Community Collaborative Learning

The Center offers learning support to the greater Sacramento-area community through local partner organizations.

• Community Participation and Dispute Resolution
• Interest-Based Negotiation (For Planning and Resource Management)

Community Participation and Dispute Resolution

1.2 CEU. 12 hours MCLE credit

Offered through the University of California, Davis Extension in Sacramento. http://www.extension.ucdavis.edu/

This new two-day workshop brings a team of experts in the field of community involvement and public policy dispute resolution together to train participants. How many of us have been involved in workshops that did not work, processes that bogged down and well-intentioned community exercises that fell short? This course is designed to provide you with techniques, process design skills and hands-on facilitation/mediation practice and tips to make community interaction meaningful and effective.

Participants can expect the following:

• learn about current trends, issues and historical approaches to community participation and dispute resolution;
• learn about the variety of “cutting edge” techniques and approaches in the field (e.g. interest-based negotiation, community visioning, large group workshops, visual preference) and when and how to use one approach versus another;
• gain hands-on working knowledge of interest-based policy collaboration as practiced by the Center for Collaborative Policy as one approach to resolving complex and seemingly intractable community issues; and
• practice facilitation, mediation, recording and interaction skills.

Anyone who is required to administer, design, facilitate or attend public workshops and participatory or collaborative efforts will find this course useful. Even those who will simply attend or participate in collaborative processes will gain the ability to interact more effectively and move the process toward outcomes. The instructors have experience in applying these techniques to a wide range of situations including urban planning and growth management, water policy, ecological analysis, public finance, environmental impact, economic development and transportation policy and planning.

For information about the next offering of this course, contact UC Davis Extension. http://www.extension.ucdavis.edu/

Interest-Based Negotiation
(For Planning and Resource Management)

.6 CEU and 6 hours of MCLE credit

Offered through the University of California, Davis Extension in Sacramento. http://www.extension.ucdavis.edu/

This course provides an understanding of the principles of interest-based negotiation and collaboration, as they apply to public policy issues in land use planning, environmental policy and resource management. Participants will learn about different approaches to collaboration, and specific techniques such as:

• Comprehensive assessment of a situation and determining when it is useful to collaborate and what challenges you will face;
• Design of a collaborative program including selection of stakeholders, to determining what type of venues will be most effective and establishing decision rules;
• Developing precise agendas and being able to adhere to them in meetings;
• Integrating scientific information into the process effectively
• Learning how to create meaningful options that meet multiple interests in complex and controversial settings;
• Learning to negotiate with difficult people; and
• Learning to provide assurances, monitoring and adaptive management in sustainable agreements.

Participants will also have a chance to practice several of the key skills needed to be a successful mediator or negotiator: distinguishing positions from interests; creating options for mutual gain; and reframing comments and ideas to achieve agreements.

Case studies will be used to highlight successful approaches to achieving lasting agreements, and to illustrate common pitfalls in the process and how to avoid or overcome them. Cases are drawn from water policy disputes, large scale and project-based land use planning situations, environmental disputes and watershed planning and management.

For information about the next offering of this course, contact UC Davis Extension. http://www.extension.ucdavis.edu/