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B7 Designing and Facilitating Complex Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
Level: All Levels

Multi-stakeholder groups can create intelligent, durable agreements - but they can be extremely challenging to facilitate. Using real-life case studies, this workshop demonstrates common mistakes and showcases many effective practices for working with difficult groups on complex problems.

Presenter:

Sam Kaner, Ph.D., has been named as “one of the world's leading experts in collaboration” (source: Sandor Schuman, Ph.D., IAF co-founder, and founding editor of the Journal of Group Facilitation.) Sam’s classic bestseller, Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, has gone through 17 printings and is now in its 2nd edition. Sam has been a featured speaker at more than 40 professional conferences, including several years at IAF North America. Since 1987 he has been the executive director of Community At Work, a San Francisco-based consulting firm that specializes in designing and facilitating collaborative approaches to complex system change.

 

 

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Monday, April 20
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Presented By:
Sam Kaner

Session Addresses These IAF Core Competencies:

Create collaborative client relationships

Plan appropriate group processes

Create and sustain a participatory environment

Guide group to appropriate and useful outcomes

Build and maintain professional knowledge

Model positive professional attitude

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