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• Riding the Storm: Bravely Leading in times of polarization and disruption- Self Paced Learning: At your own pace, in your own time

  • Start
    April 22, 2021
  • End
    December 31, 2023
  • Location
    Online - Self Paced Learning

  Register

  Introducing IAP2 USA's first online, self-paced training opportunity

  This new self-paced course will build your skills and knowledge for bravely leading in times of polarization and conflict.

  We live in times of rapid change, upheaval and global inter-connection. We are experiencing a growing divide and polarization between people, with an increasing dynamic of us versus them. We've seen a rise in public shame, blame and vitriol. We face enormous complex challenges like climate change, the global refugee crisis, systemic racism and inequity. We've been hit with a global pandemic which is causing rising fear, anxiety and uncertainty.

  While all these things are in the space of the public arena where we interact with each other every day, we have a unique opportunity to choose how we want to lead these biggest challenges of our lives and choose how we want to work together with others.

  It starts with you. Ask yourself these questions:

  • What is happening around you that you want to step in to?

  • How do you want to lead in ways that are different than you are leading now?

  • What would be different if you were better equipped to bravely lead challenging conversations?

  • What works and what doesn’t and what do you need to watch out for?

  The course opens with an introductory video lecture on key concepts, with 4 more modules where you can work at your own pace to build competency in key areas of leadership in a world of complexity, polarization and disruption. The Modules cover: 

  • Bravely leading challenging conversations 

  • Holding space for high emotion 

  • Building trust in the public arena 

  • De-escalation tools for high stakes interactions

  Priced lower than our other courses, this self-paced training allows you to learn when and where it works best for you. When you are done, you qualify for a free coaching session with Steph Roy McCallum, the course instructor, to deepen and apply your learning.

  $365 Members -- $455 Non-Members

  *IAP2 USA Members must login to receive the members only rate

  *IAP2 International Members can email info@iap2usa for a discount code

   — Cancellation and Substitution policy —

  Course Outline

   
  

  Trainer: Stephani Roy McCallum

  Stephani is Chief Storm Rider at the Courageous Leadership Project. She is a Leadership Coach, Certified Professional Facilitator, and a seasoned leader specializing in conflict, high emotion and controversy. She has worked internationally on controversial projects with individuals, organizations and communities to transform conflict and create momentum for positive change. Stephani believes that brave, honest conversations solve the problems in our world.

  She has led and managed conversations involving more than 30,000 participants, and has worked on five continents facilitating complex topics like municipal budgets, school closures, land use, health care, transportation, nuclear waste, natural disaster, truth and reconciliation, environment and more.

  Stephani has been the Project Lead on a number of international and national award winning projects, including a project which received the IAP2 International Core Values Award for finding common ground and a way forward for the blood donation policy for men who have had sex with other men for Canadian Blood Services, a highly divisive and polarizing issue.

  She has been a licensed trainer of the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Foundations in Public Participation since 2005, and was a lead developer of IAP2’s Strategies for Public Opposition and Outrage course. She was an IAP2 Assessor, coach and mentor for new candidate trainers for all of IAP2's training programs from 2011 to 2016, and continues to serve as an Assessor and Coach for new trainers of the Outrage program. She was the 2008 President of IAP2 International. Stephani has a background in Sociology and holds certificates in Co-active coaching, Courageous Leadership, Authentic Leadership, community development & alternative dispute resolution. She regularly speaks and presents internationally on how to lead powerfully in the face of challenges, creating new more possible futures for all of us, together.

  
  

  
  

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• IAP2's Designing & Leading Public Participation

  • Start
    September 26, 2023
  •  
    (EDT)
  • End
    September 29, 2023
  •  
    (EDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Online Via Zoom- Trainers: Cassie Hemphill & Doug Zenn
  • Spaces left
    0

  Registration is closed

  **You must first complete Fundamentals of Public Participation before this course**

  Four 4-hour sessions

  September 26-29

  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern
  12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Central
  11:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m. Mountain
  

  10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Pacific

  
  

  Designing & Leading Public Participation
  

  Designing & Leading Public Participation (P2) is a Level 2 course that introduces practitioners to the design and plan phases of the practice framework, providing them with the opportunity to develop P2 plans. This includes scoping, community mapping, determining purpose and objectives and levels of influence, choosing appropriate methods and managing resources, while considering the needs of diverse audiences. The course is suitable for practitioners who are leading the planning and implementation of P2 processes.

