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2021 Webinars & Tasters

Webinars presented by IAP2 Canada and IAP2 USA are recorded; the recordings and any collateral material are made available for the professional development use of our members and non-members who have paid to take part in the monthly webinars.

IAP2 Tasters are mini-versions of professional development courses. In these webinars, you'll get to engage with a trainer on a given topic, ask questions and make comments, and come away with two or three learning points that you can put to work right away in your own practice. Many of these same trainers present longer versions of these courses, whether ad hoc throughout the year or in online trainings.

January 2021 Taster

Measuring What Matters

Maria deBruijn gives a preview of her course on evaluating P2 processes. Check the IAP2 Events pages for the dates and times of her virtual courses.

Here is Maria’s slide deck and some some additional resources:

Books

Scholarly article

 Other resources




January 2021 Webinar

NAC Encore: "Aistowaípiiyaóp" & "Partnerships Are All About Relationships"

Cooperative efforts between public agencies and Indigenous communities take the stage, as we present two “NAC Encores”. Aistowaípiiyaóp: Walking Together tells the story of how a racial slur led to a cultural reconciliation at Alberta Health Services. Partnerships Are All About Relationships describes how the Government of Canada has been working with ten Indigenous groups, literally from coast to coast to coast, to develop a web-based system for providing maritime data to local communities. 

The PowerPoint deck used in the “Aistowaípiiyaóp: Walking Together” segment can be downloaded here.

Here are some video clips from the Calgary Zone Indigenous Action Plan:

  • AHS president and CEO Dr. Verna Yiu seeks ‘a day of new beginnings’ between AHS and Indigenous Peoples.
  • Joe Old Woman inspired others to focus on what is possible, in every circumstance. His family shares their story of how their Indigenous community partnered with the Bassano Health Centre to fill Joe’s final days with care and compassion in a culturally meaningful way. 
  • This is a story of health planning and co-design in action with Calgary Zone Indigenous communities. Harley and Penny share their journey of the process which is centered on trust, relationship building, shared vision and collaboration. Grounded in ceremony, sacred stories, and a commitment to co-design, they connect with the diversity of urban and rural Indigenous communities to build the Calgary Zone Indigenous Health Action Plan.
  • Tessy began her journey as a “medical mom” at the age of 19. As her daughter fought through the first years of her life, Tessy began to learn the significance of mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health. When she began attending Traditional Ceremonies, everyone around her started seeing a change. She developed strength and confidence she needed to have a quality of life she always desired for her family.
  • This story is about the challenges and sense of displacement Robin has experienced as an Urban Métis woman. She speaks about how traditional healing and wellness practices have been essential for her healing journey, and highlights the need to integrate traditional Indigenous female wellness practices into the health care system.
  • Shaylene shares her story of resilience and overcoming the effects of Intergenerational Trauma and addiction at a young age. Using both therapeutic and traditional practices, she continues on her journey to healing.
  • Hal speaks to the inspirational story of how his parents and family have shared the healing wisdom of Indigenous traditional spirituality and herbal medicine knowledge within a western healthcare system. His story describes their journey as knowledge keepers and respected traditional healers as transcended through generations. It is through humble knowledge translation of indigenous ways of knowing and being that, whole healing is recognized in the partnership shared with western ways.
  • This story follows the experiences of one Indigenous woman as she struggles with the implications of intergenerational trauma throughout her life. It emphasizes the importance of providing culturally appropriate healthcare services to indigenous populations in Canada.
  • Having grown up in a negative world of addiction as a result of intergenerational trauma, G makes the decision to break the cycle. She finds safety, strength and healing by reconnecting with her culture and traditions. As she journeys to sobriety she faces difficult choices.



February 2021 Taster

A Culture of Engagement” + Auditing Your Organization for P2 Success

Anne Carroll and MJ Bull, and Tannis Topolnisky, CP3, combine to give "tastes" of two upcoming courses offered through IAP2 Canada.




February 2021 Webinar #1

NAC Encore: Re-Imagining Communications Approaches Using Art, Design and Super-Heroes!

In this reprise from the 2020 North American Virtual Conference, learn how the Philadelphia Water Department made use of local art and talent -- and the fabulous Water Woman -- to drive public support for infrastructure work, encourage water conservation and promote confidence in the city’s tap water.




