Think Clearly. Work Collaboratively. Make Progress Together.
Achieve your biggest goals with guided meeting facilitation and training from Rooted In Process
Meaningful Engagement Is Rooted In Process
When your group has an effective process to think together, you can build more informed solutions for the communities and environments you care about. Rooted in Process facilitates processes that bring people together, improve collaboration and communication, and spark more inspiration, innovation, and forward progress.
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Build a Better Tomorrow Together
Develop better conversations between teams, organizations, and communities. By incorporating productive dialog and active listening, we help to build stronger understanding, goal setting, and strategic planning.
Community Engagement
Bring people together around what matters most.We create meaningful, human-centered spaces for communities to connect, learn, and collaborate. These engagements build trust, strengthen relationships, and generate the alignment and momentum needed to move forward.
Hire Us →Strategic Planning & Meeting Facilitation
Align people. Build buy-in. Move into action.We design and facilitate planning processes that engage all stakeholders, surface diverse perspectives, and create shared direction. Whether for a strategy, initiative, or program, these workshops turn input into clear, actionable plans people are committed to.
Hire Us →Facilitation Training
Build the skills to lead better conversations.Through the Technology of Participation (ToP®) methods, develop practical facilitation skills that improve how your organization communicates, collaborates, and makes decisions. Because facilitation isn’t just a skill, it’s a leadership capacity.
Offered in partnership with FloToP Facilitators, a growing network strengthening facilitation capacity across Florida, providing not only training, but opportunities to practice, learn, and grow through a community of peers.
Hire Us →Team & Leadership Development
Unite teams with better shared understanding.Using Everything DiSC® and customized retreats, we support teams and leaders in improving communication, collaboration, and culture, so they can work more effectively together and lead with confidence.
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We provide the container, the conversation, ideas, and data flow.
Every engagement is designed — here's the rhythm we move through together.
Discover
Interviews and listening to understand your people, context, and goals.
Design
We craft the structure — questions, flow, and space — not just an agenda.
Facilitate
We hold the room so every voice is heard and the work keeps moving.
Harvest
Decisions, themes, and next steps captured into clear, usable outputs.
Move forward
You leave with alignment, momentum, and a path into action.
Meeting Facilitation and Team Training Rooted in Community and Nature
Jess Stempien is the founder of Rooted in Process and a meeting facilitator who helps groups get unstuck, get aligned, and get moving.
With roots in environmental work, leadership development, and community engagement, Jess designs processes that bring people together to listen deeply, think collaboratively, and move forward with purpose. Her approach is grounded in Technology of Participation (ToP®) methods and the principles of the University of Florida’s Natural Resource Leadership Institute.
Jess has worked with agencies, nonprofits, universities, and communities across the country on issues such as conservation, public health, green infrastructure, and other environmental and social issues.
Learn MoreWhat Clients are Saying
“Jess got us thinking in different ways while keeping our attention throughout the process.”
“Jess and her team made the experience fun and worthwhile.”
“The process enabled real structure and focus for launch.”
“Jess is like the glue that holds us all together.”
Untangle The Path to Your Goals
Build collaboration and participation within your organization or initiative. Schedule a discovery call to see how meeting facilitation and training can help your group grow roots together.