“If you are interested in learning how public agencies can get things done
(from siting a new dump to closing a library, to instituting a traffic calming policy) you might consider the Bleikers’ courses . . .
Theirs is the only course notebook I’ve received in 25 years that I still pull out and use on a regular basis.”
-Jim Schroll, Transportation Engineer, Anne Arundel County, MD
Our 340 page Citizen Participation Handbook is the main text for our CPO Consent-Building courses. In it, you’ll find:
• the 60 CP Principles that govern how things work in the strange, sometimes counter-intuitive, world of Citizen Participation.
• the 15 CP Objectives that can make or break any proposal or recommendation
• the 70+ CP Techniques that you can have in your tool box. Tools you can use to fulfill your project’s CP Objectives.
Most important, the handbook also gives you a set of worksheets—with over 300 probing questions—for assessing your project’s CP needs. And the handbook instructs you in the step-by-step process for going from CP Needs-Assessment to CP Program Design.
Systematic Development of Informed Consent (SDIC)
Kansas City, MO: April 17 - 19, 2012
Lakewood, CO: May 22 - 24, 2012
Seattle, WA: October 2 - 4, 2012
Citizen Participation-by-Objectives (CPO)
Lakewood, CO: June 12 - 14, 2012
Leadership Bootcamp
Eventually to be Taught in Sequence of Online Modules
Monthly Brownbag Sessions
What to do When Feedback is Lop-Sided and Not Representative
Why don’t people believe that We AreListening?
How to Reverse the Phenomenon that “the Media Tends to Make Things Worse, not Better”
Why the Silence of Your Supporters is often Deafening
How can we get the Public’s “Consent” when Key-Players are Always Changing?
Why and How You Must Explain Why Some People have to Sacrifice for the Benefit of Others?
Focusing on Your Opponents: How Implementation Geniuses Overcome the Reflex to Avoid Them
How You can have a Rational Dialogue with Overly Emotional People