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E's Unlimited has broad and varied experience
with all aspects of the
public
participation and can guarantee it will be transparent,
consensual, and inclusive through the application of private,
non-judgmental, non-coercive transformative
facilitation.
In projects we have worked on requiring public consultation
workshop design, including Whistler, BC, Dauphin Island,
AL, and the Chequamegon Bay region, WI, we have employed
methods such as Technology of Participation (TOP), Collaborative
Community Problem-Solving, Appreciative Inquiry (AI), Open
Space Technology (OST), Pattern Mapping, Design Charrettes,
and the World Café process.
We see our public
participation practice as the foundation for achieving
the following in our community work:
- understanding
for where the community has been with planning activities
that
will appreciably inform the project and what the
stakeholder aspirations and core values look like
regarding a future, sustainable community, which
will require;
- the
community’s
deep and extensive science-based understanding of
ecological, economic, and social sustainability,
in all of its temporal, spatial and systemic dimensions,
communicated effectively to participants and stakeholders
in a way that inspires vision and action, to inform;
- a thoroughly
community-based and community-driven process of deliberation
and
decision making, engaging all stakeholders in the
identity of weaknesses and threats as well as community
assets, and capable of guiding the making of difficult
trade-offs while creating cohesive win-win solutions,
whose outcomes are expressed in;
- a solid, comprehensive,
implementable strategic plan fulfilling all best-practice
planning and statutory requirements, which will identify
the necessary resources to overcome challenges and
take advantage of opportunities, and will be a model
for change management that effectively guides the
community in actions toward a successful, resiliently
enduring future.
Five
E's can effectively resolve your group's
conflicts through our diverse experience with dispute
resolution processes. But we firmly believe it requires
a civic
critical mass of stakeholder involvement and
personal change because the level of consciousness
that caused
the conflict is not the level of consciousness that
we will focus upon to help you resolve it.
We Can Assist
You:
- by reframing
your group's understanding of the issues related
to the conflict or dispute;
- by maintaining
the dignity of each individual involved;
- by resolving
group conflicts in a way that will lead to more sustainable
lifestyles; and
- by facilitating
the conflict to its natural conclusion, a shared
vision of a sustainable future toward which to build,
that is fully committed to by all parties.
Through its design
of project-specific facilitation and mediation approaches,
Five E's Unlimited helps
stakeholders
and jurisdictions
arrive at authentic choices and consensus-based solutions.
We develop an assessment of present circumstances and then
help clients find common-ground, long-term solutions by
evaluating, articulating, and clarifying crucial controversies
and identifying strategies to advance identified objectives.
Our application
of the “Art of Complex Problem Solving” (from
Marshall Clemens’ Indiagram Art of Insight and Action),
helps groups look beyond solving problems one at a time,
to the development and understanding of systems that prevent
problems from re-occurring or perhaps ever occurring in
the first place.
Likewise, we have
found that an intentional participatory process involving
all stakeholders can lay
the groundwork for a shift from conventional jurisdictional
management to adaptive, learning-based co-management,
supported by what we like to call “Citizen Science” – the
public-way-of-knowing balanced with the expert-way-of-knowing.
This is evidenced in our work in Guemes Island (WA), Bayfield
(WI), and Rathlin Island (Northern Ireland).
Check
out our different facilitation
and mediation projects
and discover what we can do for you.
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