February 2021 Webinar #2

2020 IAP2 Core Values Awards- International Organization of the Year: Nova Scotia Health Authority

Committing to engagement in an organization is one thing, but making it part of the organization's DNA is something else. Creating a culture of engagement is the central theme of two upcoming courses, and the Nova Scotia Health Authority won the International Organization of the Year Award for its own success.

Download the PowerPoint deck here.




March 2021 Webinar

2020 IAP2 Core Values Awards Winners

Here’s a chance to learn from the best of the best of 2020 and get inspired to submit your own project this year! Hear from: City of Winnipeg (Indigenous Engagement), Maximum City (Respect for Diversity, Inclusion and Culture); TransLink (Visual Engagement) and JLA Public Involvement (USA - “Respect for Diversity, Inclusion and Culture”).

Here are the slide decks from their presentations:

  • Maximum City, winner of "Respect for Diversity, Inclusion and Culture" (Canada) for KidScore.
  • JLA Public Involvement, winner of "Respect for Diversity, Inclusion and Culture" (USA) for the Old Town Chinatown project in Portland, OR
  • The City of Winnipeg, winner of the award for "Indigenous Engagement", and
  • TransLink, winner of the "Visual Engagement" award for its Transport 2050 project.





March 2021 Taster #1

Trauma Awareness and Self-Care Interventions

Have you been experiencing increased anxiety, depression, low self-esteem or other psychological issues, directly or indirectly related to the COVID-19 pandemic? Do you know people who have? Dr Adriene B. Wright gives a preview of a course aimed at dealing with those symptoms and their root causes. More information on her upcoming course (May 13) can be found here.




March 2021 Bilingual Activity / Activité bilingue

NAC Encore: Experience 8 Unusual Participation Techniques in 2 Hours / Faites l'expérience de 8 techniques participatives

In this special, 2-hour session, Anne Harding CP3, Kim Hyshka CP3, and Hugo Mimee CP3, reprise their highly popular presentation at the 2020 IAP2 North American Virtual Conference. You'll take part in a human lab, where you can fill your toolbox with EIGHT new, innovative and effective public engagement techniques that will help you host better, powerful conversations, achieve objectives and create momentum positive change.

Joignez-vous à nous pour un laboratoire humain où vous aurez l’occasion d’enrichir votre trousse à outils de HUIT nouvelles techniques de participation publique innovantes et efficaces qui vous aideront à animer des discussions plus pertinentes et puissantes, et à créer des changements positifs. Avec : Hugo Mimee CP3, Conseiller stratégique – Participation publique, Anne Harding CP3, Forum Community Relations et Kim Hyshka CP3, Dialogue Partners.




March 2021 Taster #2

Engaging with an online platform for P2 activities

Using a platform (or a site) to engage with your community is a different experience than using social media, live meetings or a simple online survey. In this 45-minute "taste" of her upcoming course, "Engaging With an Online Platform for P2 Activities," Stéphanie Beauregard shows you some best practices for using a platform, how to plan for an online engagement process, and offer some tools for online engagement.

She'll also share her experiences from over the past fifteen years and provide a number of examples.




April 2021 Taster 

Thinking Outside the Scope: Using Systems Thinking to Create Transformational Engagement Strategies

The impacts of a global pandemic, growing environmental awareness, and calls for equality and justice surround us. As engagement professionals it has become critical that we think not only about our individual projects, but about how they fit within and influence the social and global settings that surround them. 

In this Taster Series course, which is derived from a three-hour course on May 13, 2021, we’ll explore Systems Thinking, a way of looking at engagement that can help us see the bigger pictures we’re working within, and perhaps even more importantly contribute to the positive changes we see happening around us. Receive practical tips for applying this way of thinking to your engagement strategies and explore how thinking ‘outside the scope’ might just be your key to creating truly transformational engagement projects. 




April 2021 Webinar 

NAC Encore: Appreciative Inquiry: Empowering Communities Through Collaborative Infrastructure Design

Have you used Appreciative Inquiry (AI) in your practice? This collaborative approach to design and decision-making can bring benefits to both a community and a large organization. In this reprise of a popular session from the 2020 IAP2 North American Virtual Conference, Carrie McIntosh CP3 of the BC Ferry Services Corporation and Darcy Vermeulen of Argyle (formerly Context) will discuss how AI was used in the planning of a new ferry terminal in Horseshoe Bay, BC.

At the heart of a small village, the terminal is a vital community asset and plays an oversized role in the lives of locals and travelers alike. To create a plan that would guide the future development of  the terminal, BC Ferries and Argyle partnered on the design of an appreciative inquiry engagement program that empowered communities to co-create the guiding design principles, and the look and feel for a new terminal building.

