Eris Weaver
Facilitator & Group Process Consultant

Are your board meetings poorly attended, boring, and/or nonproductive? Could your group's communication skills and decision-making processes use a boost? Does your cohousing community need help processing a difficult, emotional, or contentious issue? Eris Weaver can help!

Facilitation and Training Services

Eris works with cohousing communities, other intentional communities, and nonprofits to:

• Facilitate meetings on difficult or emotional issues
• Coach process teams on agenda planning and facilitation techniques
• Teach workshops on consensus and other collaborative decision-making techniques; communication skills; and conflict resolution.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Eris is available to travel to other parts of the country.

Current and Past Clients Pleasant Hill Cohousing North Oakland Cohousing Ukiah Valley Cohousing Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Community Builder for Cohousing Partners, a cohousing development firm, providing training and facilitation coaching to their developing communities in California. Founding member and facilitator at FrogSong, a cohousing community in Cotati, California

Testimonials

"Thank you for the excellent job you did today at our meeting. I appreciate you - I think this is exciting work that you do--the potentials of which are big!"

-- Jeanne Diller, CCCO volunteer

"I very much appreciate your bringing your wisdom and experience to us this week - I think the meeting has brought us closer to a plan to help keep [our program] going. Many thanks for putting so much energy and careful thought into the meeting, both before and during."

-- Dorothy Callison, CCCO volunteer

"Seldom have I observed a group facilitator with the rare talent that Ms. Weaver so obviously possesses. Meticulous in every way, she is well organized yet capable of flexibility, respectful of individuals in the group yet focused on the needs of the group as a whole. She is incredibly conscientious and focused, and still able to communicate humor, enabling even the most hesitant members to relax and speak their truth. Ms. Weaver is a strong, sensitive and well-trained group leader."

-- Dorothy M. Giller, MA, Santa Rosa Creek Commons

"To watch skilled facilitating is a real treat - The respectfulness with which people were heard and treated was heart warming."

-- Hetty Herman-Minsk, Santa Rosa Creek Commons

"Thanks so much for all your efforts to help us as we walk off the plank...your enthusiasm and ability to help us all get a sense of each other and the process we will encounter in next 2 years was amazing....I personally learned a lot and hope to try out some of the techniques in my own community."

-- Karen Hester, cohousing consultant

"Eris helped us plan and also led our first group meeting -- a group process/group formation workshop -- pointing skillfully to the road and helping us set off on our cohousing journey. I can't imagine beginning a group without someone like her. And I can't believe the workshop was only seven weeks ago!"

-- Joan Lichterman, North Oakland Cohousing

"Eris is excellent -- she is strong, funny, smart, and not afraid to call people on their bullshit, if needed. She is intrepid. I don't think that conflict bothers her much, if at all."

-- Sally Wright, Pleasant Hill Cohousing