Category: Tools
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Earlier this month we published a new e-book, “Understanding the Facilitation Cycle.” This is the first in a series we are calling “Facilitation Analytics,” short guides that provide practical, focused insights you and your team can use immediately. On April 8, Sarah also presented at the Annual Conference of the American Bar Association’s Section of…
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Last week on a call with others who are working on “naming and framing” various issues in their communities, someone asked for recommendations on how to sort the notes of various volunteers into a summary document that would be useful. As we discussed on the call, one simple low cost approach is to set up…
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It’s been a busy few months. Sarah’s daughter got married and, along with other matters, we have been working on a very interesting project with the Kettering Foundation involving the media and democracy. Sarah has also been working through a local nonprofit on dialogues about youth and education, using another Kettering sponsored guide. We sponsored…
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Our workbook was designed to fill a gap: there are very few tools to help you evaluate how effective a particular engagement process like visioning, or “deliberative dialogue” might be in your community, before committing resources. So the success of a particular process is often hit or miss. Misses undermine trust and make future engagement…
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Urban development is often a difficult process that can create new conflicts and exacerbate old ones, particularly when larger plans are “announced” by community leaders to a public that has not been actively engaged in the planning process and does not understand its goals. In this post, we look at how starting small and working with…