2018 Skills Symposium: Designing for Diversity

As project stakeholders and their perspectives become increasingly diverse, practitioners are challenged to intentionally design and successfully implement robust and inclusive engagement processes that ethically and equitably engage all key stakeholder groups. Participants leave this highly-participatory and practical course with a deeper understanding of the “spectrum of diversity,” skills and tools to design robust and inclusive engagement processes, and explicit guidance on how to develop a comprehensive and effective implementation plan using the right tools and techniques – plus a great cohort of colleagues to help you with this work over time.

PLEASE NOTE: International IAP2 members require a code to register. Please contact info@iap2canada.ca to obtain it.

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Learning Objectives

At the end of this two-day course, participants will:

• Appreciate the “spectrum of diversity,” and understand the value and critical importance of bringing multiple perspectives forward to address complex community issues
• Learn how to define clear engagement objectives for increasing and deepening diversity within public engagement efforts
• Gain experience in stakeholder identification and appropriate participation tools
• Understand the essential art and science of ethical and equitable engagement design, and how to translate that into effective and successful implementation
• Develop ethical and effective approaches and techniques for supporting and engaging diverse participants
• Explore underrepresentation, how to recognize and explain it, and what to do to ensure all stakeholder voices are heard
• Understand how to evaluate and redesign during implementation
• Know how to translate new learnings into successful and inclusive practice

Trainer: Anne Carroll

Anne Carroll has been a consultant and trainer in public involvement and strategic planning for many years, serving primarily the public sector in both the USA and Canada. She focuses on designing and implementing inclusive and meaningful stakeholder engagement on important public issues, reaching out to and engaging diverse groups of people and perspectives, and tackling complex and multi-stakeholder environments. She served for 16 years as an elected member of the citywide St. Paul (Minnesota, USA) Board of Education, and serves as a board member or committee chair with the International Association for Public Participation USA, Minnesota Education Equity Partnership, and E- Democracy.org. See more information at www.carrollfranck.com.

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