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 polarising issues within a wider context.
2. River activism
Hosting a panel discussion with river campaigners, a water company and fishery conservationists. Outcome: pre-pitched questions and directed framing of topics enabled a wider range of discussions, audience interaction to air the issues alongside suggest solutions.
3. Govt official
Arranging and curating a farm visit with off-record and on-record dialogue for a newly appointed govt official. Outcome – government adviser learning, two ways.
4. Framing complex land issues
Moderating sessions at a rewilding conference to enable a diversity of views to be heard. Outcome – ensuring wider understanding and reducing ‘single ownership’ of contested environmental narratives.
5. Media-sensitive comms
Advising on sensitive communications prior to a high profile event. Outcome – avoiding use of social media without context.
6. Field intel gathering
Gathering intelligence in the field as to what people think and do, over what they say. Outcome – informing wider conversations, joining the dots, and linking people in the east (July 2021), west, north southwest and north, and nor’we’east here (Nov 2025)
7. Ecosystem engineering
Briefing and chairing a panel of environmental leaders at a political party fringe event on nature restoration. Outcome – wider framing of context and audience interaction enabled greater engagement and lesser partisan polarisation.
8. 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.
9. 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, and for others to learn.
10. Outside the box
Thinking outside the box on a walk and talk with land rangers. Outcome – major eNGO landowner re-examining how they liaise with farm tenants.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Navigating partnerships
Commissioned by a partnership on a multi-agency demonstration project on a contested land use funding the management of nature designated areas. Outcome – a range of interested parties learning lessons from a 25 year project.
14. Curlew collaboratives
Compering a diverse audience (environmentalists/farmers/gamekeepers) workshop for curlews. Outcome – better understanding about the tools, incl habitat creation and wildlife management, required for a species of conservation concern
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