About 2Thunder
2Thunder Consulting is a specialized firm providing an excellent range of supports that can contribute to organizational wellness or personal healing. It is significant that the name, “2Thunder” was arrived at through a spiritual experience. C.E.O. and President Dennis Whitford was gifted with this name by an indigenous elder who was inspired by his seeing two lightning bolts striking the ground at the same time when he was travelling to his home in southern Alberta during a severe summer storm. As the company name was derived from a spiritual and sacred experience, all of the company’s activities must carried out and governed with the highest degree of honesty and integrity.
Company owner Dennis Whitford completed the Master of Social Work program at the University of Calgary in 1994. He is a registered Social Worker with the Alberta College of Social Workers. Dennis worked for 27 years in Human Services with the Government of Alberta. He started at an entry level position and became Senior Manager and Senior Advisory Aboriginal Services. During Dennis’s numerous years working in this field he has amassed an extensive list of contacts that can be used to ensure that your needs are served. He is an accomplished reasearcher, conference speaker, community development worker and community organizer.
Dennis’s experience both on and off the job along with his continued formal training has placed him in a unique position to provide facilitation, counselling, and traditional healing to organizations and individuals who wish to apply or experience these supports. He has and continues to provide his time to local projects and initiatives that support and demonstrate his relationship with both the Aboriginal Community and the Community at large.
Life Giving Forces
The AI process is intended to provide what you want more of, as an individual or organization. AI processes include questions similar to: "When have our customers been really happy and satisfied with our company? What are we doing that we can learn from and build on? What images and ideas come from these success stories that lead us in new ways to increase customer satisfaction?" (Jane Magruder)
Although AI is not strictly a conflict resolution or mediation method, the AI process contributes to group and individual insights that may reduce or eliminate the need to hire an expensive conflict resolution or mediation specialist/contractor.
The AI philosophy and processes are inherently geared toward team building. AI will provide strategies that are "constructed with relationships. Without relationships there would be little meaning . . . . Through creative care for relationships, the destructive potentials of conflict may be reduced or transformed". (The Taos Institute in Appreciative Inquiry, Change at the Speed of Imagination).
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Contact Information
- Office: (403) 933-0138
- Mobile: (780) 618-5238
- Email: DennisWhitford04@gmail.com
- Office Hours: Mon-Fri: 9-5 pm Sat: 10-4 pm Sun: Closed
- Address: 606 Anderson Crescent NW, Turner Valley, AB T0L 3A0