How We Can Work Together
Consulting
Every organization has its own history, strengths, and opportunities. Each consulting engagement is customized to the organization's goals and desired outcomes.
CJ Connections can support organizations and communities to:
Strengthen leadership, collaboration, and communication.
Build healthier workplace cultures that support trust, teamwork, and employee well-being.
Design and facilitate meetings, retreats, learning collaboratives, and community conversations.
Develop accessible training, curricula, tools, and other learning resources.
Create more inclusive ways to engage communities, partners, and the people most affected by decisions.
Support public health and community health initiatives through facilitation, technical assistance, policy translation, and systems thinking.
Recognize domination-based patterns and develop practical pathways toward partnership-based organizational and systems change.
Engagements may be short-term or extend over time and are available virtually or in person.
Workshops and Training
CJ Connections workshops and training are interactive learning experiences that help participants recognize hidden patterns, strengthen relationships, and put partnership into practice.
Every experience is customized to the goals, audience, and learning objectives of the group. The featured workshops below illustrate some of the ways CJ Connections helps organizations and communities put partnership into practice.
Featured Workplace Workshop
Featured Community Workshop
Everyday Partnership Workshop
Participants practice how to:
● Understand what is driving disconnection in their lives and relationships
● Recognize the patterns that keep repeating—even when they don't want them to
● Stay grounded and clear when emotions rise.
● Communicate in ways that create connection, trust, and understanding
The Patterns Nobody Talks About
Participants practice how to:
● Notice patterns that affect workplace stress, communication, and performance
● Pause before reacting under pressure
● Talk through hard things without blame
● Build healthier ways of working that support trust, teamwork, and employee satisfaction
Facilitation and Discussion Groups
Facilitate conversations create space for people to explore important questions together while strengthening their ability to navigate uncertainty, build relationships, and create positive change.
Each process is designed around the interests and goals of the group. Some discussion groups use carefully selected episodes from The Power of Partnership Podcast - produced and hosted by Cherri Jacobs Pruitt in partnership with Riane Eisler and her team at the Center for Partnership System. All groups include time for reflection and practice integrating new concepts and skills.
Featured Discussion Series
Making Sense of This Moment
A Three-Part Power of Partnership Podcast Discussion Series
We are living through a time of major disruption and asking hard questions:
● How did we get here?
● How do we remain grounded and connected?
● What can we do to help create something better?
Participants gather to view three selected podcast episode to deeply explore each of these questions using Riane Eisler's domination-partnership social lens. Virtual and in-person options are available.
Speaking Engagements
Thought-provoking presentations to help audiences understand make sense of today's challenges by revealing the hidden patterns beneath them and offering practical tools for strengthening relationships, organizations, and communities. Every presentation is customized to the audience, organization, and event.
The featured presentation below illustrates one of the ways CJ Connections helps audiences explore partnership in practical and engaging ways.
Featured Presentation
Why Compassion Breaks Down Under Pressure
Most of us have experienced moments when compassion slips away—a difficult conversation, a tense meeting, or a relationship that suddenly feels harder than it should.
In this presentation, CJ explores why that happens—not as a personal failing, but as a biological and cultural response to the conditions we're living in. Drawing on Dr. Riane Eisler's Cultural Transformation Theory, participants discover the domination–partnership lens, learn the four-step Partnership Pause, and leave with practical tools for strengthening connection—even during challenging moments.
