Facilitation means “to make easier”. By hosting meaningful conversations that incorporate diverse perspectives, the Wellspring approach reduces conflict and identifies common objectives and shared strategies. Powerful partnerships are the result..

Participatory Planning and Governance stresses that citizens and local communities are best able to define, analyze and prioritize their own needs and capacities. Our methods value a wide variety of local knowledge and abilities, and connect those resources effectively to a pressing problem, project or policy initiative.

Dialogue Methods allow our different perspectives on complex issues to become a strength, rather than a problem. By not taking sides in a debate, and by developing a centre we can agree on, true dialogue leads to new understandings and broad support.

Social Inclusion is the condition of being engaged meaningfully in society’s opportunities (be they social, economic, political, or cultural). Recognizing the different assets that everyone brings to the table can transform relationships and bring hope.

Genuine Sustainability means responding substantively to the fact that human social and economic activity are damaging the bio-productive capacity and integrity of the natural systems upon which all life depends.