Addressing Historic Inequities in Texas Housing Investments through Strategic Engagement and Analyzing Root Causes of Inequities

Nefertitti Jackmon, leader of the City of Austin's Displacement Prevention Division, along with Alba Sereno and Cara Bertron, also of the City of Austin, and John Gilvar of Gilvar Consulting, discuss the spectrum of community engagement and the root causes of inequities. Learn how to establish criteria to engage historically under-represented communities and identify effective interventions to deliver successful engagement opportunities. 

Breaking Down Barriers to Bolster Youth Voices

Using a real-life public engagement evaluation in 2017 that identified an observable lack of participation at in-person events - especially as it pertains to youth - speaker Victoria Etchegary, Manager of Organizational Performance and Strategy at the City of St. John's, shares the actions taken by their municipality to remedy the situation. 

Building a Shared Decision-making Model Grounded in Indigenous Values

Build a deeper understanding of how world views are embedded and shape cultural bias, and explore shared decision making with CP3s Catherine Rockandel, Principal with Rockandel & Associates, and Jane Newlands, Principal with SJN Communications. If you are a non-Indigenous P2 practitioner, ask yourself - what are you learning and unlearning?

NAC Encore - City of Edmonton Ward Re-Naming Initiative

For decades, the wards -- the political districts -- in the City of Edmonton had "Euro-centric" names. But Edmonton and its environs have, throughout history, been a cross-roads and meeting-place for Indigenous people. In 2020, following a request by a group of Indigenous elders and as part of its commitment to further reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, the city launched a project to give the wards new names.

In this reprise of their highly popular presentation at the 2021 IAP2 North American Virtual Conference, leaders of the public engagement process in this initiative will share how the Indigenous Ward Naming Initiative was developed. A group of Indigenous women led the effort and in December, 2020, the twelve wards were given new names, reflecting the variety of language groups in the area.

As one member of the committee put it, "it is time for us to be seen". Watch a video about the initiative here.

Community Connectors-in-Residence: Building Power, Raising Voices, and Elevating the Experiences and Priorities of Communities of Color

City of Boulder employees Ana Karina Casa Ibarra, Community Connector-in-Residence, and Ryan Hanschen, Community Engagement Manager, discuss the Community Connectors-in-Residence program in engaging historically excluded communities. The program supports the voices and build power of underrepresented communities by reducing barriers to community engagement, advancing racial equity, and surfacing the ideas, concerns, and dreams of community members.

DEI- Yes! But what the heck is intersectionality - How Applying an Intersectional Lens to P2 Projects Helps Us Live IAP2 Values More Fully

Are you unfamiliar with the concept of intersectionality, especially as it relates to your work in P2? Learn about the concept and application of intersectionality and its difference from DEI, before moving onto intersectional analysis for P2 planning and design. Finally, speaker Pam Kapoor discusses how it applies to IAP2's Core Values. Don't miss this opportunity to combine professional development with personal learning!

NAC Encore - Community Liaisons: An Equitable Approach to Community Engagement with Multicultural Communities

A reprise of one of the more popular sessions at the 2021 IAP2 North American Conference.

Is your organization looking to develop authentic, equity-based partnerships with diverse communities? In this session, Andy Gregory and Ilays Aden focus on the Port of Seattle's equity-based approaches to community engagement, grantmaking, and environmental justice. The team will present our approach to engaging multi-cultural, multi-lingual communities through a liaison model to accomplish a shared goal of deepening access to Port resources.

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Credentials Matter! Invest in YOU! IAP2 Professional Certification.

New to the world of IAP2? Join Dr. Cassie Hemphill, Consultant at Cross Street Communication Training and Management, Wendy Green Lowe, Partner at The Participation Company, and Brenda Pichette, CEO at P2 Facilitators, as they review IAP2's training, certificate, and the international CP3 certification and designation. Learn how to achieve and maintain this certification. 

Cultivating Safe Spaces in P2: Lessons Learned from the Classroom

Are you seeking first-hand knowledge regarding best practices for cultivating safe spaces in public participation and engagement? Look no further - Emaan Ali and Angella Thang from Hill+Knowlton Strategies help define just what is a safe space and provide guidelines for their creation. A safe space scenario and sharing session round out this webinar.

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A Decolonized Approach to Community Engagement in a Municipal Planning Process

Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Urban Indigenous Policy Fellow at SFU, Susanna Haas Lyons of Susanna Haas Lyons Consulting, and City of Vancouver employees Monica Bennington, Engagement Team Lead, and Courtney Healey, Project Manager, speak on this panel from the 2022 NAC. Vancouver's West End Community Hub is provided as an example of approaching community engagement from a decolonized approach in the municipal planning process. 

