It takes everyone to make and maintain long term change in our movements! To that end, this learning guide provides resources to support development and cultivation of healthy networks within and across organizations.
These tools will support effective communication with partners, building interpersonal communication skills, navigating conflict, and engaging in a culture of feedback, growth, and accountability.
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Building the Network You Need: Movement Moai Worksheet
The following questions will help you think through building your moai (social support network) to support you during times of stress, threat and uncertainty. Remember, we want to build the relationships we need before we actually need them for yourself and your organization. So take some time now to answer these questions and then list out in the matrix below an intentional group you can call on for support, now and in the future.
DEI Toolkit 4: Partnerships and Community Engagement
Partnerships and Community Engagement provides guidance for developing ethical partnerships, particularly with Indigenous communities, and navigating disagreements or challenges in the community without backtracking on your DEI values.
Playing the Long Game: Rethinking Relationships to Build Long-Term Power
This webinar provides an introduction to community power mapping, an alternative to traditional power mapping that allows us to better understand the power dynamics in our community and who has influence. We explore how to understand our strategic position, work as a collective to avoid conflicting environmental goals, and win more campaigns.
Getting Things Right from the Start: Picking Good Partners and Strategic Campaigns
This webinar will introduce inclusive strategies for prioritizing partnerships which build collective power and create more powerful campaigns. We will discuss tools for choosing which relationships to invest in, how to respectfully engage new partners, keys to establishing a healthy collaboration, and tips for picking the right campaign for you, your partners, and your community.
Healthy Networks: Engaging in the Community, Collaborating, and Supporting the Work of Others
Communities are engaged when they play a meaningful role in the decision-making and implementation of programs and services. Join us for a lively panel discussion where our guests share case studies highlighting innovative community engagement strategies and recommendations for leaders looking to move from intention to impact.
Effective Community and Stakeholder Engagement
How can you more effectively engage traditionally under-engaged communities and stakeholders in conservation management decision-making processes? Join The Avarna Group as they lay out some strategies from the Community and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies toolkit (copublished by The Wilderness Society).
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Coalitions & Collaborations
The Partnership Prioritization Matrix: So many partners, so little time
Many organizations are struggling with where to invest the precious time they have for building and maintaining relationships. By balancing shared vision and values with complimentary skills and approach, the Partnership Prioritization Matrix is an inclusive match-making tool which can help your organization clarify where to prioritize your relationships.
Moving from Transactional Organizing to Building Long Term Relationships
What does it mean to engage people today? In order to be successful, we need to be able to communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, including rural communities. And beyond talking with them, we need to build sustaining relationships.
Working with Agencies
This session will give valuable insights into working with US agencies from multiple angles, drawing on the experience of former departmental employees Meryl Harrell and Don Barry.
Staying True to Your Values While Reaching Across the Divide
Join the Avarna Group as we lay out some guiding questions that will allow you to move forward with relationships with people and individuals whose values don’t align with your own, without compromising your values.
Effective Facilitation
De-escalating Conflict
Conservation organizations have faced increasing external conflict and attacks that antagonize their work in a variety of settings. This webinar provides skills and tips to address and de-escalate different types of conflict and attacks.
Guide to Meeting Facilitation & Participation
Use this guide to meeting facilitation and participation to have more impactful self-facilitated meetings at your organization.
Partnering with Indigenous Groups
Ethical Spaces: A Framework for Indigenous Relations
In this primer on Ethical spaces, learn the fundamentals of how to create meaningful, reciprocal engagement between indigenous and non-indigenous groups, as well as identifying the barriers that often get in the way when trying to utilize traditional ecological knowledge.
Improving your Partnerships with US Indigenous Communities
This webinar will address “better” practices on how to talk with Indigenous communities about conservation and land protection as allies and partners. “Better” practices include addressing the failures of the past, challenges of the present, and future considerations of land management, traditional knowledge, and meaningful relationships.
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