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Collaborative Problem Solving |
- Interest-based negotiation (IBN)
- Multi-party negotiation
- Dynamics assessment of individuals and groups
- Conflict prevention, management and resolution tools
- Communication skills for negotiators
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- Strategic thinking & complex problem solving for negotiators
- Managing public participation
- Collaborative data gathering /analysis
- Collaboration/relationship building
- Collaboration in NEPA
- Public policy & decision-making
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| Government-to-Government |
Relationship Building & Leadership |
- Consultation
- Cultural awareness
- Designing intercultural collaborative processes
- Understanding tribal sovereignty
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- Interpersonal skill development
- Group dynamics in environmental conflict
- Team building & collaboration tools
- Relationship building, networking & alliance building skills
- Facilitation & facilitative leadership
- Interagency/intragency cultures & institutional dynamics
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505: Advanced Management of Environmental Issues -
2 days
Provides a practicum for high level managers to explore best practices in ECR, triage complex environmental disputes, create constructive atmosphere and dialogue, champion teams, and enable solutions. Use a scenario-based practice opportunity to analyze complex environmental disputes and formulate a plan of action for dealing with both immediate and longer term needs. PREREQUISITES: All lower level ECR courses or equivalent training
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510: Advanced - Conflict Resolution for Environmental Disputes -
2 days
Provides a practicum for high level managers to explore: advanced communication, facilitation and mediation skills, difficult conversations, dealing with an angry public, value-driven issues, understanding conflict and personality styles, and getting past difficult challenges. PREREQUISITES: All lower level ECR courses or equivalent training
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Collaboration Fundamentals for TCAPP Pilot & Collaboration Process Participants [BY INVITATION ONLY] -
2 days
This course has been designed for TCAPP pilot and collaboration process participants from existing Institute courses to focus on fundamental concepts of, and skills practice for, the essentials of collaboration, interest-based negotiation, environmental conflict resolution (ECR), and essential communication skills.
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Collaborative Problem Solving of Environmental Conflicts -
1 day
Sharpen your negotiation mindset with strategic thinking and complex problem-solving skills; expand collaborative potential through relationship building; integrate data gathering to better manage public participation; identify opportunities to integrate collaboration into public processes, policy and decision-making.
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Environmental Conflict Resolution Skills for Cultural Resources Professionals -
1 day
This condensed one-day workshop will be delivered as part of the 2011 American Cultural Resource Association Conference in St. Charles, Missouri. The workshop was developed by the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, and will be taught by staff from the Institute and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Dispute Resolution Service. This training is intended for cultural resource professionals and others working with Section 106 and the National Historic Preservation Act and focuses on conflict resolution and intercultural communications.
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Facilitative Leadership in ECR -
2 days
Improve your ability to: analyze complex environmental problems; organize steps, people and information; read other people and appreciate their needs, opinions and agendas; speak and listen effectively, adapt your communication styles; invent solutions in real time; know when to intervene, transition to new issue, and when to bring closure.
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Intro to Tribal Consultation -
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Negotiating and Responding to Government-to-Government Challenges -
3 days
Deepen your cultural awareness, understanding of tribal sovereignty, and appreciation for long-term relationships with tribes in order to design effective, collaborative consultation.
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Negotiating Environmental Disputes involving Toxic Substances and Disease -
4 days
This training will combine skills taught in Negotiating Environmental Solutions and Advanced Multi-Party Negotiation of Environmental Disputes, along with inter-cultural communication and trust-building. The scenario-based simulation for the exercises in this training will revolve around negotiation of perceived risks of environmental toxic waste sites.
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Self-Managed Facilitation of Collaborative Work Groups working on Environmental Conflicts -
2 days
Expand capacity to: derive energy from diversity, optimize contributions of group members, establish ground rules and joint strategies to expedite routine decisions, convert conflict into creative opportunity, manage power-based conflicts, improve group decision-making, identify strategies for acquiring resources.
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