1. Walking in the shoes
After this piece was published on shooting, I was contacted by someone wishing to meet an eNGO director. Outcome – clearer mutual understanding of historically distorted and polarised issues.
2. Govt agency
Brokering a farm visit with off-record and on-record dialogue for a newly appointed govt official. Outcome – government adviser learning, two ways.
3. Media-sensitive comms
Advising on sensitive communications prior to a high profile event. Outcome – avoiding use of social media without context.
4. Field intel
Gathering intelligence in the field. Outcome – informing wider stakeholder conversations, joining the dots, and linking people in the east (July 2021), west, north southwest and north, and nor’we’east here (Nov 2025)
5. Perception without prejudice
Challenging a range of organisations to evaluate how others perceive them. Outcome – breaking down barriers and navigating perceptions to enable constructive exchange of ideas.
6. Views without labels
Chairing a conference on pollinators with eNGOs, farmers, scientists and an MP to let people speak freely, without labels. Outcome – enabling people to be heard, without prejudice – and others to learn.
7. Thinking outside the box
Thinking outside the box on a walk with eNGO rangers. Outcome – major historic landowner reviewed how they liaise with farm tenants.
8. Framing complex
Moderating sessions at this conference to enable a diversity of views to be heard. Outcome – ensuring wider understanding and reducing ‘single ownership‘ of contested narratives.
9. Focus on people, not headlines
Framing the headline on a difficult subject in a different way. Outcome – the subject explored outside the usual parameters of a potentially polarising conversation.
10. Safe space for robust conversations
Curating a range of interested parties with moderated audience roving mics. Outcome – discovering more common ground between regulators, utilities, conservationists, anglers, hunters, rewilders, farmers, foresters than is often reported.
11. Navigating partnerships
Commissioned by a govt nature agency, eNGO and landowner partnership on a demonstration project on a contested land use funding the management of nature designated areas. Outcome – a range of interested parties/stakeholders learning lessons from a 25 year project and alongside film editors.
Curlew collaboratives
Compering a diverse audience workshop for curlews. Outcome – better understanding about the tools, such as habitat and wildlife predator management required for this species of conservation concern
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