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Disrupting Stigma and Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Health Care Through Illustrated Storytelling

Join Katie Mai, MHA, PMP, leader of Patient Experience and Community Engagement at BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services in this webinar covering principles of co-design, and how they can be applied to challenge stigma and advance DEI. Learn how illustrated storytelling and dialogue has potential for engagement, change management, and culture transformation, and well as ways to effectively partner with people with lived and living experience of social and economic marginalization.

Engagement Tips & Bingo

Enjoy this interactive experience lead by Amanda Mitchell, engagement advisor at the City of Vancouver working to implement the Climate Emergency Action Plan, to learn how to effectively lead BINGO! as a method of engagement.

Explorons ensemble 10 techniques de p2 préférées des citoyens - Let's Try out 10 Favourite Citizen Engagement Techniques

Reflect on your past methods of success when it comes to effective citizen engagement techniques and learn from others in this French-English bilingual session lead by Hugo Mimee, CP3 from Table ronde and Renata Fontoura, PhD in Anthropology from l'Université de Montréal. 

Réfléchissez à vos méthodes de réussite passées en matière de techniques de participation des citoyens efficaces et apprenez des autres lors de cette session bilingue français-anglais animée par Hugo Mimee, CP3 de la Table ronde et Renata Fontoura, doctorante en anthropologie de l'Université de Montréal.

Les femmes ne participent pas. C’est parce qu’elles ne sont pas intéressées… Mais encore ! / Women Do Not Participate. It's Because They're Not Interested... Wait, What?

In this French-English bilingual session, Pierre Batellier and Odile Rochon from the Bureau d'audiences publique sur l'environnement (BAPE) describe their work, and answer why there should be a focus on women's public speaking. They share data and best practices.

Dans cette session bilingue français-anglais, Pierre Batellier et Odile Rochon du Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement (BAPE) décrivent leur travail et expliquent pourquoi il faut mettre l'accent sur la prise de parole en public des femmes. Ils partagent des données et des bonnes pratiques.

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‘Forensic Analysis’ of Hybrid Facilitation Engagements – Lessons from the Trenches

Rebecca Sutherns, CEO of Sage Solutions, shares "fixed points" and a variety of resources for planning successful hybrid meetings, as well as tips for this unique type of facilitation engagements.

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Hello. হ্যালো. வணக்கம். 你好. Engaging Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Neighbourhoods

Using the real-life case study of phases 4 & 5 of Regent Park's revitalization in Toronto, Jocelyn Deeks and Simone Hodgson from Bousfields Inc. share their community engagement approach to ensure diverse representation. They speak on the engagement methods utilized, as well as the visual materials shared with the community before-and-after they are approached with cultural and linguistic diversity in mind.

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How Can a City Help Businesses During Construction? Embedding Economic Justice into Municipal Infrastructure Projects

Nehama Rogozen from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) describes their Construction Mitigation Program and the subsequent measures implemented surrounding projects that have long-term economic benefits, but short-term negative impacts on area businesses, especially those run by people of color, 1st generation immigrants, non-English speakers or those with lack of access to capital or other resources.

How Can Community Engagement Address Hate Crimes and Incidents?

Registered Social Worker Landon Turlock defines hate crimes and incidents, before discussing the role of community engagement in responding to them. Hear about emerging practices for this response before engaging in a case study activity to exercise your ability to apply this concept to real-life examples. 

Fight Different: The Power of Focal Thinking in Systemic Conflicts

Delve into an introduction to Focal Thinking, Dr. Mark Szabo's 4-hour course from the Szabo Center for Complex Conflict. Explore three modules in this 60-minute webinar: Module I, The Nature of the Problem, Module II, The Nature of Conflict, and Module III, Nature is the Teacher.

NAC Encore - From the Bottom Up: How the Public Can Create Public Policy

As public policy practitioners, we work with the decision maker to identify and engage stakeholders when it's necessary to inform the public policy making process. But how can the public identify and engage decision makers proactively? Can our public participation practices facilitate this form of democratic engagement?

In this reprise of one of the more popular sessions at the 2021 IAP2 North American Conference, Kimberly Horndeski looks at some of the lessons learned when a nonprofit organization paired with two governmental entities in an attempt to influence 52 other elected officials to adopt a joint resolution across a five-county region. You'll gain a deeper understanding of what is successful and challenging about a bottom-up public participation process, as well as an outline of a potential framework practitioners can put to use, themselves.

Closing Keynote 2022: How to Change a City

Motivational speaker, coach, and anti-oppressions consultant Shalini Sinha delivers the closing keynote address of the 2022 North American Conference. You can find more information about Shalini at beinclusiv.com.

I Don’t Have a TikTok— What Now?

