facilitating the (extra)-ordinary
Meetings are where culture is practiced. Ordinary Facilitation helps leaders, teams, and communities cross the threshold from tedious, defensive gatherings into spaces of candor, clarity, and connection.
When gatherings change, everything changes
Real change doesn’t begin in decks or directives — it begins in how we meet.
Ordinary Facilitation is a discipline of presence and design — a way of holding meetings, decisions, and relationships that restores connection, clarity, candor, and flow.
These principles aren’t techniques or tricks — they’re ways of paying attention. They form the architecture of honesty, shared expectation, and mutual respect — where the ordinary work of gathering becomes the ground for transformation.
The Principles of Ordinary Facilitation
Learning the practice of presence, witness and rhythm
Arrival & Presence — How we arrive shapes what’s possible.
Authenticity — The facilitator’s honesty opens space for others to be real.
Curiosity — Every voice knows something you don’t. Listen for what’s missing.
Responsibility — Ownership grows from integrity, not oversight.
Equal Dignity — Every person’s voice is met with respect.
Closure & Rhythm — Meetings end clearly, with gratitude and return.
Explore how these principles transform ordinary meetings into places of renewal.
Most of us dread meetings
They’ve become ordinary in the worst way: tedious, defensive, and unproductive.
At their worst, they’re full of conflict without resolution — tense, postured, draining.
At best? disengaging and stagnant.
We walk in with low expectations, on guard, assuming little of value will happen. Over time, that resignation becomes part of the culture.
But what if ordinary gatherings could feel alive again?
Cross the threshold.
We treat the ordinary structures of meetings — how we arrive, listen, decide, and close — as a threshold.
Practiced together, these simple shifts help teams and leaders move from routine patterns into real progress: honesty without defensiveness, decisions that actually stick, and closure that feels clean instead of abrupt.
Built on a few simple principles you can learn and start using immediately.
HOW WE WORK
Every offering begins with two questions: what’s stuck? And how do we return to flow?
What others are saying
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“I thought I needed help running better meetings. What I actually needed was a way to help my team listen to one another again.”
– Molly M. Coaching Client
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“You have a unique ability to steer a team through difficult but necessary conversations — the kind early-stage teams often avoid. By ensuring those topics were addressed head-on, you helped us achieve alignment and break through critical roadblocks.”
– David Stern, CEO, Create Advertising // Chairman glossi.io
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"Ben brings pace, focus, and clarity while keeping things human. That combination shaped how we make decisions today.”
– Will Erwin, CEO glossi.io
Ready to begin noticing the ordinary in your own work?
Every team has its patterns. Seeing them clearly is where change begins.
Meetings get stuck; clarity gets them moving again. In one focused session, we’ll review a real meeting and reveal how to bring honesty, connection, and flow back to your team. You’ll leave with concrete tools to shift how you gather and collaborate.
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