Our Approach
We believe in ongoing learning through collaboration.
Our team helps partners reach organizational goals and strategies by building partnerships within communities, as well as networks across communities, agencies, and organizations.
Facilitation and collaboration are more than organizing and managing meetings. This work plays an essential role in pulling together different groups and perspectives to have vital conversations and work toward a common goal and strategy. As the impacts of a changing environment and resource degradation continue to increase, natural resources management will play an increasingly important role. Therefore, collaboration is crucial to address these issues.
Our approach includes the following elements:
Provide assessment, analysis, and support to ensure a common understanding of the issues, inter-personal and inter-organizational dynamics, and potential constraints and opportunities.
Coach, mentor, and train others to enhance organizational capacity and participate effectively in developing goals and solutions.
Integrate the best available science, information, and joint fact-finding approaches into field-based initiatives.
Provide skilled facilitation, consensus building, and mediation services.
Create multiple learning opportunities through meeting and workshop settings, events, field studies, program cross visits, applied research, and training.
Design a collaborative process that encourages broad-based representation and buy-in of all affected individuals and groups.
Develop working partnerships, active networks, and more effective organizational structures.
Support effective monitoring, evaluation, and documentation of program efforts.
Develop effective communication strategies through a variety of web-based tools.