Agenda
Collaboration that Works!
December 6 -7, 2012
Day 1, December 6th, 2012
9:00
Registration, coffee and light refreshments
10:00 Opening Session
10:20 Keynote-Collaborative Integrity
Tony Faast, Director, Cascade Outreach Institute
Sue Disciple, Principal, Sue Disciple Group
Tony Faast and Sue Disciple have been training partners for 20 years; blending the experience of
high stakes collaboration ranging from federal dam relicensing to community crisis events to
endangered species and agency futuring. Presenters will share their parallel experiences of
advocating key principles of Ethics, Momentum and Closure as the collaborative framework that
has helped them resolve many public and private sector issues.
11:00 Understanding “Collaborators”
We will examine the characteristics of how individuals perceive and process information and the
influence of that information on how people interact in a collaborative process.
12:00
1:00
Lunch
Breakout sessions
Exploring the Collaborative Spectrum
Strategy, participation, timing and tactics are essential to collaborative success. When and how
to involve a larger public, making group decisions and presenting final results to decision-makers
are critical steps in this effort. Learn proven strategies and tactics on how to analyze your
collaboration project and make essential decisions for success.
Building a Collaborative Team
Your collaborative effort is a team project! Landowners, agencies, NGO’s and citizens all have a
stake in the outcome. Learn the components of how teams form and how they function (or not!)
when trying to solve problems as a group.
Leading the Collaborative Process
Successful collaboration needs strategy, structure, and a functioning process to be successful
over time. Learn the key elements for setting up, maintaining and getting closure on a
collaborative issue.
3:00
Break
3:30
Breakout sessions
Exploring the Collaborative Spectrum
Building a Collaborative Team
Leading the Collaborative Process
5:30
Reception – no host
6:30
Dinner
7:15
Collaboration in Action
Connie Hatfield and her late husband co- founded Oregon Country Beef and have been nationally
recognized for sustainable beef production, as well as for their leaderships in watershed management
and ecologically sensitive livestock grazing.
Connie Hatfield and her husband the late Doc Hatfield were instrumental in bringing landowners,
agencies, and environmentalists together to discuss the impacts of livestock grazing on the riparian
areas located on Trout Creek Mountain. At risk was the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout. The Trout Creek
Mountain experience demonstrates how people representing varied and often opposing interests can
build bridges of understanding and common interest between concerned constituencies, and work
collaboratively for successful results. In this session we will watch a video of the initial collaborative
effort that resulted in a new management plan that was biologically sound. Connie will share her
perspective on what made the collaboration process work, talk about what has happened since the
management plan was completed, and share her story of how this group has worked over the years to
keep the collaborative process rolling along as new issues arise.
8:00
Close day
Day 2, December 7th, 2012
7:30
Breakfast
8:45
Welcome and Introduction to the day
9:00
Strategic Analysis – a critical tool for success
The Strategic Analysis Worksheet is a tool with key questions you need to answer to embark on
a successful collaboration process. You will use this tool to analyze your collaboration efforts,
and identify the strengths and areas to work on.
9:50
Break
10:20
Break outs – choose one
Conflict
An analysis of why & how conflict occurs in groups. Learn how to handle the five identified types
of conflict, and how to plan for prevention / intervention.
Strategy Clinic
A chance to work with Collaboration Instructors on your collaborative situation! Time devoted
to analyzing, troubleshooting, and designing a successful strategy for your unique situation using
tools/ techniques presented at the conference
Facilitation Finesse
Facilitation is the key to collaborative group success. Our most experienced facilitators will cover
32 key tools, techniques and strategies to help you facilitate your collaborative group
successfully.
12:20
Break – heavy refreshments (no lunch)
12:40
Closing the Collaboration Loop – Results oriented strategy
One of the most overlooked, but essential elements, of an effective collaboration process is
bringing it to closure. Don’t leave your process stalled out, languishing, or in perpetual meeting
mode-Attend the closure to this workshop.
1:20
Wrap
1:30
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