Colorado's natural resources are facing increasing pressure due to population growth, changing climatic conditions and natural disasters, such as flooding and wildfires. These pressures make it difficult for community leaders and natural resource managers to protect and manage shared resources for multiple uses. Concern over Colorado's natural resources sometimes invokes conflict between competing interests, so it is essential to find common ground and promote collaboration and teamwork in an environment where fairness, integrity, and responsibility are both expected and rewarded.
Differences can be engaged productively when stakeholders become more knowledgeable about public issues, communicate in a more meaningful and effective way, open the debate to include all stakeholders, and negotiate in principled ways to settle disagreements.
Over the last decade, communities have been called upon to respond to disasters and manage resources as never before. Collaboration is essential to effective community planning and preparedness, and often leads to new approaches and solutions. This Leadership Workshop will provide participants with tools to effectively engage their communities in discussion and debate that leads to collaborative problem-solving.
Workshop Components
- Stakeholder panel on Issues Facing Communities in Flood Response/Mitigation
- Skills training in organizing collaboration and communication
- Skills training in public meeting facilitation
- Field trip to site of Lyons Flood
- Stakeholder panel on Collaborative Flood Response Planning Success Stories
Location
Meetings will be held at two Boulder locations: the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Colorado's Institute of Behavioral Sciences building. Lodging options are available nearby. More details and directions will be sent with registration.
Workshop tuition of $100 includes materials and breakfast and lunch both days.Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come first-served basis.
Who should attend?
Representatives from local, state and federal agencies; elected officials; industry representatives and small business-owners; academicians; representatives of civic and non-governmental conservation organizations; and concerned and active citizens..
To enroll, please contact:
University of Denver Conflict Resolution Institute
2201 S. Gaylord St., Sie 161
Denver, CO 80210
Phone: 303.871.7685
Fax: 303.871.2124
Online Registration: http://alumni.du.edu/ccli-2015
Additional Questions: cricrp@du.edu
For information: tdestree@du.edu;
For additional information: spa.events@ucdenver.edu
