Testimonials

“I can’t recommend saying yes to any of Christine’s offerings enough! My personal experience with Christine having participated in many of her workshops over the last 5 years have been soul changing. I think I would describe it as every time I get Christine time I am transported to a deeper inner me.” Tania Lo, CEO,Tandem Innovation Group.

“Christine builds relationship containers of transformation, innovation, deep truth and witnessing. She helps groups reveal what’s emerging in their underlying systems, and all the joy of them.” Dr. Mark Jones, Sunyata Leadership Institute, Goddard College

“Christine is an incredible facilitator, and ones of the staunchest Indigenous Allies I know of. She is able to go deep and get to the root of complex systems and places most people shy away from. Her drive and determination, held together with a generosity of spirit and open heart, make her a force of conscious change. I would have no reservation in recommending her work.” Bradley Shende Founding Partner, Indigenext

“The best facilitator we’ve ever worked with. Christine has facilitated breakthroughs we didn’t think were possible. She’s gotten everyone to the same table, and gotten consensus. She’s simply the best.” Gerald Skookum Carcross Tagish First Nation, Director of Indigenous Engagement, Yukon Land Relationship Commission, on sovereign First Nation – Federal – Territorial Intergovernmental Land Use Planning

“Christine’s intuitive approach guided our team on a journey to develop a shared vision for our organization. She draws on a large wealth of knowledge and is informed by many different ways of knowing. Christine helps to make complex things simple and leads through her heart. Thanks for the creativity!” Heather Hay Acting ED, Foundation for Social Change, Past VP Vancouver Coastal Health

“I love watching Christine facilitate. Its like watching art.” Kung Jaadee, Haida storyteller and educator

“Christine is a strong Ally and a co-facilitator with whom I have worked for the last 4 years. It is rare to come across a white facilitator who can work authentically and be in synchronicity with an experienced racialized facilitator. She has done deep work on her race privilege and is creative, funny, open, compassionate and dives deep into equity work. She is especially gifted with embodiment coaching which transcends all boundaries.” Priti Gami Shah Drishti Consulting, Past President, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women.

“Christine’s facilitation brought clarity to our diverse participants’ needs, and our task to create collaboration for seniors’ health systems. She tapped into the energy for new kinds of relationships, solid consensus and readiness for action across BC.” Marcy Cohen, lead, Raising the Profile Project

I was fortunate to receive professional development training co-facilitated and designed by Christine called Limitless: Allyship Continuum to Collaboration. Christine’s coaching tools were transformational. Her knowledge, lived experience, creative approach and clarity were thoroughly engaging. Christine turned a weighty topic into something extraordinarily engaging and accessible for the room. In attendance was an extremely diverse group of learners, with multiple cultural experiences and vastly different organizational backgrounds, yet Christine adeptly facilitated the varying knowledge levels. The entire series have been some of the best professional development teachings I have ever received. I look forward to working with her again!

Tara Flynn,
Civic and Community Engagement, SFU Office of Community Engagement.

“Christine Spinder is an excellent mentor.” Ruth Alfred, Namgis Elder, Indigenous Knowledge Keeper, Vancouver Coastal Health, and Co-Founder, the Restoring Collective

“Christine Spinder is a master practitioner crafting beautiful ways forward in these challenging times. She is both visionary and grounded, an all too rare combination. Scratch and you will find more treasures, from her stunning intuition, brilliant innovative strategy, and collaboration-heightening facilitation, to her national spokesperson fluency, iconic textile art and passionate sharing from her decades of somatic embodiment cultivation. Christine lives out loud, and she is dedicated to supporting emergence of what’s best in us, individually and collectively.” Kate Sutherland, Co-Founding Partner, Emerge Collab

“Field Shift shone a light on the invisible elements of group work that are often felt but not explored. Christine brings deep experience and skill in facilitation, and provides a space for everyone to speak to and experience the unexplainable. This work has encouraged me to expand my senses in service of better dialogue and inclusive outcomes.” Virginia Cullen, CAO Municipality of Whistler

“One of the best facilitators I’ve ever worked with, and I’m over 20 years as a Health Director. Everybody in the room, all 120 of us, were engaged, connected, and saying Yes.” Brenda, Interior Health Director, Raising the Profile Project.

“My first experience of a human murmuration.” Donna Morton, CEO Clean Finance

“I’ve attended hundreds of diversity workshops. Christine’s was different. I felt the shifts as they happened inside me. It was physical, something I hadn’t tapped into before, a conscious awareness. And it feels great, more real and so much more clear.” Kelly Markus
Diversity Engagement Workshop for United Way BC Staff Retreat.