TikTok is Generation Z's social media platform of choice for creating, sharing, and discovering short videos, and to share ideas across a community. But just because you do not have the tool, does that mean they are unreachable from an engagement context? Shockey Consulting members Sheila Shockey, Tyler Waldorf, and Maddie Hughes, CP3, discuss our ability to think transgenerationally - aiming to reach outside the box to think outside our own perspective and reach different demographics.

IAP2 Makeover with Isabella GiaVulva 'The Engagement Drag Queen'

Join Drag Queen and Community Narrative Consultant Isabella GiaVulva as she reimagines an approach to the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation in this engaging webinar. The idea is not to exclude those who can't come - but to figure out how to share with all in something YUM!

NAC Encore - Innovations in Climate Community Engagement

What would it take to build the public support required to transform the global economy and reach net-zero emissions by mid-century? How can governments move past the polarization, misinformation and unrealistic public expectations that prevent them from accelerating climate action?

From Brazil to the United Kingdom, countries are opting for co-creating solutions and building consensus through citizens’ assemblies, rather than continuing polarizing debate. Other communities around the world are experimenting with green participatory budgeting, co-creating climate resilience programming and increasing public confidence in climate action by putting residents at the centre of decision-making.

In this reprise of their popular session from the 2021 IAP2 North American Virtual Conference and drawing from more recent research, Elodie Jacquet (left) and Robin Prest (right) of the Simon Fraser University's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and the International Climate Engagement Consortium will explore how engagement can scale to create the rapid and sustainable responses as well as better integrate with other tools and policies.

Know Yourself, Know Your Audience: Leadership Skills Building for Productive Conversations

Three members from Strategic Earth Consulting - Kelly Sayce, HEO & Founder, Rachelle Fisher, Principal, and Sara Shen, Senior Associate - share skills to enhance productive conversations. From strengthening self-awareness to cultivating positive communications skills, reflect on how you can envision bringing these tools into your work.

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Many Pathways Lead to Stronger Relationships: EPCOR's Indigenous Engagement Strategy

EPCOR shares how they have been working towards meaningful engagement with the 30+ Indigenous Nations and communities in whose territory their projects operate. Jed Johns, Manager of Government & Indigenous Relations at EPCOR Utilities and Anne Harding, owner of Forum Community Relations lead this session.

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Opening Keynote 2022: Maximizing Impact: Tap into The 3 Ts to Build Great Teams and Organizations

Hear from IAP2 Canada's past president Catherine Rockandel and IAP2 USA's president Heather Imboden as they welcome delegates to the 2022 North American Conference in Banff, Alberta, and provide an introduction to the event. Keynote speaker Steve Mesler, former team USA 4-man bobsledder and Olympic gold medallist, delivers a presentation on teamwork.

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The Next Step for Lottery-Selected Citizen Panels- Equity-Driven Design

Learn about lottery-selected citizen panels as a new approach to democracy, and its applications to P2 from Healthy Democracy Program Co-Director Alex Renirie. There's no silver bullet to equity-driven design, but adding this additional tool to your practitioner toolkit may make a world of difference! 

No One is Listening! - Ottawa Trucker Occupation 2022

When facing high degrees of polarization, can P2 be an effective tool? Tune into a discussion tackling one of the most polarizing events in recent years of Canadian history - the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent 2022 trucker occupation of Ottawa. Brenda Pichette of F2 Facilitators, Mary Moreland, and Joseph Thornley of 76engage lead this session.

Nothing About Us, Without Us: Applying an Equity Lens to Climate Change Management

City of Calgary planners Catriona White, Ariam Wolde-Giorgis, and Shane Gagnon share the City's climate engagement strategy, tactics, online platforms, and lessons learned in regards to the application of an equity lens. An equity discussion rounds out this webinar. 

Playful Planning: How to Gamify Public Engagement

Kiera Vandeborne, Patrick Oystryk, and Tru Taylor of MODUS Planning, Design & Engagement lead this session on the gamification of public engagement. Learn how to use game design elements in non-game contexts such as P2 to increase motivation and garner results.

Reimagining Traditional Strategic Planning: Using Co-design to Engage Diverse Voices in a Digital-first Context

Impact Plus Consulting co-founders Precious Ile and Amarachi Nnah-Ogbonda tell participants how to identify gaps with traditional strategic planning processes, recognize the value and importance of co-design, and share practical tools, insights, and learnings for applying co-design to engage diverse voices digitally in unique remote/hybrid contexts.

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Showing Up - A Behavioural Insights Approach

Natasha Steinback of FIKA Consulting, Lindsay Humber from Lindsay Humber Consulting, and Kim Hyshka from Dialogue Partners know that citizens help shape decision making, but ask the webinar audience - how do they make decisions? Using behavioural insights, they provide tips and tricks in designing the outcomes you want to achieve.

