PROJECTS

HOLON CONSULTING services are designed to integrate the parts and the wholes in any living system (organization, community, team and individual) by embracing the similarity and unfolding the uniqueness. Based on self-organizing systems, our approach generates buy-in and input among diverse and complex populations, leading to successful resolutions and implementations.

Holon Consulting services have been implemented with the following projects:

Projects (partial listing)

  • Visioning and Board Development: APPROPEDIA; ECO HOSTEL; CALIFORNIANS AGAINST TOXINS (CATS); TREES FOUNDATION, IN HOUSE SUPPORT SERVICES (IHSS), GREENWHEELS, TRI-COUNTY, Eureka, California; EUREKA SYMPHONY Eureka, CA.
  • Strategic Partnering Workshop and Steering Committee Facilitator, STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY, NAVAJO NATION DIVISION OF TRANSPORTATION, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS (BIA), FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION (FHWA), Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Collaborative Learning Process for Curriculum Design, HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY, Environmental Resources Engineering Department, Arcata. California.
  • Small Business Visioning Workshops- Design and Facilitation, Small Business Development Center; Business sector flights, Eureka, California
  • State/Tribal Transportation Forums- Design & Facilitation, STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY, FHWA, BIA, ARIZONA TRIBES (Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and San Carlos Apache Tribe), San Carlos, Flagstaff & Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Open Space meeting design and facilitation: Sustainable Design, Green Building Pre Apprenticeship Training Program, Hoopa, California
  • Collaborative Course/Workshop Development: Leadership, Partnering, Issue Resolution, Communications, Cultural Diversity, Workshop Facilitation, STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY.
  • Program Assessment and Planning: Green Building Youth Training Program, Humboldt County Department of Economic Development and Small Business Development Center, Eureka, California
  • Co-Design: Transform Your Life, Light Foundation, Southern California.
  • Leadership Development and Issue Resolution: Mistwood Center for Education, Bayside, California
  • Visioning & Strategic Planning (large group): Humboldt Merchant Services, Eureka, California
  • Agency-wide Leadership Network, Designer & Facilitator, State Agency, Arizona.
  • Partnering: LOCAL, STATE & FEDERAL AGENCIES, & TRIBES, Arizona.
  • Organizational Change through Strategic Visioning & Customer Meetings- Design & Facilitation, State Agency, Arizona
  • State/Tribal Strategic Partnering Team- Consultant & Facilitator, State Agency, FHWA, BIA, ITCA, AZ Tribal representatives, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Meeting Facilitation and Planning, United Indian Health Services, Physicians Group, Arcata and Klamath Falls, California
  • Public Forums: Rural Transit, Tucson , Arizona; Federal Funding Plans, Phoenix, Arizona
  • Educators Focus Groups-Design & Facilitation, RIO SALADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Tempe, Arizona.
  • Middle Management Focus Groups, State Agency, Arizona.
  • Team Building & Issue Resolution-Design & Facilitation: State Agency: EQUIPMENT SERVICES GROUP, Holbrook, Arizona. MISTWOOD CENTER FOR EDUCATION, Bayside, California. Child Development Center, Cal Poly Humboldt University, Arcata, CA.
  • Customer Focus Groups for Agency Conference-Designer, State Agency: LOCAL GOVERNMENT SECTION, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Public Forum-Design & Facilitation, BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT/U.S. FOREST SERVICE, Carlsbad, New Mexico.  COMMUNITY CREATED HUMBOLDT, Arcata, California.
  • Middle Managers Leadership Network Steering Team- Facilitator, Statewide Agency, Arizona.
  • Team Building and Organizational Development, Jamie Walling & Associates, Accountants, Eureka, California
  • Large Group Interactive Forum, PRESCOTT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Prescott, Arizona.
  • Sacred Contracts, Tools for Self Awareness: Sedona Creative Life Center, Sedona, Arizona; Spirals of Life and Jade Dragon Medical Spa, Arcata, California
  • Transportation Industry Wide Partnering Core Team- Design & Facilitation, ARIZONA STATE Agencies and Contractors, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Strategic Partnering (planning organization), METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS, COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, Statewide, Arizona.
  • Shared Expectations Customer Meetings-Design & Facilitation, State Agency, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Project Management Process Improvement Teams-Facilitator, State Agency, Arizona.
  • Team Building, State Agency, Arizona; FIRST THINGS FIRST, Arizona.
  • Strategic Partnering, INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES, Bemidji, Minnesota.
  • Planning Retreat, In House Support Services, Eureka, California; BIG BROTHERS, BIG SISTERS of the North Coast, Eureka, California; LOCALLY DELICIOUS, Arcata, California.
  • Transportation Industry Partnering (Participative Decision-Making), State Agency RESEARCH CENTER, Arizona.
  • Strategic Planning, Cochise County: Public Works District & Departments of Environmental Quality & Flood Control, COCHISE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Bisbee, Arizona.
  • Strategic Visioning, GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY & HEALTH, Gila Bend, Arizona.; PROPELSION, Arcata, California.
  • Coordinated Resource Management Planning, MOHAVE COUNTY PLANNING & ZONING DEPARTMENT, Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
  • Consensus Building, MID COUNTY PARKWAY, Tribal Engagement, Riverside County, California
  • Goal Setting, KEET RADIO: Board members and staff, Eureka, California.
  • Stakeholder Engagement, CALTRANS: 21 Stakeholders Group designed to help stakeholders explore, identify and select 1-2 Last Chance Grade alternate routes to submit to Caltrans, Crescent City, CA; SR22 HOV Lanes CALTRANS, Orange County, California.