Webinars presented by IAP2 Canada and IAP2 USA are recorded; the recordings and any collateral material are made available for the professional development use of our members and non-members who have paid to take part in the monthly webinars. IAP2 Tasters are mini-versions of professional development courses. In these 45-minute webinars, you'll get to engage with a trainer on a given topic, ask questions and make comments, and come away with two or three learning points that you can put to work right away in your own practice. Many of these same trainers present longer versions of these courses, whether ad hoc throughout the year or at events like the annual IAP2 Skills Symposium. |
2019 Webinars
- January Webinar: Diversity & Inclusion in P2
- Taster Series: "Why Are These People Yelling At Me?" Understanding Opposition and Outrage in P2"
- Taster Series: "Reconciliation & Public Participation"
- February Webinar: "Large-Scale P2 for Large-Scale Projects"
- March Webinar: "Visual Engagement"
- April Webinar: "Victoria Encore - Creating Communications and P2 Roadmaps"
- May Webinar: "Victoria Encore - Youth Shaping Cities"
- June Webinar: "Victoria Encore - Engaging the Rumor Mill"
- July Webinar: "Victoria Encore - Not Just Dragons: A Model For Inclusive Engagement With Communities Of Color"
- August Webinar: "Victoria Encore - Navigating the Culture Wars through Thoughtful P2"
- October Webinar: IAP2 Projects of the Year - 2019
- November Webinar: Charlotte Encore: "Youth Empowerment & Racial Equity"
- December Webinar: Understanding Indigenous Identity / Comprendre l'identité autochtone
January 2019 Learning Webinar
Diversity & Inclusion in P2
The 2018 IAP2 Core Values Award winners for "Respect for Diversity, Inclusion and Culture" from Canada and the USA shared their respective success journeys in the first webinar of the year. In Canada, it was the City of Surrey, working with MODUS Planning, Design and Engagement on a new Parks, Recreation and Culture strategic plan. In the USA, TriMet, the transportation agency serving the region around Portland, OR, worked with JLA Public Involvement to develop a bus service expansion plan to serve an area with a very diverse population.
The Surrey/MODUS PowerPoint is here.
Download the TriMet/JLA PowerPoint here.
IAP2 Taster Series
"Why Are These People Yelling At Me?" Understanding Opposition and Outrage in P2
Stephani Roy McCallum returns with a Taster of the longer course, "Strategies for Dealing with Opposition and Outrage in P2".
Download the PowerPoint deck (.pdf) here.
Download Stephani's worksheet here.
Download Stephani's Conference speech here.
Download Stephani's "3 Tips" here.
IAP2 Taster Series
"Reconciliation & Public Participation"
Reconciliation between Indigenous and all Canadians is a frequent topic in news headlines, political speeches, and communities across the country. Through their 94 Calls to Action, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission offered a road map to Canadians on the way forward to a more inclusive, productive, and engaged society. So where do public participation professionals and the practice of P2 fit in this reconciliation journey? Watch the "Reconciliation & Public Participation" Webinar featuring Indigenous Engagement specialists Teneya Gwin and Anne Harding to explore the intersection between reconciliation and public participation and advance your own reconciliation journey in the process.
February 2019 Learning Webinar
"Large-Scale P2 for Large-Scale Projects"
The winners of the IAP2 Canada and IAP2 USA Project of the Year both had to bring a wide range of voices and interests to the table. The Federal Department of Justice set out to reform Canada's criminal justice system, which meant nation-wide engagement and tough conversations, often involving Indigenous issues. In the USA, Williams Energy planned its Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project, running through ten counties in eastern Pennsylvania, and engaged people and organizations from across the spectrum, including some of the toughest opponents.
Here are some of the videos of people affected by the criminal justice system:
- Devon’s story (about Indigenous Over-Representation)
- Dale & Rea Swan’s story (about Court Delays)
- Karen & Nicole’s story (about Victims’ Experience)
- Jorgina’s story (about Indigenous Over-Representation)
March 2019 Learning Webinar
"Visual Engagement"
A public policy initiative might be vital for the community, but the subject matter could be deadly dull. How do you attract people to participate? In 2018, IAP2 Canada joined with the Dazzline Notice Awards to create a new Core Values Award for Visual Engagement. In the March webinar, the two co-winners -- the District of Squamish BC and the Region of Waterloo, Ontario -- showed how they created visually-grabbing campaigns that got the general public involved.
April 2019 Learning Webinar
"Victoria Encore - Creating Communications and P2 Roadmaps"
Communications and Public Participation are very similar, yet very different, and still inseparable. In this reprise from the 2018 IAP2 North American Conference, Lara Tierney, Kirsty Neill and Wade Wilson discuss their interconnectedness and offer some tools and tips for maximizing both.
Here is an example of the Engagement Triangle, as conceived by Capire.
If you're interested in the work the City of Edmonton has been doing, setting up its public engagement department, you can find out more here. You can find P2 plans and summary reports in the City of Calgary's Research Engage Library, as well as an example of a combined communications and P2 plan with the City of Edmonton here.
