Fundamentals of P2 and Engagement - Hosted by IAP2 Canada

Prerequisite for Designing P2 and Engagement and Applying Methods (for Level 1 practitioners) - IAP2 Canada Certificate in Public Participation. 
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The focus of this course is on understanding and applying the practices of meaningful and effective public participation (P2). The training explores principles, concepts and best practices, and how to design and apply this knowledge to your public participation and engagement work.

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Course Objectives: 

By the end of this course, participants will be able to: 

• Define public participation and engagement and related terms and what makes it unique
• Identify what makes public participation and engagement meaningful 
• Reflect on the benefits, risks and myths related to public participation and engagement
• Identify and discuss IAP2 five core foundations in their application to public participation and engagement work 
• Identify the role that values (seven core values) play in public participation and engagement work and the leadership attributes that will serve them as they practice 
• Understand the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation and rationale for the increasing intensity as decision impacts  
• Reflect on and apply ethical leadership actions and abilities to public participation and engagement situations 
• Apply the Profiles of public participation and engagement model to public participation and engagement and explore organization-led and community-led engagement and how that impacts the engagement process 
• Reflect on and apply the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion and explore the role of power and influence and its impacts on the approach to public participation and engagement
• Apply the IAP2 spectrum to public participation and engagement situations and practice 
• Explore the Practice Framework (design, plan, implement, learn) as a tool for effective planning and process, and assess the quality of the process  

Target Audience: 

• New practitioners beginning their journey in engagement 
• Anyone working in the field or a related field who wants to understand and apply the fundamentals of meaningful and effective public participation and engagement practice

Course Delivery:

Online - Trainer Led | Hosted by IAP2 Canada.

Prerequisite:

There is no prerequisite.

Our Licensed Trainer:

Mary Moreland has been a bilingual trainer for IAP2’s certificate courses since 2005. A former career public servant with Canada’s federal government, she has more than 20 years of experience contributing to national initiatives such as the creation of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee; the National Innovation and Learning Engagement Strategy; and coordinating outreach activities at the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal.

Important to Mary’s evolving public participation practice has been adapting Design Thinking engagement methods to regulatory, program and policy projects, with a particular emphasis on how to improve the delivery of services to Canadians, residents, or industry. To cap off this introduction, an important part of IAP2’s training for Mary is the opportunity to learn from participants as they share their experiences or reflect on how they might improve their engagements from what they are learning from their IAP2 courses and from their peers.