Learn how to run your own appreciative inquiry process and empower the public through strategic co-creation. Increasingly infrastructure design is an expert-driven process, yet publics have vital contributions to make. Hear about how our project team approached this challenge and how you can too.  

In this session, you'll learn how to use AI principles in engagement processes and how to involve the public meaningfully in complex processes like infrastructure design.

Here is the slide deck Carrie and Darcy used, and if you would like to continue the conversation with either or both of them, you can reach Carrie McIntosh at Carrie.McIntosh@bcferries.com and Darcy Vermeulen at dvermeulen@argylepr.com.

As of now, we do not offer a course in Appreciative Inquiry per se, but Carrie is training another course, “Thinking Outside the Scope – Using Systems Thinking to Create Transformational Engagement Strategies” (May 13).




April 2021 Taster 

Project Management for P2 Practitioners

You have a P2 project to set up. Do you want to increase your certainty that your process will be a success? This Taster with Carole Spicer PMP, is just the ticket you need!

Project Management is all about the knowledge, tools and techniques to make a project run smoothly, and it's a natural fit with IAP2's Five Steps for Public Participation Planning. Based on Carole's upcoming course, "Project Management for Public Participation Practitioners" (Thursday, May 20), this Taster will provide you with an introduction to project management concepts, a project management framework, and start the discussion of how project managers and public practitioners compliment and need one another to succeed.

Here is Carole's slide deck.




May 2021 Webinar 

NAC Encore: "Participatory Budgeting To Promote Resiliency And Community Healing In Response To Ferguson"

In this reprise of their popular session from the 2020 IAP2 North American Virtual Conference, Paula Southerland and Eboni Hooper of St Louis ReCAST describe how they used Participatory Budgeting (PB) to restore the community in the "Promise Zone" in St Louis MO, in the years that followed the unrest in Ferguson MO.

Here is the PowerPoint presentation, the video they showed early in the webinar.

This is a workbook for Community Delegates.

This booklet outlines what ReCAST is about.

Here are some resources on Participatory Budgeting:

Participatory Budgeting Origins:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/22/brazil-let-its-citizens-make-decisions-about-city-budgets-heres-what-happened/?noredirect=on

New York City Council Participatory Budgeting site & video: http://ideas.pbnyc.org/page/about Video: https://youtu.be/dLrPJghHIzg

A Resource Guide For Participatory Budgeting In Schools: https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/what-is-pb/pb-in-schools/

What everyone should Know about their State's Budget: https://apps.urban.org/features/what-drives-state-spending/

And some background on the situation in Ferguson, MO.

Ferguson Unrest Article from the BBC  

from Newsweek: Six Years After Ferguson Unrest

And this article: A Path Toward Racial Equity

Visit the St Louis ReCAST Website

Join them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RECASTSTL/

And learn more about SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) grants here.

You’re also invited to join the ReCAST team in June for a 3 part webinar series for Organizations to learn ways to Amplify their Impact! To register in advance, click here.

Finally, you can contact Eboni Hooper at ehooper@stlouisco.com, and Paula Southerland at PSoutherland@stlouisco.com.




June 2021 Webinar 

Adapting the IAP2 Spectrum for an Indigenous Context

Jeff Cook and Paula Hay of Beringia Community Planners will present a revised and improved tool for co-creation with Indigenous partners. The work builds on feedback initially received at their presentation at the 2018 Conference in Victoria and revised at the 2020 Virtual Conference. You'll learn more about the ways in which Indigenous peoples are empowering their members and identify tools and techniques you can apply to different scales of engagement. Access the updated Guidebook.




July 2021 Webinar 

Building a Better Future for Everyone Using Transgenerational Thinking Techniques

This highly-interactive session is a reprise of one of the more popular presentations at the 2020 IAP2 North American Virtual Conference. Sheila Shockey, Tyler Waldorf and Erin Esposit of Shockey Consulting Services will discuss the challenge of keeping up with the exponential changes we're seeing in technologies, public policy, the environment, and economy. Decision-making has to be more inclusive of diverse views and difficult conversations about the future are necessary to thrive and for some to survive, especially in light of the recent impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. By introducing global trends with local context, we are changing the conversation so communities can elevate community engagement and build a better future. Through breakout rooms (not recorded) and an open discussion portion, you will learn how to start a conversation using local data, global trends, and transgenerational thinking in your communities. We will use hands-on trend sorting exercises for three types of communities (rural, suburban, urban), resulting in themes about what makes a community special today and what will make it flourish into the future.

