Reducing Friction. Strengthening Collaboration.
An experiential approach to addressing the unspoken dynamics
that shape communication, trust, and performance.
The Relational Dynamics Framework™️
This workshop focuses on making the invisible social contracts inside organizations visible; by naming the unspoken expectations, roles, and pressures that quietly shape how people connect or disconnect. Teams don’t usually struggle because of a lack of skill, but from unclear roles, uneven responsibility, and unexamined patterns of interaction.
Using an emotional and relational lens, this workshop centers on how people actually experience one another at work. This workshop goes beyond relying simply on vocabulary, systemic frameworks, or historical overviews. This approach helps individuals to understand their own communication patterns, assumptions, stress responses, and relational habits, then explore how these show up in real time when interacting with people of both different and similar identities. By working at the level of lived interaction rather than ideology or terminology, this approach avoids being prescriptive or performative, and allows teams to engage more fully in an authentic and relational way.
The result is practical insight into why friction arises, how it’s maintained, and what supports more respectful and effective collaboration. This leads to clearer teamwork, stronger collective vision, and more sustainable productivity.
Outcomes organizations can expect:
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Reduce friction and improve how teams actually work together
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Clarify unspoken roles, expectations, and decision-making norms
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Support respectful engagement and sustainable collaboration across differences
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Strengthen trust and accountability without requiring agreement or uniformity
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Normalize productive tension while lowering unnecessary interpersonal strain
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Restore focus on shared outcomes rather than unresolved relational strain
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Enhance team coherence, follow-through, and execution
About the Facilitator:
Jenni Graham is a facilitator and educator whose work is shaped by decades of experience across mental health, higher education, community-based advocacy, and group facilitation. Her background includes clinical practice as an art therapist, national consulting, adjunct university teaching, and public speaking across academic, nonprofit, and organizational settings. She holds a master’s degree in Art Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt Institute.
Over the course of her career, Jenni has worked in direct relationship with individuals and groups navigating conflict, identity, power, trauma, and systemic pressure. She has taught as adjunct faculty at Drexel University, Temple University, and Jefferson University, has served as an invited guest lecturer at universities nationally, and organized large-scale conversations as the founder and host of “The Crossroads of Trauma and Oppressive Systems” conference.
Her speaking work includes keynote presentations, including being the first woman to keynote Pratt Institute’s MLK Legacy Week.
Over time Jenni’s work has moved beyond, while remaining in dialogue with, social constructs toward a deeper focus on how people actually show up in relationships under pressure, in difference, and inside nuanced systems. Her facilitation is grounded in the capacity to hold both the complexity of social identity differences and our shared humanity without allowing one to override or erase the other. She works through an experiential development lens which is an embodied experience-based approach to professional learning. This approach uses creative and somatic processes to bypass defensiveness and performance, while supporting accountability and connection with both self and others.
Jenni brings an emotional and relational lens to organizational work informed by years of proximity to the patterns that shape collaboration, trust, performance, and protection. This perspective allows her to move beyond abstract models to catalyze self-awareness around communication, responsibility, and fear without participants being pathologized, pressured to conform, or reliant on performative frameworks.
Jenni is the creator of the Relational Dynamics Framework™️, an experiential approach based on lived interaction rather than ideology or terminology. Her facilitation style is engaging, structured, attuned, and human-centered to support teams in metabolizing tension, increasing clarity, and working together more effectively in environments where the unspoken often matters most.
Request details and availability for this limited offering.
This workshop is designed for groups of up to 50 participants. Organizations with larger teams may book multiple sessions.
This workshop is offered for a finite run of 50 sessions.
0 of 50 completed | 50 remaining
Questions? Contact: Jenni@jennisgems.com
