

Decades of Wisdom

I chose to participate in her course, “The Art of Making Offerings,” and I must say this course was/is so much more than I had thought it would be.

Understands Social Equity

I have nothing but respect for the dedication that Mary Christa Smith has in her work. She is an amazing facilitator who understands social equity and what steps we have to take in achieving it.

Kindness and Empathy

Working with Mary Christa has been a wonderful experience. Her professionalism cannot go unnoticed.

A Path for Positive Change

Mary Christa has the rare blend of skills and temperament to build enthusiasm behind an idea and create a path for positive change.

Calm, Grounded, Collaborative Solutions

In 2018, Mary Christa Smith engaged me and my team at Soul Story Creative to help her develop the brand messaging and strategy for Communities That Care.

A Thoughtful and Inclusive Atmosphere

Mary Christa at Conscious Coalition Consulting has been instrumental in helping us launch the Housing Resource Center at Mountainlands Community Housing Trust.

Thoughtful Energy and Enthusiasm

Mary Christa came with thoughtful energy and enthusiasm as she assisted our organization in planning for new staffing and structural changes.

Significant Value

Perhaps Mary Christa’s greatest strength is that she is a calm presence during often chaotic times and across sensitive issues.

An Expert Facilitator

Aligning a group of people from different perspectives and organizations to create a new, shared initiative (that actually makes a difference) is extremely challenging work.

Knowledge and Intuition

Mary Christa combines the well-researched knowledge of an organizational coach with the intuition of a healer.

Master Meeting Facilitator

Mary Christa is a master meeting facilitator. She expertly guided our group through thoughtfully crafted agendas including key objectives to make each meeting a success.

Excels in Communication and Planning

Mary Christa helped our organization facilitate our annual board and staff retreat last month, and a meeting that could have gone in a less helpful direction went instead in a positive, uplifting, and very connected one.

Open and Authentic Style

Mary Christa is an incredible person to work with, and it's been a privilege to experience her expert facilitation skills during meetings and workshops. I appreciate her open and authentic style in leading and growing coalitions and as an executive director.

Safe and Trusted Leadership

Mary Christa is the safe and trusting leadership in challenging organizational processes, which is absolutely necessary in any whole person work.

Deep Thought, Grace, and Efficiency

I have had the great pleasure of working with Mary Christa Smith as a meeting facilitator for the past 4.5 months. The project we are working on is complex and important with high emotional value and many parties involved.

Invaluable

Working with Mary Christa feels like being able to breathe more freely and fully as a team. At one point in our work, we reached a challenging place of feeling stuck and encountering knots that felt unsolvable.

Nothing Less Than Spectacular

In a fledgling startup, we found ourselves at a crossroads. Major decisions needed to be made and a new and definitive direction needed to be set, all with major consequences for our staff.

Case Study

“Mary Christa is the safe and trusting leadership in challenging organizational processes, which is absolutely necessary in any whole person work.

Mary Christa is the safe and trusting leadership in challenging organizational processes, which is absolutely necessary in any whole person work. She has a rare old-world talent for sensing the mind/body/spirit of each person in the room and guiding the whole group emergently toward cohesion. Particularly in those really messy moments of competing personalities and interests, MC improvises fluidly on her feet, steps right into the discomfort, and navigates back to the throughline to reach shared vision.”

Stephanie Stettler
Reclamation Way