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.
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2. Govt agency
Brokering a farm visit with off-record and on-record dialogue. Outcome – government adviser learning.
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3. Media-sensitive comms
Advising on sensitive communications. Outcome – preventing use of social media without context.
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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.
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5. Perception without prejudice
Challenging organisations to evaluate how others perceive them. Outcome – breaking down barriers to enable exchange of ideas.
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6. Views without labels
Chairing a conference to let people speak, without labels. Outcome – enabling people to be heard, without prejudice.
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7. Thinking outside the box
Thinking outside the box on a walk. Outcome – landowner reviewed how they liaised with farm tenants.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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