We Work With You.

If you're working to make some part of this large world more open, safe, accessible, free, and sustainable for the people who occupy it, we're here with you.

Present Part Co works with Movements, Collectives, Activists, Artists, Advocates, Philanthropy, Non-Profits, Community Based Organizations.

Present Part Services, Competencies, Offerings

Events, Meetings, Gatherings, Retreats

From large movement spaces to smaller groups with shared purpose, we can drive or support you in the creation of an agenda, space, facilitation approach, and detailed plan to reconnect, to connect anew, to make decisions, to create community culture, and to change your world. We help you answer any of the who, when, where, why you haven't already answered and then accompany you with all of the how.

  • Purpose, Theme, and Engagement Model Identification

  • Agenda, Facilitation, Staffing, Materials, Documentation Design

  • Venue, Hybrid model, and Technical Solution Selection

  • Participatory Events, Activities, Vetting, and Planning Practices

  • Social, Care, Community Support Event and Space Design

  • Language and Translation Strategy Design

  • Threat modeling and Security Planning

  • Art Participation and Collaboration Planning

  • Speaker Identification and Ambassador Coaching Support

  • EmCee, Hosting, Moderation, and Facilitation Support

Team, Wellbeing-Focused Human Resources

You deserve to be well, happy, and fulfilled while doing the hard work you signed up for. We've seen what really works in some settings crash and burn in others, and we have practices and support to make sure your tools fit your context.

  • Equity-based Hiring and Compensation

  • Values-aligned Recruitment and Retention

  • Team-building; Individual and Team Strength, Personality, and Communications Tools and Audits

  • Support Supervision Practices

  • Performance Management, Assessment, and Planning

  • Values Identification, Clarification, and Implementation

  • Well-being and wellness planning and programs

  • Decision-making Models, Role Clarity and Power Awareness, and Hierarchy-Challenging Practices.

Organizational, Team, and Change Management Advising

We're always changing; some processes and changes need more support than others.

  • Strategic Planning, Change Management, and Communications

  • Transition Processes

  • Internal Communications,

  • Conflict Transformation and Accountability Practice

  • Courageous Conversations and Feedback Models

  • Power and Context Aware Subtitling

  • Movement and Artist Collaborations

  • Independence and Partnership Processes

  • Governance and Structural Assessment

  • Threat Identification, Risk Assessment

Process and Programming Support

We take an accompaniment approach to supporting you and your programming. Whatever ripples, whatever tremors, whichever alarm or bell you need to sound, we are here with you.

  • Annual Planning, Budgeting Process Support

  • Participatory Decision-Making and Grantmaking

  • Stigmatized Community and Topic Engagement

  • Managing Barriers and Status Discrepancies

  • Membership Vetting, High Security Need Programs, Complex Comms Plans, Tech Solution Recommendations, Alt Phone Trees

  • Multiple Language and Literacy Level Plans

  • Urban/Rural, Tech/No Access, High/Low Risk Collaboration and Participation Planning

  • After Action Reviews

Coaching, Training, and Facilitation

We're ready to walk with you on whatever challenge you're encountering, step you want to take next, skills you want to propagate. Whether one off, regular, seasonal, or episodic, we can build a coaching or training structure to support you.

Our modalities:

  • Executive, Management, Leadership Coaching

  • Reparative Coaching

  • Values and Legacy Coaching

  • Team System Coaching

  • Individual and Team Conflict Accompaniment and Coaching

  • Board Coaching

  • Complex Media Training

  • Conflict Communication and Conflict Accompaniment

  • Facilitation Modalities and Training of Trainers: Liberating Structures, Training for Change, Seeds for Change

  • Non–violent Communication (NVC)

Documentary, Film, Advocacy, Campaign Media Advising

We've won awards, elicited policy changes, garnered international Human Rights body attention and collaboration, and helped change laws. We can help your media campaign connect with people now.

Our specialities:

  • Narrative Strategy and Development

  • Community Produced Media

  • Non-extractive Community Art Participation

  • Vulnerable Human Subjects

  • Vulnerable Audience Engagement

  • Stigmatized Identities, Topics, Themes

  • Power and Context Aware Subtitling

  • Values-based Galas, Festivals, and Rollouts

  • Movement and Artist Collaborations

It's impossible for consultants to have seen it all; your team, your people, your challenges are unique and nuanced, so any work with you needs to be based on what you all have seen and where you're going.

AND, we have seen a lot, from a lot of different angles. Seen enough to know when we need additional help to solve a problem, and enough to know that our love of community and helping teams be safe and healthy places for the humans doing the work–with their breath and labor and might–can see us all through.

We're here to work with you on whatever you need, but sometimes you just need to see a list of ideas:

The Present Participle is Happening Now

Present Part Co partners in the ongoing work of becoming—strategizing, facilitating, storytelling, and shaping systems where humans and communities can thrive.