Training can leave you with skills long after a consultancy ends. Outside facilitators can increase the flow of ideas and communication among your staff and board. Facilitation takes many forms, depending on your needs: we lead meetings; present findings to boards; run retreats and trainings for artists; and regularly speak at national arts conferences. The Laboratory for Arts Evaluation™ provides customized evaluation training for small and large groups. Just a few of our past engagements in key service areas are listed below.

• Grants and Gifts: Asking for Money from Organizations and Individuals (2007). Arts Midwest Annual Conference.
• Funding Trends in the Arts (2004). Session at the National Performing Arts Conference with the Wallace Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Chicago Community Trust.
• Individual Giving Workshops for the Dance Working Group, an annual meeting at the Arts Presenters Conference (2006), and for the Young Performers Career Advancement Program at Arts Presenters (2006), as well as the NPN Annual Meeting (2004).
• Grantwriting Workshops. Taught grantwriting and foundation relations for administrators that ranged from senior management to the novice, for Arts Presenters (Annual Conference 2005), American University's graduate program in arts management, the Smithsonian Institution and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington (1998-2000).
• Workshops on Foundation Relations. Trained development staff from numerous Smithsonian Institution museums and presented as a guest lecturer at American University about the role that building and maintaining relationships with foundations plays in fulfilling an institution's mission.
• The New York Dance Satellites in Action (2002). New York State Dance Force. Programmed and moderated this discussion about the formation and strategic planning efforts of this consortium of community-based dance presenters.
• Board Retreats. Facilitated numerous retreats to build consensus and capacity for national and local organizations such as the National Performance Network (LA), National Association of Artist Organizations, Urban Bush Women (NY), Washington Shakespeare Company (VA), Gina Gibney Dance (NY), and Dance Today (MN).

• NCCI: From the Campus to the Real World and Back Again (2006). This series of workshops in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles were based on the book of the same name (which was edited by Callahan) and designed to assist mid-career artists, who are interested in returning to colleges for residencies and permanent positions, as well as to guide graduating students entering an increasingly challenging professional world.
• Getting Your Foot in the College Door: Some Thoughts on Colleges and How They Hire with Dance/USA On Tour (2006-07), New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and at Dance Theater Workshop (2007, 2008).
• NCCI Forums: Workshop on Artist-College Collaborations: New Models for Planning, Negotiation and Curriculum (2004). Dance/USA, Biennial Roundtable. Led this dialogue with artists and college faculty on key issues to consider when planning residencies with artists; contracting faculty; and developing curriculum.
• The Chicago Dance Initiative: A Story of Partnership between Dance Leaders and Funders (2002 to Present). Dance/USA biannual council meeting. Reflections on the success of this collaboration that was spearheaded by the Chicago Community Trust, and serves the dance community in Chicago.
• National College Choreography Initiative (2000 to Present). Regularly speaks to groups about the development and success of this initiative to serve the past, present and future generations of dance artists.
• Making Work at School: Forums on Artist-College Collaboration (2002-2003). Programs and facilitates this ongoing series of national forums in order to increase the quality of collaboration between artists and universities.
• Dance and the Health Insurance Dilemma (1996). Provided arts administrators with an understanding of and alternatives for dealing with this crisis in health care provision for the arts field.

• Individualized Training. Instructs artists and administrators in participatory evaluation at numerous organizations across the country, including: the Washington Ballet (DC); Southern Arts Federation (Atlanta); Creative Campus Initiative at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa); University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee); Urban Bush Women Summer Institute (New York).
• Created The Laboratory for Arts Evaluation™ to allow clients to customize their own evaluation and training services.
• Creative Evaluation: Process, Issues and Options (2008) and Research & Evaluation Tools and Best Practices: A Training Session for Arts-In-Healthcare Practitioners (2007) for the Society for the Arts in Healthcare's Annual International Conference.
• Mapping Vision and Measuring Success: An Interactive Workshop on Evaluation Performing Arts Exchange Conference (2006) and National Arts Leadership Institute (2005).
• Program Evaluation for Arts Organizations (2000, 2001, and 2002). Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Winter Institute. With Innovation Network, developed and instructed the curriculum for this annual professional development seminar for senior management.
• On Our Own Terms: Alternative Approaches to Documentation and Evaluation (2002). National Performance Network's Annual Meeting. Joined this panel of experts, who are initiating efforts to evaluate community-based arts projects according to appropriate, nontraditional measures of success.
• Change for the Better: Documenting and Evaluating Our Success (2000-2001) Dance/USA. Led numerous sessions at their council meetings and biannual national roundtables on participatory evaluation.
• Walking our Talk: From Reflection to Action. Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers conference (2002). Conducted training at two sessions: "Measure for Measure: Getting the Most Out of Evaluation" and "From Theories of Change to Habits of Mind: Building the Evaluation Toolkit."

• Develops and facilitates board retreats and management meetings in order to improve organizational skills and communication, such as the Local Arts Leadership Initiative and the Education Advisory Council in Washington, DC and Arts International in New York.
• Facilitates issue-based local and national gatherings for the performing arts field, such as retreats for choreographers and dancers at Dance Theater Workshop and Jacob's Pillow and for administrators at the International Performance Lab.