Who’s Tenneson?
I’m a Poet, a Coach, and a Group Process Facilitator.
I’m also a consultant, workshop leader, and teacher. I am committed to improving collaboration and imagination in groups, teams, communities, and organizations — to help us be in times such as these with consciousness, kindness, and learning. My work for 25+ years has been to design and lead meetings in participative formats. From strategic visioning with boards, to large conference design, to communities just learning to listen again to one another.
I work with groups, organizations, and individuals sorting their way toward more wise, kind, helpful and life-giving ways. Both in short term improvements and long term strategy. Here’s an extensive list of groups I’ve consulted and guided over the years.
As it is with all of us, there is nuance that surrounds and thickens the plot. I’m also a dad. I’m a new grandfather. I’m a brother, a son, an uncle, a nephew, a partner, a friend. I’m an Art of Hosting Steward, a Flow Game Practitioner, and Circle Way Facilitator. I’m a Workshop Design Geek — it’s just plain fun to create formats for joyful learning together.
Read on for other ways of saying all of that. The first step is a conversation. Let’s connect.
Coaching as a Group Process Facilitator
Most of the work that I do is leadership development and team building. My efforts are to help people be more wise together, yet also more simple and clear. Most organizations and communities crave this. It’s why I have passion as a Group Process facilitator.
Three orientations — living systems, self-organization, and emergence — inspire and inform all of my work. So does emptiness, breath, and a freshly-picked garden tomato. My approaches are framed to integrate the inner with the outer, and the present moment with the longer arc of time. All of that so as to create sustainable and vibrant systems of human beings doing well with what they most care about.
If you are a person or group that seeks both better meetings, and, yearns to be in the questions as much as the answers in the name of more humane systems everywhere, let’s begin to explore. We might find work together that changes everything. We might find journey. We mind find both.
Poetry as a Group Process Facilitator
All of my life, I’ve been the kind of person that has had as much interest in the unseen as I have had in the seen. I’ve had interest in the mystery and the mystical, with an inherent hunch that things are not as they seem, despite the human ability to concretize perception.
My love or prosed Poetry is a love of getting to essence. My love of Coaching is a love of guiding to purpose, meaning, direction, and instinct. My love of Group Process Facilitation is inviting group imagination and collaboration. That for the bigger picture of things and for the next first steps. My best work is often combining all of this together. Getting to what is more smart, more wise, more purposed — together.
Background
My education background includes an undergraduate degree in psychology and a graduate degree in organizational behavior. My work lineages include The Berkana Institute with Margaret Wheatley, The Circle Way with Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea, and The Art of Hosting with Toke Moeller and Monica Nissen.
I am originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I now live in South Jordan, Utah, on traditional lands of Utes and Goshutes, in a high desert valley that meets the foot of the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains.
