Beatrice Briggs

President, International Institute of Facilitation and Consensus Management

Consensus Facilitation

• 1998-present. Founding member of “Facilitación y Consenso”, a team of facilitators based in Tepoztlan, Mexico.
• 1994-1998, a principal in Great Lakes Consensus, a consulting firm that provides facilitation training and services to grassroots community groups, not-for-profit organizations and government agencies.
• Since 1994, has taught facilitation workshops all over the Americas.
• Organized Driftless Area Facilitators Guild, Madison, WI, 1996.
• Author Introduction to Consensus, 2000
• Author “Consensus in Latin America”, Communities magazine, Winter 2000.
• Co-author “Consensus: The Way Healthy Communities Make Decisions” Conscious Choice, January 1995.
• Member of International Association for Public Participation since 1995.

Academic Education

• 1988. Completed course work for doctorate in the History of Religions at the Divinity School, University of Chicago; MA '85, University of Chicago (Divinity School); MA '82, Mundelein College (Religious Studies); BA '66, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (Honours English).
• Partial List of Recent Clients and Courses (References available upon request)
• Global Ecovillage Network. Facilitation of 4-day Board of Directors meeting, Massachusetts, USA. February 2001.
• Ashoka Foundation. Facilitation of 5-day meeting of international fellows involved in educational change. Tepoztlan, Mexico, November 2000.
• Solar Forum 2000 Coordination of 6-person facilitation team for 4-day course in “Renewable energy and the Environment” Mexico City, Mexico. September 2000.
• Consensus trainings in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. April 2000.

Fluent in English and Spanish.