New Brunswick Facilitator

No, we facilitate in English. We’d rather tell you that in the first minute than let you find out later. If your session genuinely needs to run in French, it deserves a francophone facilitator and we’ll help you look for one. For rooms that are bilingual rather than francophone, there’s a middle ground that works well, and we’ve set it out in the section above.

No. Positive Impact is based in Victoria, BC, and our facilitators travel to New Brunswick for in-person work. What travels well is the facilitation craft itself, and what doesn’t travel is knowledge of your organization, which is exactly why our sessions are built to draw that out of the room rather than import it. It also means we arrive with no history with anyone in the group, which is often the more useful half of being an outsider.

We design for it rather than hoping it sorts itself out. Materials can be prepared in both languages, small-group work is set up so people can discuss in whichever language they think fastest in and report back in either, and the agenda carries enough processing time that nobody is penalized for translating before they speak. The facilitation itself is in English. We’ll ask about the language mix of your group on the first call, because it changes the design rather than being a detail added at the end.

Moncton is usually the fairest choice. It’s roughly central, well served for travel, and genuinely bilingual, which means nobody is arriving somewhere that feels like someone else’s home turf. Fredericton makes sense when the work is tied to provincial government, and Saint John when it’s tied to industry. The point is to choose deliberately, because in a province with three comparable centres, the venue is itself a signal about whose meeting this is.

Leadership teams, boards, and departments across private, public, and non-profit organizations. In New Brunswick that tends to mean energy and refining, forestry and processing, transportation and logistics, information technology and cybersecurity, health administration, post-secondary institutions, municipalities, and provincial departments. Group size ranges from an executive team of eight to a leadership summit of sixty, and the design shifts considerably between those two.

Travel is quoted as a separate line item, so you can see exactly what it adds. Getting a facilitator from the west coast to New Brunswick is a full travel day in each direction, usually connecting through Toronto or Montreal into Moncton or Fredericton. Once we’re in the Maritimes, a second session elsewhere in the same week costs far less than a second trip. Virtual sessions carry no travel cost at all.

Six to eight weeks is comfortable for an in-person session. That window covers a proper discovery call, a session design we build around your goals rather than a template, and any pre-work such as an anonymous survey or interviews. If bilingual materials are needed, add a little more time for preparation and review. Virtual sessions can move faster.

A written summary with the decisions made, the commitments people made out loud, and who owns what by when. Most sessions also produce something structural, such as a plan on a page, a set of priorities the group agreed to, or shared language for how the team communicates. The point is traction on Monday morning rather than a good feeling that fades by Wednesday. We can stay involved afterward if you want support keeping it alive.