Facilitating Collaborative Public Decisions
A Video-Based Training Tool
Short Process
Long Process
Search for:
Primary Menu
Skip to content
Home
About This Site
About MLPA
Glossary
For alternative navigation, try the Topic Map
Keep Open
Show Topic Numbers
Print Version
Welcome
Collaborative Decision Making
What is it?
[1]
Why do it?
[2]
The Stages of a Collaborative Process
[3]
Matching the Process to the Situation
[4]
About the MLPA Initiative
A Ten-Year Public Process
[5]
MLPA Initiative Regional Designation Processes
[6]
Getting Started
Introducing Roles
Facilitator Introduction
[7]
Participant Introductions
[8]
Other Process Leadership Roles
[9]
Representation
[10]
Roles of Agencies
[11]
Roles of Tribes
[12]
Explaining Purpose and Scope
Setting Process Expectations
[13]
Preparing to Collaborate
[14]
Icebreaker: Hopes and Concerns About the Process
[15]
Establishing Boundaries
[16]
Clarifying Participant Responsibilities
[17]
Clarifying Group Decision Making
Establishing Ground Rules
[18]
Promoting a Joint Gains Approach
[19]
Establishing Decision Making Criteria such as Consensus
[20]
Alternatives to Consensus
[21]
Understanding Issues, Interests & Options
Identifying Issues and Interests
Discussing and Capturing Participant Interests
[22]
Highlighting Issues through Open Comment
[23]
Distinguishing between Positions and Interests
[24]
Directing Participants Towards Substantive Discussion
[25]
Learning from Prior Processes
[26]
Agendas and Sequencing
Using Agendas to Sequence Work
[27]
Using Parking Lots to Avoid Sidetracks
[28]
Addressing Topics at the Appropriate Point in a Process
[29]
Working Groups
Introducing Working Groups
[30]
Same-Interest Working Groups
[31]
Cross-Interest Working Groups
[32]
Impromptu Working Groups
[33]
Inventing Options to Deal with Issues
Guidelines for Brainstorming
[34]
Preventing Premature Judgment
[35]
Facilitating Productive Conversations
Supporting and Commending Participants
[36]
Recognizing and Rewarding Productive Behavior
[37]
Convening and Reconveining
[38]
Staying on Time
[39]
Closing on a Positive Note
[40]
Stakeholder Engagement
Overview: A two-way process
[41]
Public Comment Periods
[42]
Effective Comments
[43]
Ineffective Comments
[44]
Dialogues with Stakeholders
[45]
Working with Scientific and Technical Information
Balancing Sources of Knowledge
[46]
Confidentiality and Transparency
[47]
Communicating Complex Information
[48]
Cultivating Understanding through Dialogue
[49]
Assessing and Packaging
Shifting from Inventing to Narrowing
Introducing Proposal and Package Development
[50]
Narrowing Proposals and Packaging
Assembling Packages
[51]
Convergent Proposals
[52]
Encouraging Trades
[53]
Defining Criteria for Evaluation
[54]
Agreeing to Disagree
[55]
Visualization
Collaborative Data Visualization
[56]
Using Single Negotiating Texts
[57]
Assessing Preferences
Introducing Polls and Votes
[58]
Concerns about Binding Votes
[59]
Using Straw Polls
[60]
Reporting Results
[61]
Reaching Agreements
Capturing Points of Agreement
Identifying Points of Agreement
[62]
Revisiting Holdout Issues
[63]
Strategic Framing
[64]
Using Deadlines Strategically
[65]
Charting and Recording
[66]
Seeking Consensus
Encouraging Efforts to Reach Consensus
[67]
Using Trades to Build Consensus
[68]
Using Votes to Assemble Consensus Packages
[69]
Maintaining Control
Managing Tensions
Addressing Emotions, Exhaustion and Frustration
[70]
Dealing with Resistance to Group Agreements
[71]
Reminding Parties of their BATNAs
[72]
Finding Creative Solutions to Disagreements
[73]
Addressing Potentially Disruptive Behavior
Using Discretion in Dealing with Challenging Behavior
[74]
Interrupting Grandstanding and Filibustering
[75]
Getting at Underlying Interests
[76]
Addressing End-Runs Outside of the Process
[77]
Dealing with Personal Attacks and Off-putting Language
[78]
Addressing Challenges to Process Structure and Legitimacy
[79]
Managing and Ending Disruptions
[80]
Tribal Considerations
Complex and Interrelated Issues
Complex and Interrelated Issues
[81]
Understanding Tribal Sovereignty
Understanding Tribal Rights and Resource Uses
[82]
Differences among Tribal Governments
[83]
Tribal Participation and Process Facilitation
Managing with Responsiveness and Adaptability
[84]
Respecting Confidentiality
[85]
Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge
The Importance of TEK in Collaborative Processes
[86]
Addressing Perceived Conflict between Western Science and TEK
[87]
Ensuring Tribal Representation in Assessment Processes
[88]
Tribal Sovereignty and TEK in the MLPA
Building Guidance into Process Design
[89]
Incorporating TEK in Assessment Processes
[90]
To Learn More
To Learn More
To Learn More
[91]
Environmental Conflict Resolution Organizations
[92]
More Information on MPAs and the MLPA Initiative
[93]
Nothing Found
It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.
Search for:
A Video-Based Training Tool