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201: Effective Tribal Consultation - 2 days
This course lays the groundwork for key concepts of government-to-government consultation including creating and sustaining valuable relations to build trust between sovereigns. Participants build awareness of different ways to manage information, communication, decision making, roles, and responsibilities. They will also deepen their appreciation for and understanding of tribal preferences, the meaning of cultural and sacred sites, and of how historic events and federal Indian policies have shaped government-to-government relationships. $950/participant
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210: Collaboration in NEPA - 2 days
Learn how to integrate more effective collaboration in the environmental planning process under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), focusing on planning and design to extend guidance from the President’s Council on Environmental Quality’s Handbook on Collaboration and NEPA. $695/participant
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301: Facilitation Fundamentals - 2 days
Participants will prepare for facilitating in connection with an environmental dispute, and collaborations, including the challenges serving as an “in-house” facilitator for an organization involved in the dispute. Participants will practice planning and convening dispute resolution and collaborative processes, and managing the complexities of group dynamics and meeting interactions. This course requires prior experience with environmental conflict situations and organizational skills. $695/participant
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310: Collaboration Technology - 2 days
This course is an intensive, hands-on workshop for environmental collaboration and conflict resolution (ECCR) facilitators, public agencies, and stakeholders to develop a familiarity of the wide range of technologies useful in public engagement and decision making associated with environmental collaboration and dispute resolution. This course will focus on concepts, tools, and applications, including methods for selecting tools for different kinds of projects, as well as techniques for successfully using and applying these tools. $950/participant
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| Advanced |
401: Collaboration Skills for Environmental Professionals - 3 days
This course builds the necessary skills that help individuals work more effectively and efficiently in collaborative contexts. It helps environmental and natural resource managers develop advanced skills in communication, collaboration, negotiation, and conflict management. $950/participant
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410: Advanced Multi-Party Negotiation of Environmental Disputes - 2 days
This course builds awareness and skill in dealing with complex, multi-party negotiations that require systematic and rigorous planning, and increases the potential for consensus decision making and sustainable results. Participants in this course apply principles of Interest-Based Negotiation, self-awareness, and group dynamics to complex multi-party negotiations to resolve environmental disputes and maximize sustainable solutions. Participants will also assess their current capacity in communication, relationship building, and conflict style. A scenario-based practice opportunity will be used to analyze a complex environmental dispute and formulate a plan of action for dealing with both immediate and longer term needs. $695/participant
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501: Collaboration Skills for Environmental Leaders - 2 days
To work more effectively and efficiently, environmental leaders need to lead at all levels in the process, including multi-stakeholder working groups, collaborative activity within their own organizations, and as part of multi-stakeholder leadership councils. This course examines the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors of highly effective individual collaborators, and organizational/team leadership supporting collaborative efforts. This course is an intensive workshop focused on collaboration as a core skill needed by leaders dealing with environmental issues. A conceptual model for collaboration and conflict management provides the framework for practice in applying concepts to real-world situations. Participants build skills through a series of scenario-based exercises, including complex, environmental conflict-based settings. This course also introduces some of the online tools currently available to aid collaborative efforts addressing environmental issues. $950/participant
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