Shaping Our Health: Community-Based Strategic Alignment Session

This session helps your organization clarify its long-term direction, establish core priorities, and balance daily operational responsibilities with your overarching vision. By aligning funding and resources with community-driven goals, we help build resilient structures capable of delivering high-quality, continuous services.

Purpose: 

This proposal outlines a customized Strategic Planning Session designed specifically for your community’s leadership and executive team. Our objective is to facilitate an internal planning process that empowers your team to co-author a practical, comprehensive Strategic Plan. This process and final document will deliver:

• A clear definition of your community’s long-term vision, mission, and core values;
• Defined strategic priorities that protect and advance community interests;
• An internal and external risk assessment to anticipate and navigate challenges;
• A resource and funding alignment framework centered on long-term sustainability;
• Meaningful progress and success indicators defined by your community.

Once finalized, this Strategic Plan serves as a stable foundation for the annual operational plans of all departments, programs, and services under your authority.

Our Approach: 

Praxis Forum utilizes a Complex Adaptive Systems approach. We view your organization not as a rigid, static hierarchy, but as a living, evolving network rooted in relationship-building and community resilience. This methodology values adaptability, historical context, and continuous growth, ensuring your governance structures remain responsive to the community's natural rhythm and changing environments.

Strategic Plan Objectives: 

1. Chart long-term community and organizational direction;
2. Identify priority goals for sustainable growth and community well-being;
3. Align financial, human, and material resources with your core vision;
4. Strengthen local decision-making using adaptive strategic tools;
5. Establish community-centered indicators to track and celebrate progress;
6. Create an ongoing framework to review, update, and communicate the plan openly.

Intended Public and Process:

Audience: All levels of Government—Local, Municipal and Tribal Governments. 

Language: This workshop is open to all communities in both English and French. If a community prefers to use an Indigenous or other native language, interpretation or translation services can be arranged.

Duration: 2 Day Work Session—Including breakout and interactive sessions.

Post-Session Consultation: Consultations are optional and at your discretion. 

Financial Overview:

Professional Facilitation Fee: $1,890 CAD per day.

Travel expenses: The ticket price does not include standard business travel, meals, and lodging expenses for the facilitator(s) during preparation and on-site delivery.

Cancellation Timeline and Fees:

30+ Days Notice: Full refund minus a $150 administration fee.

15 to 29 Days Notice: 50% refund, or a 75% credit toward a future workshop.

14 Days or Fewer Notice: Non-refundable. No credits will be issued.