In order for all voices to be valued in society, systems, organizations, and our approach to social change must embrace inclusivity. Inclusive, participatory processes are the foundation for ensuring everyone has a voice.
All Voices services aim to foster fair and meaningful inclusion, creating opportunities for all to participate, thrive, and reach their full potential.
All Voices services aim to foster fair and meaningful inclusion, creating opportunities for all to participate, thrive, and reach their full potential.
Collaborative Governance Support
All Voices support organizations who want to incorporate inclusive practices within their work environments. Unintentionally, our work environments can promote unwanted oppressive practices that devalue certain voices and do not allow for shared decision making.
Promoting collaborative governance is a values-based alternative that harnesses everyone’s ability to lead, envision and contribute to the organization as a whole. It serves as a practice to promote mutual empowerment, creating a space for discovery, innovation and shared leadership. It emphasizes collaborative decision making, which can relieve burdened executives by utilizing the collective knowledge of all employees and also inspire employees to take more ownership of their work and their role in the organization. We take a personalized approach to supporting an organization transition or enhance their collected leadership. Learn more about our approach to collective leadership.
Promoting collaborative governance is a values-based alternative that harnesses everyone’s ability to lead, envision and contribute to the organization as a whole. It serves as a practice to promote mutual empowerment, creating a space for discovery, innovation and shared leadership. It emphasizes collaborative decision making, which can relieve burdened executives by utilizing the collective knowledge of all employees and also inspire employees to take more ownership of their work and their role in the organization. We take a personalized approach to supporting an organization transition or enhance their collected leadership. Learn more about our approach to collective leadership.
Educational Workshops Promoting Inclusion
All Voices offers a variety of workshops that support inclusive and participatory practices within groups and organizations that can be catered to your group's needs.
Here are some examples:
Here are some examples:
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Meeting Engineering: Facilitating Effective Collaboration Meeting Engineering is a training that helps leaders facilitate productive meetings by navigating group dynamics and ensuring all voices are heard. It combines results-based facilitation, adaptive leadership, and emotional intelligence to enhance collaboration and move groups toward shared outcomes. The workshop focuses on how to structure conversations, foster collaboration, and guide groups toward actionable commitments, whether facilitating or participating. The goal is to create a space where every voice is valued and effective decisions are made. Setting the Stage for Authentic Community Engagement This immersive workshop explores the vital elements of engaging with diverse groups, covering the who, what, where, when, and why of community engagement. Utilizing the Pre-Community Engagement Framework (see publications), which offers practical strategies and insights, participants will leave the session with ideas to move their projects forward to support in fostering inclusivity and driving impactful change. Introduction to Inclusive Decision Making A workshop that explores different models of inclusive decision-making, teaching organizations how to integrate more participatory approaches into their decision-making processes. This session focuses on ensuring that everyone’s input is considered and valued. |
Introduction to Worker Self-Directed Nonprofits
This workshop introduces the concept of worker-self-directed nonprofits (WSDNs), where employees have a central role in decision-making and governance. Participants will explore the benefits and challenges of this model, including collective decision-making, shared leadership, and fostering collaboration and transparency. This session is ideal for nonprofit leaders and staff interested in exploring innovative organizational structures that prioritize collaboration and worker empowerment. |
Diarist Documentation of New Programs or Initiatives
Social change often takes an unpredictable path due the complexity that exists among interacting systems, individual factors, and unexpected events that occur while implementing a particular initiative. Utilizing a Diarist throughout the implementation of a program or project can serve as a way to capture lessons and insights to adapt in real time or inform future work. Diarist work involves documenting observations and activities throughout a project period or after, with the intention of providing a product such as a timeline of activities, evaluation summary or organizational guidebook. Learn more about the roles a Diarist can play to help your organization.
Other Services
Organizational Culture Audits
All Voices can conduct Organizational Culture Audits, a transformative approach designed to help organizations identify and remove limiting systems while fostering inclusive and participatory environments. We believe meaningful change comes from a deep examination of an organization's culture, power structures, and practices. We assess every aspect of your organization—from decision-making processes to communication channels and employee experiences—to ensure collaboration and support lasting transformation.
Inclusive Community Engagement
All Voices offers thoughtful and creative support to organizations looking to engage communities in meaningful ways. We understand that every community is unique, and we work closely with organizations to help them identify key stakeholders, particularly those at the margins, and determine the best ways to engage them.
Our approach focuses on building trust and fostering relationships to ensure all voices are heard. We help organizations develop tailored strategies that are inclusive, sensitive to community dynamics, and designed to create strong, lasting connections. This enables more effective and sustainable outcomes in community engagement.
Our approach focuses on building trust and fostering relationships to ensure all voices are heard. We help organizations develop tailored strategies that are inclusive, sensitive to community dynamics, and designed to create strong, lasting connections. This enables more effective and sustainable outcomes in community engagement.