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Tear Down the Open House: “Youth-ifying” Engagement

Reimagine the Open House or Town Hall meeting with speakers Veronika Bylicki, Executive Director & Co-Founder of CityHive, and Rowan Gentleman-Sylvester, Programs Manager at CityHive, based in Vancouver, BC. Explore engagement contexts, push the limits by "youth-ifying," and build your toolkit to walk away with clear next steps and tools to use in engagement practices going forward.

Uncovering the ‘So What’ of Public and Patient Engagement- How to Evaluate the Impact of Engagement Using the Engage with Impact Toolkit

Laura Tripp, MSc, from the Public and Patient Engagement Collaborative at McMaster University, helps attendees recognize the value and importance of evaluating the impact of public and patient engagement. In this webinar, you will review and practice using the "Engage with Impact Toolkit," and understand how to use it to evaluate the impact on your own engagement work.

Value Creation in P2

What do you understand value to mean when you are practising P2? This session lead by members of IAP2 Canada's Research Committee, including Brenda Wallace, Rebecca Melenka, Doha Melhem, and Jane Newlands, explores the concept of value creation in P2.

NAC Encore - What Can I Do About the Deepening Political Divide?

A reprise of one of the more popular sessions at the 2021 IAP2 North American Conference. Political division in America has not been this deep since the Reformation following the Civil War. What can we do? We live in a world where there is no shortage of divisive and intractable issues facing society. We are divided by polarized politics that hamper our ability to find common ground on the way forward. This polarization creates an uncivil atmosphere where it seems that we can no longer have open and frank conversations. We just head to our respective corners. Most of these contentious issues that divide our society are critical to our futures. What can we do as neutral facilitators to effectively move people toward healing?

The speaker sets the stage and deepens participants understanding of why the divide is deepening. Participants and speaker will learn from each other in a small group breakout about best practices.

What Do Your Online Participants Really Want? Choice Architecture and Purposeful Design Provide the Foundation for Meaningful Input

Joseph Thornley, Founder and CEO of 76engage, and Elizabeth Thornley, Engagement Architect at 76engage, lead this interactive session in teaching delegates how to design thoughtful online engagement tools. Leave this 60-minute session with a toolkit of best practices.

What's Your Story: Exploring Storytelling as an Engagement Technique

Join speakers Tru Taylor, Engagement Specialist & Planner and Kiera Vandeborne, Engagement Specialist at MODUS Planning, Design & Engagement to explore storytelling as a tool for deeper and equitable engagement.

When Equitable Engagement Gets Pushback

Have you gotten pushback on your equity engagement initiatives? Municipal planners from across the United States - Ryan Hanschen and Brenda Ritenour of the City of Boulder, Dani Hess of the City of Bozeman, and Rose Toehe of the City of Flagstaff - discuss the potential for pushback, as well as a variety of approaches previously used to respond. Hear about elements of responding to this pushback and stories of success while learning from peers in public engagement and their relative experiences in this webinar.

2021 Core Values Award Winners

In this webinar, we hear about three Core Values Award honorees from 2021:

• University of Victoria - Creativity & Innovation (Canada) - for Students' Dialogue on Democratic Engagement
• San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency - Honorable Mention - Creativity & Innovation (USA):Pandemic Resiliency
• Vancouver Coastal Health Authority - Respect for Diversity, Inclusion and Culture (Canada): VCH Translation Engagement

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2021 Core Values Award Winners

The Government of Manitoba won Organization of the Year for EngageMB, which helped Manitobans to stay connected and involved with their provincial government during the pandemic. They’ll be joined by Avenue Consultants, which developed the public consultation process for the rebuilding and reimagining of a major thoroughfare in Salt Lake City, Utah. This project was the USA Core Values Award in the General Project category. Here are some of the supporting documents for the webinar:

• Bios of our two presenters.
• The Government of Manitoba’s PowerPoint Deck
• The slide deck used by Stacee Adams of Avenue Consultants
• The 300 West Project Overview, including its video.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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

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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.

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/

• 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.

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

NAC Encore: 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.

NAC Encore: 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:

• Think Like a Futurist Video
• Transgenerational Profiles video
• Megatrends Video
• Breakout Group Activity instructions
• 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.

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.

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:

• the bios of your presenters, Dr Stéphanie Yates and Hugo Mimee, CP3
• the research report
• the findings from the Research Committee’s State of the Practice Survey (fall 2020).

• 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

Core Values Award Recipients - Projects of the Year 2021

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:

• Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District
• Argyle

And here are the bios of our presenters.

Here are some additional resources:

"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.

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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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