About David Sibbet

Founder of The Grove 

David Sibbet began his practice as an organizational consultant and process and information designer in 1977. He is retired from active graphic facilitation and shifting his focus to Coaching for Creativity (see beow). He frequently lends his facilitation and design expertise to Grove project teams in online settings.

David is currently active with The Grove's Global Learning & Exchange Network and with Grove Tools, Inc. He is author of John Wiley & Sons’ four-volume Visual Facilitation Series, as well as many of The Grove’s leading-edge group-process tools and models for facilitation, team leadership and organizational transformation, he has a passion for sharing good tools. 

Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., David's long time colleague and spouse, is now CEO of The Grove. They co-authored Visual Consulting and continue to collaborate on new tools and methods that can support realizing visionary futures.

David’s practice was informed by eight years of public affairs leadership development with the Coro Northern California Center for Civic Leadership. He holds a master’s degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a B.A. in literature from Occidental College. From 1976-1982 he was a student of Arthur M. Young at the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley. In 2013, he was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Organizational Development Network. He is more recently  graduate for Thomas Hübl's Timeless Wisdom Training and now completing his Jungian Deep Coaching Certification training with Creative Minds.

David currently works from his home studio in Petaluma, California, where he does coaching and visioning work. He is president of California Poets in the Schools and on the board of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners Institute.