Explore the framework we use to approach any community engagement challenge. Learn about the best ways to involve key stakeholders in decision making processes and how to manage expectations from your constituents, funders and residents while still leading impactful public participation work.  

Sessions available in 2 hour and 5 hour sections dependent on need. Longer trainings involve a deeper dive into case study examples and best practices.  

Learn how to incorporate fun, interactive, low-cost digital tools into an Open House-style digital event. We'll go over how to run a successful digital event and outreach campaign, and explore how to use event follow-up to build momentum.

2 hour session

There are many open-source data options to help you assess how to best reach your community members. In this workshop, we'll go over the best already-available datasets to help support your engagement strategy and explore how to integrate them into your work.

Sessions available in 2 hour and 5 hour sections dependent on needed. Longer trainings involve a deeper dive into case study examples and best practices. 

How can you plan and run a successful digital focus group? We'll teach your team how to run a focus group to get the information you need to know, provide guiding principles to help shape your process, and provide tools to use what you learn from focus groups throughout a planning process.

2 hour session.

One-on-one interviews with key stakeholders are typical in planning. We'll talk about when to use interviews, how to hold a successful interview, and how to keep your interviewees in the loop.

2 hour session.

This workshop explores how to convert community development and urban planning jargon into accessible language that's easy for your community to understand and easy to translate into other languages. We'll explore how to make your messaging clear and engaging and how to work with a translation agency to reach new groups.

2 hour session.