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Opening Plenary 

The Future of P2 in Complex Times: Does our new normal present ’Mountains of Opportunity’? with Dominique Ollivier - Présidente, Office de consultation publique de Montréal & Dr. C.L. Bohannon - Director, Community Engagement Lab, Virginia Tech.

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Sessions

Wide and Fast: P2 for Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Response with Andrea Winkler, Amanda Mitchell

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Partnerships are all about relationships: the path towards deeper engagement and community empowerment with Nathalie Filion, Marie-Pierre Parenteau, Tyrone Raddi

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Planning for and Implementing Big Engagement with a Small Staff with Karlyn Tilley Margolis

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Community vs. corporate priorities in P2: An impossible balancing act? with Carrie McIntosh

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Sponsor Panel: Engaging amidst COVID-19: Online tools you need to engage, track and report with Ward Ferguson, Melissa Gustas, Matt Pesce, Tim Booker, Geordie Adams,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Workshops

Beyond Inclusion: Eight Principles for Equitable Public Engagement with Elodie Jacquet, Nicole Armos, Grace Lee

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Indigenous Engagement Bootcamp with Teneya Gwin, Michelle Fournie, Annie Korver, Anne Harding

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Morning Sessions

Negotiation Skills for Public Participation Practitioners with Robyn Jacobsen

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“Make sure everyone is happy at the end”: Face-palm inducing P2 goals and where to go from there with Brett Andronak, Neil Bailey, Natalie Geddes, Morgan Vespa

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Artificially Interesting: The Perils of Competing for Public Attention with Kalin Schmoldt

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Using Community Research and initiatives to Support P2 Goals: Tap water Promotion in Philadelphia with Hailey Stern, Maura Jarvis

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Finding the missing middle: Lessons learned from a referendum interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic with Kristen Rodrigue, Brynn Perszon

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Advisory Committees 2.0: Taking advisory groups to the next level with Maura Beaton, Richard Delaney

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Afternoon Sessions

Adapting the IAP2 Spectrum for an Indigenous Context: Skills, Tools and Competencies for Engagement Practitioners with Jeff Cook, Paula Hay

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Appreciative inquiry: empowering communities through collaborative infrastructure design with Darcy Vermeulen, Carrie McIntosh

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I Got Engaged: A Participant’s Perspective with Erin Joslin

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Bilingual P2? Mais oui! with Nicole O. Melanson

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Building resilience: A reflection with John Poynton, Cathy Smith

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Experience 5 unusual participatory techniques in 90 minutes / Faites l’expérience de 5 techniques participatives inhabituelles with Anne Harding, Kim Hyshka and Hugo Mimee

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Indigenous Engagement – Aistowaípiiyaóp: Walking Together with Janine Sakatch, Harley Crowshoe

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Equity and Inclusion as the New Normal with Dejana Knih, Dylan Jones, Lyndia Peters, Martin Kemp, Alla Guelber

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Creative Solutions for Big Problems – Innovative Engagement for Mega Projects with Tim Holmes, Robyn Austin, Cheryl Tam

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Building trust in the public arena through brave, honest conversations© with Stephani Roy McCallum

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

Workshops

Under the engagement cover: Moving through failure, resilience and recovery with Geoff Wilson, Heather Thiessen, Stephani Roy McCallum, Mireille Brosseau

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Morning Sessions

Soutenir l’engagement lors de longues consultations en 10 questions/10 Questions for Maintaining and Supporting Engagement during Long Consultation Processes with Anik Pouliot, Guy Grenier 

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The Things Kids Say: Elevating Child/Youth Voices in Government

Sarah Huntley, Mara Mintzer

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So, we’ve declared a climate emergency… now what?

John Richardson, Ben West

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Civic Tech for Community Organizing

Christine Edwards

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Building a Better Future for Everyone Using Transgenerational Thinking Techniques

Sheila Shockey, Tyler Waldorf, Erin Dougherty

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Middle Plenary

The Role of P2 in Challenging Racism: Taking Collective and Individual Action with Dr. Pam Palmater, Cicely Blain

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Workshops

From falling short to failing forward: Impact strategies for P2 with Michelle Bested, Elodie Jacquet

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Digital Engagement with Anthea Brown, Stéphanie Beauregard (guest interviewees Matthew Cutler, Geoff Wilson, Wendy Heshka), Dave Biggs, Liz McHardy, Adam Smith

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Morning Sessions

Experiential engagement: Creating more inclusive processes for City decision and policy making with Josh Fullan, Charity Dyke, Gabrielle Donoff

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Participatory Budgeting to Promote Resiliency and Community Healing in Response to Ferguson with Paula M. Southerland, Michelle Mitchell

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Planning for Failure in Public Involvement: A Community Critique with Nate Lash, Jeff Dietrich

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Re-inventing Communication Approaches through Art, Design, and Superheroes with Maura Jarvis, Herbie Hickmott, Hailey Stern

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From WTF to What next? Being a Trust Broker with Jeni Vlahovic

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Closing Plenary

Using P2 to build a better future for everyone with Gay Robinson and Pam Kapoor (conference co-chairs), Catherine Rockandel (President, IAP2 Canada), Gwen Howard (President, IAP2 USA), Kylie Cochrane (Chair, IAP2 International) and Robyn Austin (Steering Committee Chair, 2021 IAP2 North American Conference - Seattle)

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