Facilitating Collaborative Public Decisions: A Video-Based Training Tool
Channel: OCTO (Open Communications for the Ocean)
Date: 2016-11-10

This webinar originally aired on 10 November 2016.

Whether you are a stakeholder, facilitator, agency official, or student, this tool can help you understand and facilitate real-world public decision making processes. Using multimedia examples drawn from the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, the tool enables users to explore strategies for facilitating the different stages of collaborative decision making. This tool was created to help a variety of users expand their expertise and increase their understanding of facilitation strategies, challenges, and steps in a collaborative process. The tool is located at http://www.snre.umich.edu/ecomgt/mlpavideo/.

This webinar was presented by Steven Yaffee of the University of Michigan, and it was co-sponsored by the NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News, and the EBM Tools Network (co-coordinated by NatureServe and OpenChannels.org).