IAP2's Designing and Leading Public Participation

  • May 13, 2024
  • May 16, 2024
  • 4 sessions
  • May 13, 2024, 10:00 AM 3:00 PM (MDT)
  • May 14, 2024, 10:00 AM 3:00 PM (MDT)
  • May 15, 2024, 10:00 AM 3:00 PM (MDT)
  • May 16, 2024, 10:00 AM 3:00 PM (MDT)
  • Online with Trainer Cassie Hemphill

Designing and Leading Public Participation

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

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.

About the event: 

  • Dates: May 13-16, 2024
  • Times: 10:00-12:00 + 13:00-15:00 MDT / 12:00-14:00 + 15:00-17:00 EDT (There is a 1-hour break between sessions on each day)
  • Cost: Members $550 -- Regular $650 Please contact us to receive the member discount code


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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-negotiable
    • 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 maker
  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

Cost: Members $550 -- Regular $650

This is an IAP2 core training course delivered externally by an IAP2 licensed trainer.

Trainer: Cassie Hemphill 

Cassie Hemphill has more than 25 years of experience in designing and leading public participation and engagement processes and projects. Her work has included environmental and natural resource management, healthcare delivery, education, and community-based human services. She has been creating and delivering remote and in-person training experiences for professionals and community members for more than 15 years.

Cassie has been involved with IAP2 since 2003. She helped create IAP2 USA’s Professional Certification program, assisted with updates and development of IAP2’s course materials, and has served on the USA and Intermountain Chapter boards. She currently serves as an IAP2 Licensing Programme Mentor, preparing candidates from around the world to become IAP2 Licensed Trainers.

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).



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