1. Walking in the shoes
After this piece was published, I was contacted by someone wishing to meet a senior eNGO representative. Outcome – clearer mutual understanding of historically distorted and polarised issues.
2. Govt agency
Brokering a farm visit with off-record and on-record dialogue. Outcome – government adviser learning.
3. Media-sensitive comms
Advising on sensitive communications. Outcome – preventing 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, west, north southwest and north.
5. Perception without prejudice
Challenging organisations to evaluate how others perceive them. Outcome – breaking down barriers to enable exchange of ideas.
6. Views without labels
Chairing a conference to let people speak, without labels. Outcome – enabling people to be heard, without prejudice.
7. Thinking outside the box
Thinking outside the box on a walk. Outcome – landowner reviewed how they liaised with farm tenants.
8. Framing complex
Moderating events at this conference to enable fresh views to be heard. Outcome – ensuring wider understanding and reducing ‘single ownership‘ of contested narratives.
9. Focus on people, not headlines
By framing the headline in a different way. Outcome – the subject can be 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 common ground between regulators, utilities, conservationists, anglers, hunters, rewilders, farmers, foresters et al.
11. Navigating partnerships
Commissioned by a partnership to articulate contested narratives on land use while funding the management of nature designated areas. Outcome – to learn lessons from a 25 year long demonstration project
Curlew collaboratives
Compering a diverse audience, with different values, for pragmatic action for curlews. Outcome – better interdisciplinary understanding about the tools, such as habitat and predator management, required for a species of conservation concern
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