Sheila, Erin and Tyler have been kind enough to share their material. Here are links to:

1 – Think Like a Futurist Video

2 – Transgenerational Profiles video

3 – Megatrends Video

4 – Breakout Group Activity instructions

5 – The Activity Handout

If you’d like to stay in touch with our presenters and ask questions, make comments or share your  own experiences, you can contact Erin Esposit – ErinE@shockeyconsulting.com.





August 2021 Webinar 

NAC Encore Beyond Inclusion: 8 Principles for Equitable Public Engagement

Researchers from the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University present the latest in their ongoing work into equity in public participation.

Here is the link to the slide deck from their presentation, including contact information for our three presenters, if you would like to follow up with them.

You can access the full report (in English or French) here.

Here is the Research Paper initially produced for IAP2 Canada: Inclusion and Equity in Public Participation.




October 2021 Bilingual webinar // Webinaire bilingue 

COVID-19 and its impact on P2 // La COVID-19 et ses répercussions sur la P2

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted public participation (P2) practices substantially. This bilingual webinar focuses on a research report produced by Stephanie Yates, PhD, and Hugo Mimee, CP3. Here are:

La pandémie de COVID-19 a eu des impacts concrets sur les pratiques de participation publique (p2). Ce webinaire présente les résultats du rapport de recherche de Stéphanie Yates, PhD et Hugo Mimee, CP3. Voici : 
  • Les bios de Stéphanie Yates et Hugo Mimee 

  • Le rapport de recherche (en français)

  • Les résultats du sondage sur l’état de la profession réalisé en 2020 par le comité de recherche




October 2021 Webinar 

Projects of the Year

If your P2 work involves Indigenous or otherwise marginalized communities, you need to join us for the next Learning Webinar! The Projects of the Year from Canada and the USA will share some amazing insights into how they brought to the table the people who needed to be there -- in two widely-divergent projects. 

Argyle was tasked with helping to work out a governance structure to ensure that the “Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation” -- a $50-million foundation set up to assist survivors of the Canadian action of removing Indigenous children from their families and placing them with “white” families -- serves the people it’s supposed to. The Argyle team travelled from coast to coast to coast, meeting with Indigenous communities, hearing powerful, emotional stories, and finding team members suffered trauma from the experience, themselves. You’ll learn how they handled that delicate balance to co-create the foundation’s governance. 

Co-creation was also the theme of the USA’s top project. The Tualatin Hills (Oregon) (Oregon) Park and Recreation District and its partners set out to re-imagine, design and realize a parks and recreation system that meets the needs of a very diverse population. You’ll learn about the variety of languages they had to work in, and the ways they overcame other age, accessibility and gender barriers. They discovered the importance of paying honoraria to participants, showing how their input -- and hence, their time and effort -- was valuable -- and valued. 

Here are the PowerPoint decks used by our presenters:

And here are the bios of our presenters.

Here are some additional resources:




November 2021 Webinar 

"Cancel Culture" and Communications Planning - Moving Towards an Accountability Mindset

One of the great fears people in public life have these days, is the fear of being “cancelled” -- essentially ostracized on social media and elsewhere for saying or doing something others find offensive. In our November webinar, Kathryn Kolaczek, CEO of Alchemy Communications, reprised her 2021 North American Conference session on moving towards accountability in communications planning.

Here is a bio of our presenter, Kathryn Kolaczek. You can contact her at kathryn@alchemycommunications.ca.

Here is Kathryn’s slide deck, and the video regarding Pepsi commercials is here.





December 2021 Webinar 

NAC Encore - Storytelling: A structure for building a shared story and strategy

"What happened?" and "What are we going to do about it?" -- two questions we often ask these days, as our communities experience harsher impacts of climate change, social justice strife and an uncertain future. 

In this reprise of her session at the 2021 IAP2 North American Virtual Conference, Cathy Smith looks at storytelling as a way to move from individual perspectives to a collective perspective, as well as to help communities organize information, so that it can be used to develop a shared understanding of challenges, consequences and steps to create new realities.

Join us to learn more about this intensely personal approach to engagement, and bring your own experiences, questions, comments ... and stories.

Here is Cathy’s slide deck.

Here is a bio of Cathy, and if you would like to contact her to discuss this further, you can reach her at Catherine.Smith@cityworks.biz






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