  Course objectives:

  1. For a real-world scenario, design an engagement process and plan that includes:

  • Develop a clear scope of the work, problem or opportunity with identified negotiables and non-negotiables
  • Conduct detailed stakeholder analysis, community mapping and equity analysis
  • Identify appropriate roles and levels of influence for key participants
  • Establish clear engagement purpose and objectives and success criteria/measures to suit scenario
  • Identify relevant profiles of engagement
  • Conduct a detailed risk/opportunities assessment
  • Identify key roles for senior leaders and decision makers

  2. Explore principles and approaches for equity, diversity and inclusion, and apply them to stakeholder analysis

  3. Embed digital strategies, platforms, tools and methods as part of the plan and process

  4. Develop an evaluation framework to suit the scenario

  5. Identify key roles and resources needed to implement the P2/engagement plan

  6. Develop and apply a suitable presentation to senior leaders that will secure commitment and resources for the P2/engagement plan

  7. Identify the many different contexts of engagement, including the elements present in more complex engagement scenarios

  Professional Certification/Credits
  

  • This course is required for IAP2 Professional Certification.
  • This course is eligible for APA - AICP Continuing Education Credit CM I 16 CM

  THIS COURSE
  

  #2 Designing & Leading Public Participation (4 - 4 hour sessions CM I 16 CM) 
  

  May 16-19, 2023       1 PM – 5 PM ET

  Members $550 -- Regular $650 

  Last day to Register May 12, 2023

  PLEASE NOTE: IAP2 USA members must be logged in to receive the member rate. International IAP2 members can contact info@iap2usa.org for a code to register. 

   — Cancellation and Substitution policy —
  

  **You must first complete Fundamentals of Public Participation before this course**

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  PREREQUISITE COURSE
  

  #1 Fundamentals of Public Participation (2 - 4 hour sessions CM I 8 CM) 
  

  May 11 & 12, 2023        1 PM – 5 PM ET O
  

  Members $275 --  Regular $325
  

  Last day to Register: May 8

  REGISTER FOR FUNDAMENTALS

  FINAL COURSE
  

  #3 Applying Methods for Public Participation (4 - 4 hour sessions CM I 16 CM) 
  

  June 20-23, 2023        1 PM – 5 PM ET
  

  Members $550 -- Regular $650 

  Last day to Register: June 16, 2023
  

  REGISTER FOR APPLYING METHODS

  Certificate Program - All Three Modules (10 - 4 hour Sessions) 

        Regular $1,625  Members $1,375  

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  Trainers:

  

   Cassie Hemphill has more than 25 years of   experience in public participation and 15 years   designing and delivering training. Her courses   emphasize transferable, applied skills participants use   to become more effective in their work and personal   lives and improve the world around them. Cassie’s   Ph.D. research explored public/private collaboration in   environmental management. Her M.A. research   analyzed decision-makers' openness to public input.   She has a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution   and is an IAP2 USA Certified Public Participation   Practitioner (CP3), a Certified Mediator (CM), and a   Certified Virtual Facilitator (CVF).

  
  

  Doug Zenn has 30 years of experience in the communications field and has developed and managed community involvement, awareness, and education efforts around numerous issues including visioning, transportation, water resources, community-based planning and more. Doug has led ZennAssociates’ development of the innovative “Three-Dimensional Public Participation” model (3DP2) an approach that expands community access to project information and provides unique avenues for community input including the use of new technologies. Doug also serves on the executive committee for IAP2’s Cascade Chapter (Oregon and Southwest Washington) and is a certified trainer for IAP2’s public involvement foundations courses. Doug Zenn has 30 years of experience in the communications field and has developed and managed community involvement.

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• Stakeholder "Mapping" -- Identifying and Analyzing Underrepresented Stakeholders

  • When
    September 27, 2023
  •  
    12:00 PM - 4:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online Via Zoom
  • Spaces left
    16

  Registration is closed

  September 27, 2023

  12:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern

  This course introduces a powerful, transparent process to identify and analyze key stakeholders for any engagement project – a critical step in an ethical and equity-centered engagement design. After understanding the theory and purpose, participants use short cases to practice stakeholder mapping. They learn how to identify and analyze the full spectrum of stakeholders, with special emphasis on underrepresented stakeholders who need additional outreach/support to ensure inclusive engagement. For each case, the group learns how to “clean” and finalize the map, and then discusses implementation challenges and how to overcome them.

