Stakeholder Engagement:
Designing Processes that Instill Citizen Confidence
| Date: | May 1 , 2008 |
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| Time: | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. |
| Location: | MARC Conference Center (map) |
| Fee: | $1,500 per team of four $400 per individual |
What You'll Learn:
Effectively engaging stakeholders in public decision making processes is a complicated craft. Successful outcomes require creative thinking, a willingness to interact, and sensitivity to how stakeholders prefer to communicate. Although some aspects of this are a matter of personality and natural tendency, particular models, tools and strategies offer a framework to assess planning challenges and guide the development of the “right approach” – be it consensus-building, public input, dialogue and deliberation, information sharing or public relations.
Through the joint efforts of two of the nation’s most respected consensus-building and dispute resolution organizations -- RESOLVE of Washington, D.C. and SRA International of Arlington, Virginia – the Mid-America Regional Council is able to sponsor this unique workshop for Kansas City area planners.
Stakeholder Engagement is a one-day interactive workshop specially designed for Kansas City-area public officials and consultants with hands-on experience in and responsibility for public involvement processes. The session will focus on what distinguishes routine public involvement efforts from those that ensure constituent confidence and build a sense of connection and community. Workshop participants will gain the ability to select from among 5 specific approaches for navigating stakeholder engagement to make the journey enjoyable and worthwhile for all concerned; an awareness of obstacles that can sink a process, & anchoring concepts to keep stakeholder processes from drifting off-course; resources with which you can pursue these topics in more depth if you wish; and a network of local colleagues to continue to learn with into the future.
View the PDF flier (2.1MB) for more information.
Workshop goals:
- To provide a safe forum for reflecting on what has worked well and not so well in stakeholder engagement in the Kansas City area
- To stimulate participants’ creativity about new approaches they might want to try
- To strengthen participants’ confidence in their capacities to use stakeholder engagement processes to chart a course to more useful and durable plans and project designs
Instructor:
Marci DuPraw is a nationally known facilitator and mediator with 20 years of experience in public involvement, consensus-building, dispute resolution, training, and coaching. Currently a senior member of SRA International’s Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Practice, DuPraw served as director of RESOLVE’s Washington, DC office during development of this workshop. DuPraw holds a Masters in Natural Resource Policy, Economics, and Management from the University of Michigan, as well as a Bachelor’s in Environmental Studies from the University of California. She has worked all over the United States, as well as in Russia, Estonia, and Cyprus, and has worked on five cases involving Indian Nations. She is a member of the International Association for Public Participation and the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and has recently been elected to the Leadership Council of ACR’s Environment and Public Policy Sector.
