Children and adults collaborate on drawings and notes at a classroom whiteboard.

  • We design gatherings that go beyond panels and presentations — creating space for connection, candour, and shared sense-making.

    • Facilitation & moderation

    • High-level convenings & retreats

    • Policy dialogues & consultations

    • Participatory workshop design

  • We help groups process complexity, surface insights, and turn learning into action.

    • Knowledge capture & synthesis

    • Meeting documentation & outcome reports

    • Learning workshops & reflection sessions

    • Qualitative evaluation & insights

    • Social and behaviour change campaigns & educational resources

  • We translate ideas into language and formats people can understand and use.

    • Strategic communications & narrative development

    • Writing, editing & copyediting

    • Report and knowledge product design

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  • Participants at the Team Europe Democracy Annual Network Meeting 2026 in Brussels

    Facilitating the Team Europe Democracy Annual Meeting

    Brussels, Belgium

    Sage + Spark worked closely with the TED Secretariat to design and then facilitate the 1.5 day event with over 100 attendees. We integrated interactive opportunities and new collaborative methods.

  • Two women from Ghana sitting together and looking at a piece of paper

    Turning project updates into social media that connects

    Online (Canada, Ghana, Kenya, Togo)

    Sage + Spark helped Parliamentary Centre staff turn complex gender-responsive policy work into clearer, more engaging content for different audiences. Through practical training and bilingual tools, 100% found the sessions useful and 83% reported stronger communication skills.

  • Whiteboard covered with colorful handwritten sticky notes in yellow, pink, green, and orange

    Shaping a shared identity after a team merger

    Online

    Sage + Spark designed and facilitated a four-part integration process for a newly merged division. The process shifted mindsets, strengthened connections, surfaced 20+ areas of synergy, and helped the team begin shaping shared ways of working, a common narrative and a new identity.

  • Street art portrait of a woman painted on a weathered concrete wall beside a rusty blue metal post

    Collaborating on priorities to uphold children's rights

    Online

    Sage + Spark supported the Council of Europe Consultation Group on the Children of Ukraine to add a co-creation exercise to their plenary session where 60 members from member States, international organizations, civil society and academia exchanged and articulated priorities.

  • Colorful handwritten workshop posters and sticky notes arranged on a patterned floor, discussing collaboration, diplomacy, and communication.

    Reimagining a global funders roundtable on democracy

    Stockholm, Sweden

    Working closely with the steering committee, Sage + Spark designed a two-day gathering for more than 40 funders that was anything but a typical conference. Creative, participatory formats sparked collaboration from the start. 92% said the interactive format supported meaningful exchange and learning.

  • Group of diverse adults posing for a photo in front of a welcome and sports-themed presentation screen

    Designing with youth coaches, not just for them

    Toronto, Canada

    Together with the Coaching Association of Canada, we brought youth coaches together in Toronto to co-design a practical resource for recognizing and responding to teen dating violence, gender-based violence and microaggressions. Through facilitated activities and real-world scenarios, coaches helped shape the direction of the content, language and tools.

  • Plan International “Time to Act!” toolkit cover featuring illustrated youth activists and the message to end child, early, and forced marriages and unions in Asia-Pacific

    A toolkit for and by youth activists in Asia Pacific

    Online

    Sage + Spark worked with Plan International Asia Pacific and a regional group of youth campaigners to guide a participatory process to create a toolkit o help end child, early and forced marriages and unions.