  Learning outcomes:

  • Challenge: Design and implement equity-centered engagement processes for increasingly diverse communities 
  • Critical to success: Robust and comprehensive stakeholder identification and analysis (“stakeholder mapping”)
  • Course combines theory, practice, instructions, templates
  • Participants leave ready to conduct thorough, defensible stakeholder mapping that identifies underrepresented stakeholders, and use the results to plan and successfully implement inclusive engagement 

  Outline:

  • Introduction, overview, and grounding
  • Stakeholder mapping 
  • • Framing 
    • Process + Practice, Case 1 
    • IAP2 context: Code of Ethics 
    • Process + Practice, Case 2
  •  Close: Reflections, evaluation 

  Participants receive:

  • Detailed stakeholder mapping instructions 
  • Stakeholder mapping templates and examples 
  • Complete course content and notetaking document

  $200 Members  --  $275 Non Members  --  $125 Student Members. 
  

  PLEASE NOTE: IAP2 USA members must be logged into iap2usa.org as a member to register at the member rate.

  Members from other IAP2 regions need a code to register which can be obtained from info@iap2usa.org. 

   — Cancellation and Substitution policy —
  

  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 ethical and equity-centered 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 Board of Education, and serves as a board or committee member with IAP2 USA and the Minnesota Chapter, and the Minnesota Education Equity Partnership.

  
  

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• IAP2 Northeast September Idea Hub: Recap of North American Conference

  • When
    September 28, 2023
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join IAP2 Northeast on Thursday, September 28, starting at 9 a.m. for a recap and discussion of our key takeaways from the IAP2 North American Conference. Several members of the IAP2 Northeast Board are attending the event this year and are hoping to bring people together on September 28 to share best practices and how these learnings can apply to what you and your teams are tackling everyday.

  
  

  The conversation will be led by Board Member Caroline Ibarra who is currently an account director/civic planning and transportation with Arch Street Communications in New York City.

  
  

  Contact iap2.northeast@gmail.com if you need any aid or service to participate in this event.

  
  

  This is a free event. Register to receive the Zoom link.

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• IAP2's Designing & Leading Public Participation

  • Start
    October 10, 2023
  •  
    (EDT)
  • End
    October 18, 2023
  •  
    (EDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Online with Trainer Kimberly Horndeski
  • Spaces left
    20

  IAP2 Designing Public Participation

  IAP2’s Designing Public Participation introduces practitioners to the design and plan phases of the practice framework, providing them with the opportunity to consider and develop all aspects of a public engagement plan. This includes scoping, community mapping, determining purpose and objectives and levels of influence, choosing appropriate methods and managing resources, while considering the needs of diverse audiences. Participants will work with a real life, unplanned project to develop a detailed engagement plan.

  By the end of this section, participants will:

  • For a real-world scenario, design an engagement process and plan which includes:

  • Develop a clear scope of the work, problem or opportunity with identified negotiables and non-negotiables

  • Conduct detailed stakeholder analysis, community mapping and equity analysis

  • Identify appropriate roles and levels of influence for key players

  • Establish clear engagement purpose and goals and success criteria/measures to suit scenario

  • Identify relevant profiles of engagement

  • Conduct a detailed risk/opportunities

  • Choose and sequence appropriate methods (F2F and digital) and identify communication tactics to suit the scenario

  • Identify key roles for senior leaders and decision-makers

  • Explore principles and approaches for equity, diversity and inclusion and apply them to stakeholder analysis

  • Embed digital strategies, platforms, tools and methods as part of the plan and process

  • Develop an evaluation framework to suit the scenario

  • Identify key roles and resources needed to implement the P2/engagement plan

  Dates:

  • Session will be held virtually via Zoom on October 10th, October 12th, October 16th and October 18th from 12:00 to 4:00 ET.

