Convening Strategy & Facilitation

Convenings

Creating Connections for Change

At COMPASS, relationships are at the heart of our work. With over 25 years of experience, we specialize in creating welcoming spaces that spark meaningful conversations and drive new collaborations. Our approach isn’t just about gathering people; it’s about fostering trust, understanding, and action.

Our expertise

Intentional Gatherings

We’ll help you design and facilitate gatherings that foster trust, spark insights, and lead to shared understanding and purposeful action.

Roundtables

Our purpose-driven roundtables bring together subject matter experts, journalists, policymakers, and community members to address some of the world’s most pressing issues—from sustainable food systems to wildfire resilience. These gatherings spark new ideas, deepen understanding, and open doors for collaborations that would otherwise not exist.

Meeting Facilitation

We believe in creating inclusive conversations that foster shared goals and mutual understanding. Whether you’re working with a small team or leading a large, cross-functional meeting, our facilitators ensure that every participant has a chance to contribute, collaborate, and leave with clear, actionable next steps.

Conferences

Planning a conference? Let’s make it impactful! From in-person to virtual events, we work closely with organizers to craft conferences around powerful themes and engaging activities that resonate with your community, spark collaboration, and build authentic, lasting relationships.

Let’s Connect

Ready to create more purposeful, effective gatherings? Contact us to design spaces that spark meaningful conversations and drive new collaborations.

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There is nothing like sitting shoulder to shoulder, hearing the collective passion for our science in the voices of fellow scientists, to realize we are all pulling the same cart; the differences in our views become less important than the common ground we realize we’re all standing on.

~ Tania Schoennagel

I gained a lot of clarity around science needs / governance / fisheries and climate related barriers and challenges to adaptation, and also current vehicles to onboard science.

~ Fisheries Rountable Participant

The COMPASS meeting provided a face-to-face forum for different scientists to share their own perspectives, and we very quickly realized that we agree much more than we disagree on most aspects of fire ecology. Once we were able to pull out from the detailed debates and look at how much consensus we had, we realized that those common messages are getting lost in the broader (public) dialogue about fire science and fire ecology. Building up from common ground not only helped us craft several core messages that we should more effectively communicate to the public, but the trust that was fostered from the process will also help move the science forward.

~ Brian Harvey, Associate Professor at the University of Washington