Approach
Collaborative
Facilitating for the purpose of developing collaboration includes a fostering of horizontal information sharing amongst participants, organizing stakeholders around a common model that is aligned with shared goals.
Playful
Play is where learning happens. Reconnecting with the safety that went with childhood play is part of creating the conditions for deep learning. Workshops are built through a philosophy that challenges the glorification of busy and productivity, and instead moves towards valuing an ethical slow down.
Transformative
Transformative facilitation often means embracing natural processes of conflict and its potent source for ideas and growth.
To understand other people in an authentic way
Encourages groups and orgs to enact their own values
Accessible
My pedagogical approach centers on a diversity of cognitive and physical abilities. I work to co-create clear goals and practices, enabling participants to engage effectively. I offer concepts that connect to people’s lived experiences while also normalizing the process of learning new concepts and language.
Focus on process
A focus on process requires transforming our behaviours and structures to align with our values. This work includes examining various interpretations and experiences of stated values, building conflict and self-reflexive skills, and integrating joyful opportunities in our work.
Accountable
Accountable facilitation includes a facilitation approach that is accountable to social justice movements and to evidence (population health and social determinants of health). Accountable facilitation also includes structuring emotional safety in group learning processes, ensuring that the design of our time together leaves people feeling whole, and excited for what’s next.
Past and Current Clients
Short Bio
Mélanie (her, she, elle), MSW, RSW is a strategist, trainer, social worker and organizer.
She brings over two decades of experience in the health and social services sectors. Grounded in the ethos of liberation and social justice, she has worked in sexual and reproductive health, community development, harm-reduction and popular education. These experiences shaped her favourite ways to learn and teach: through stories, art and things that make people laugh.
Long Bio
Mélanie (her, she, elle), MSW, RSW is a strategist, trainer, social worker and organizer. She comes from a family of helpers and doers, growing up on unceded Algonquin territories, in urban (Vanier), rural (Embrun, Limoges, Vars) and suburban (Orléans) communities.
Select Speaking and Interviews
Creating a culture of inclusion in research requires more than just good intentions. It also requires access to useful resources and the development of the necessary skills. In this conversation, we will briefly explore various resources and frameworks that can help build a culture of inclusion in research.
Join us for our next event in the Faculty of Education Research Dialogues series with Melanie Stafford, the University of Ottawa’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor. Register for this event on May 16, 2023 at 12:00 pm.
Poverty and homelessness make people more vulnerable. The last thing we should do is oppose financial support for them.
The City of Ottawa sanctions bullying and intimidation of women by giving campaigners a permit to protest at the Morgentaler clinic. Time to create protest-free zones.
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Thank you
Community Builders: Mélanie Stafford keeps Overbrook Community Cares on track
By United Way East Ontario