  Click here to register

  Trainer: Kimberly Horndeski

  Kimberly is a certified mediator, facilitator, and the Executive Director for Community Consulting LLC. Her work focuses on integrating policy and science to engage stakeholders, develop strategic plans, promote collaboration, and transform conflict into successful strategies for the future. She has led multiple state and national working groups to overcome challenges and reach consensus. Her projects include bottom-up approaches, such as working with nonprofits to develop effective strategies to engage elected officials in adopting initiatives, and top-down approaches, such as assisting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service throughout the nation to incorporate stakeholder values in the decision-making processes for federally-listed threatened and endangered species.
  

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• IAP2's Applying Methods for Public Participation

  • Start
    October 10, 2023
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    (EDT)
  • End
    October 13, 2023
  •  
    (EDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom - Trainers: Cassie Hemphill & Doug Zenn
  • Spaces left
    14

  Register

  ***Fundamentals of Public Participation and Designing Public Participation are both prerequisites for this course

  Completion of IAP2 Foundations in P2: Planning For Effective Public Participation prior to 2023 also counts as a prerequisite for this course***

  

  IAP2's Applying Methods for Public Participation

  Four 4-hour sessions

  October 10, 11, 12, 13, 2023
  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern
  12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Central
  11:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m. Mountain
  

  10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Pacific

  Applying Methods is a Level 2 course that introduces practitioners to a large number of P2 methods. This includes learning how to design specific methods, developing good question design, and having an opportunity to practice running some methods.

  The course is suitable for practitioners who are part of a team implementing a P2 process and are looking for the practical skills to be effective in designing and applying methods.

  Course objectives:

  1. Identify a range of methods that can be used for various engagement purposes and processes, and strategies to select the most appropriate method/s for an engagement project/process.

  2. Research, design and test a F2F and/or online method using a range of tools and resources.

  3. Apply the four steps of designing a method incorporating the eight key components of method design.

  4. Develop rational and experiential aims.

  5. Design an appropriate format.

  6. Design questions and process.

  7. Develop appropriate communications.

  8. Combine methods to achieve engagement goals and objectives and test for appropriate sequencing.

  9. Incorporate inclusion and diversity principles

  10. Identify data management needs, evaluation points and measures.

  11. Identify resources required.

  12. Explore a variety of both F2F and online methods/ techniques that are more structured and have nested methods within them (e.g., Deliberative Processes, Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space Technology).

  13. Analyze the specific requirements for online and digital methods, identify and select appropriate platforms and tools to meet needs and strategize to develop these methods for delivery.

  14. Identify principles for monitoring online activity.

  15. Test the design by running elements of the method and submitting to peer review using a checklist.

  16. Apply methods to achieve engagement goals and objectives, including using effective communication skills, and test for appropriate sequencing.

  17. Design key messages and communication tools that build trust and integrity, and meet the needs of diverse audiences.

  Professional Certification/Credits
  

  • This course is required for IAP2 Professional Certification.
  • This course is eligible for APA - AICP Continuing Education Credit CM I 16 CM

  THIS COURSE
  

  Applying Methods for Public Participation (4 - 4 hour sessions CM I 16 CM) 
  

  November 14-17, 2023       1 PM – 5 PM ET
  

  Members $550 -- Regular $650 

  Last day to Register November 10, 2023

  PLEASE NOTE: IAP2 USA members must be logged in to receive the member rate. International IAP2 members can contact info@iap2usa.org for a code to register. 

   — Cancellation and Substitution policy —
  

  **You must first complete both Fundamentals of P2 and then Designing P2 before this course

  Completion of IAP2 Foundations in P2: Planning For Effective Public Participation prior to 2023 also counts as a prerequisite for this course**

  PREREQUISITE COURSES
  

  #1 Fundamentals of Public Participation (One 8 hour sessions CM I 8 CM) 

  September 13, 2023 -- Live at North American Conference -- 9 AM – 5 PM PT
  

  Members $275 --  Regular $325

  #2 Designing & Leading Public Participation (4 - 4 hour sessions CM I 16 CM) 
  

  September 26, 27, 28, 29, 2023       1 PM – 5 PM ET

  Members $550 -- Regular $650

  Certificate Program - All Three Modules (10 - 4 hour Sessions) 
            Regular $1,625  Members $1,375 

  
  

  Trainers: