Beyond community consultation
Tips for working with and enabling action by local communities
What lies beyond consultation? Beyond co-design?
Professionals working in governments, non-profits and businesses are often stretched to breaking point. How could they be more effective by working with and enabling action by local businesses and residents?
This course explains how to go well beyond standard community consultation processes and co-design, to better work with and enable action by local communities.
Why do this online course?
- Save time and reduce the risks by learning what to do and not do before you begin
- Understand the differences between community consultation and community engagement
- Tips and examples of going well beyond community consultation
- Discover 11 practical tactics to promote Doing By the community
Who is it designed for?
This course is written for professionals working in governments, agencies, charities, non-profits, community centres, consultancies, developers and businesses.
This is self-paced online learning that you can fit around your busy schedule. Allow about 1.5 to 2 hours to complete. Learn at your own pace, when you want, where you want. You have 5 months access to the course.
What will it help you with?
- How to add value to a project by positively engaging with stakeholders and the community
- Practical, real-world examples
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The potential options and how to implement them
Community consultation and engagement are different
Do you want to consult people? Or engage them? There are some big differences, as shown in the graphic below.
We explore and explain this further in the course.
What is the course based on?
The course builds on the work of:
- Cormac Russell and the Asset-Based Community Development approach;
- Jon Alexander's work on citizenship;
- Seth Kaplan's work on fragile and flourishing communities; and
- The placemaking mindset and process, as 'road-tested' through Town Team Movement's work on the ground in dozens of communities in Australia and New Zealand.
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Curriculum
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If you would prefer to purchase access for multiple students in one transaction and/or pay via tax invoice, please email your request to hello@placemaking.education and we can arrange it.
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