May 2019 Learning Webinar
"Victoria Encore - Youth Shaping Cities"
In an era where citizens are increasingly empowered to shape their cities, youth are still overlooked, undervalued, and often included only as an afterthought. Even when engaged, youth inclusion and participation is often tokenistic and transactional. As a result, youth are the most untapped resource in addressing our cities’ sustainability challenges.
This session critically examined the underpinning theory and systemic barriers that continue to exclude youth participation, resulting in civic disengagement, lack of trust, and significant missed opportunities. By analyzing case studies and sharing best practices, techniques, and tools, we hope to empower engagement practitioners to re-imagine and redesign their youth engagement practices.
June 2019 Learning Webinar
"Victoria Encore - Engaging the Rumor Mill"
In this webinar, Carrie McIntosh, Manager of Community Engagement at the BC Ferry Corporation, reprises her session on getting to know and work with close-knit communities. These communities, geographic and otherwise, have their own culture, one that doesn’t always make engagement a simple task. Information moves easily but isn’t easily controlled, vocal minorities can easily dominate conversation, and clients who have seen it all before can quickly lose heart.
Carrie's session explores five key lessons learned from working with small communities on BC’s west coast. From closed Facebook groups that house rampant rumour mills, to client frustration that threatens to derail well-intentioned strategies, this session explores them all with a dose of humour. Participants will walk away with a list of practical steps they can take to create meaningful engagement outcomes for their clients and the communities they serve. Read the session description from the North American Conference here.
July 2019 Learning Webinar
Victoria Encore - "Not Just Dragons": A Model For Inclusive Engagement With Communities Of Color
In this webinar, Miranda Eng, senior consultant at Context Research, will share recent collaborative work with community members from Vancouver’s Chinatown to co-create a model to guide culturally respectful planning and design of engagement processes.
Engaging cultural communities is crucial yet complex. When public processes have failed to be inclusive, we’ve seen civic distrust and a loss of community support for projects and plans. So what can inclusive engagement in cultural communities look like? How might we go beyond platitudes of ‘diversity and inclusion’? How might some tactics that we typically rely on be considered disrespectful?
Read the session description from the North American Conference here.
August 2019 Learning Webinar
VICTORIA ENCORE - "NAVIGATING THE CULTURE WARS THROUGH THOUGHTFUL P2"
Once again, we're excited to present one of the session presentations at the 2018 IAP2 North American Conference, that attendees told us would make a good Learning Webinar. In this, John Godec MCP3, Debra Duerr and Wendy Green-Lowe CP3 of The Participation Company, and Doug Sarno MCP3 of Forum Facilitation Group discuss delving into understanding of human behavior, the battle for control, and toxic participants and how we approach these issues as P2 practitioners.
It's never been easy, but to be successful these days, we need to adjust to a hyper political and partisan environment. This session will explore the key battles we face in designing and conducting successful participation. We'll discuss creating a level playing field, creating trust and facilitating success: what are the obstacles, and what are our "big guns"?.
Read the session description from the North American Conference here.
October 2019 Learning Webinar
2019 IAP2 PROJECTS OF THE YEAR (CANADA & USA)
In the first of our "Charlotte Encores" we offer a reprise of one of the keynote presentations at the 2019 IAP2 North American Conference. Liz Styron and Kaleia Martin will discuss how youth empowerment, racial equity, and collective power can be harnessed to create sustainable and effective change within our local organizations and the communities we serve.
November 2019 Learning Webinar
CHARLOTTE ENCORE: "YOUTH EMPOWERMENT & RACIAL EQUITY"
In the first of our "Charlotte Encores" we offer a reprise of one of the keynote presentations at the 2019 IAP2 North American Conference. Liz Styron and Kaleia Martin will discuss how youth empowerment, racial equity, and collective power can be harnessed to create sustainable and effective change within our local organizations and the communities we serve.
Read the session description from the North American Conference here.
- a link to Pam Diggs' article, "10 Reasons Why Youth Empowerment Without a Racial Equity Approach Won't Work"
- an article they referred to, "The Complexity of Identity", by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- a link to a TEDTalk by Kimberle Crenshaw on "The Urgency of Intersectionality"
December 2019 Learning Webinar
UNDERSTANDING INDIGENOUS IDENTITY
COMPRENDRE L'IDENTITÉ AUTOCHTONE
This webinar will include bilingual PowerPoint slides and is intended for both Francophone and Anglophone IAP2 members. / Ce webinaire inclut des diapositives PowerPoint bilingues et s'adresse aux membres francophones et anglophones de l'AIP2.
Engaging ethically with First Nations, Metis and Inuit people is about moving forward within a respectful, egalitarian and participatory process. Understanding History, Territory and Indigenous Identity for Inclusion ... a step towards reconciliation is a conversation looking at how to shift social structures of “us” and “them”, looking at history as narrative and reclaiming Indigenous voices in colonial spaces.
S'engager de manière éthique avec les Premières Nations, métis et inuits, c'est avancer dans un processus respectueux, égalitaire et participatif. Animé par Nadine St-Louis des Productions feux-sacrés, Comprendre l’histoire, le territoire et l’identité autochtone pour l’inclusion… un pas en avant vers la réconciliation est une conversation sur la manière de changer les structures sociales du «nous» et du «eux», en considérant l’histoire comme récit et en revendiquant les voix autochtones dans les espaces coloniaux.