About Us | See Meaning

We work with clients to create meaningful dialogue, support knowledge translation, build collaborative plans, and foster social innovation. We have experience with Indigenous organizations, health, development, sustainability, gender justice and women’s rights, LGBTQ2S+and newcomer communities.

But you are the expert! We work with you to provide customized and cost-effective solutions to meet your specific needs.

Meet The Team

We have a unique set of skills and more than 35 years of collective experience.

Corrie Melanson (she/her)

Corrie combines more than 20 years’ facilitation experience with visual tools to facilitate breakthrough conversations that spark engaged action and learning. She excels at designing, facilitating, and evaluating dynamic change processes that build on individual and organizational strengths. Corrie uses proven principles of adult education, cultural safety and engagement practices to build inclusion and enable participation, dialogue and collective decision-making.

In addition to an undergrad in international development and a Master’s in Lifelong Learning., Corrie holds certificates in Adult Education, Facilitation, Appreciative Inquiry, Conflict Resolution, Participatory Evaluation and Graphic Facilitation. In 2011, Corrie co-founded Rainbow Refugees Association of Nova Scotia (RRANS), an organization that supports and privately sponsors LGBTQ+ refugees.

James Neish (he/him)

James is a visual artist, specializing in painting and illustration. Born in Cebu City, Philippines, James was raised and educated in a highly multicultural setting. James graduated magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and organized and facilitated summer art workshops for children of all ages while developing, writing, and illustrating comic book titles for local publication, Popcorn Comics.

James began his career with a team of Content Illustrators for Cleverlearn/Bigfoot Global Solutions Inc., designing English tutorial software for two years while coordinating and participating in art exhibits. For the past 13 years, James has lived in Halifax, Canada.

What People Are Saying

“See Meaning created a comfortable and safe environment for me to learn graphic facilitation tools, techniques, and skills. I feel confident that I can walk away with these skills and begin practice.”

Allison O’Handley

Facillitator

“Thank you again for what was, without a doubt the best Board/Staff Dev’t day we have ever had. It was successful on so many levels it is hard to imagine that we could accomplish so much and yet still have so much fun!”

Marilyn Zinowki

Financial Services Coordinator, Second Story Women’s Centre

“Graphic facilitation helped us move through an immense amount of visioning work in a VERY timely fashion. The large and small group work built momentum, and participants enjoyed drawing their own thoughts. The process resulted in great actions and ideas as well as fabulous graphics as easy to use quick-reference reminders!”

Janelle Frail

Director, Nova Scotia Environmental Network (NSEN)

“The graphics and large scale visuals helped integrate small group report backs, so we could much more effectively discuss issues and reach consensus.”

Kathryn Anderson

Coordinator, Breaking the Silence Network (BTS)