- Kathleen McClaflin, Transportation Planner, California Department of Transportation
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)
Seattle, WA: October 12 - 14, 2010
Citizen Participation-by-Objectives (CPO)
Seattle, WA: October 26 - 28, 2010
Leadership Bootcamp
Available Soon as a Sequence of Online Modules
Monthly Brownbag Sessions
Why Implementations Geniuses are Respected, Not Maligned or Unappreciated
Using the Bleiker Life Preserver as a Quick-and-Dirty Consent Building Tactic
How to Maximize Input and Minimize Pseudo-Input
The Tactic of Fishbowl Planning
Understanding Higher Values versus Object-Related Values
How Mere Stagehands Can Expose Hidden Agendas
Why You Need to Focus on Consent Rather Than Consensus
Nurturing and Protecting Your (and Your Agency’s) Credibility