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![Past as Present: Facilitating Collaborative Processes with Those Historically Wronged]()
Past as Present: Facilitating Collaborative Processes with Those Historically Wronged
March 11, 2019
How do fundamental issues of identity, justice, and power affect the facilitation of dialogue with groups that include individuals who have experienced injustice? How does one’s own identity as a facilitator affect the ability to remain neutral and help these groups address challenges? Managing Director Pat Field reflects on lessons learned from engagements over his 25 years as a facilitator and mediator.
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![Collaboration and Offshore Wind Development]()
Collaboration and Offshore Wind Development
March 11, 2019
Offshore wind development is rapidly accelerating in U.S waters – and diverse new and traditional users, and their interests, need to be balanced. Senior Mediator Bennett Brooks and Managing Director Patrick Field suggest that processes must accommodate substantial uncertainty as agencies, stakeholders, and developers venture into previously uncharted waters. They argue that collaboration among participating agencies and across jurisdictions is key to sustaining cooperation and trust, and avoiding costly and painful conflict as offshore wind development expands.
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![CBI Launched Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative]()
CBI Launched Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative
March 11, 2019
Core to CBI’s mission is our belief that all who may be affected by a decision should have a voice in the conversation. Including the perspectives of marginalized or underrepresented populations is important morally, and practically, to ensure wise and durable agreements. CBI is engaging in a process to explore how well we are living the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our organization and in our work. We offer some initial insights about how to thoughtfully undertake a DEI initiative.
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Spring 2019: CBI in Action
March 11, 2019
A snapshot of ongoing and recent work.
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Spring 2019: Staff Updates
March 14, 2019
Congratulating our promoted staff and welcoming our new members
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![CBI Participates in WGBH Designing Boston Panel:]()
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![Volunteer Committees: Set Them Up for Success!]()
Volunteer Committees: Set Them Up for Success!
November 28, 2018
Some of CBI's most rewarding projects have been with local committees that engage members of the community to make important decisions that affect that community or region. As CBI Senior Mediator Carri Hulet reflected on some of these facilitations, a number of insights and learnings surfaced about how to set up, support, and reward these volunteer bodies. Here are four suggestions for choosing the right people, setting the right expectations, and providing the right support right off the bat.
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CBI’s Facilitation of Groundwater Sustainability Agency Formation Serves as Model for Other Complex Challenges in County
November 27, 2018
Pointing to the effectiveness of CBI’s facilitation in the formation of a groundwater sustainability agency, Monterey County leaders encourage a similar approach to develop a land use transition plan for a former military base.
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CBI, working with National Charrette Institute (NCI), to assess opportunities for regional visioning for Lakewood, NJ
November 26, 2018
CBI and NCI are working with a broad coalition of leaders from Lakewood, NJ to identify opportunities to address the social and civic challenges facing the region and develop a shared vision for the future in the context of rapid growth and demographic change.
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![CBI Helps West Virginia Schools Rebuild After Historic Flooding]()
CBI Helps West Virginia Schools Rebuild After Historic Flooding
November 11, 2018
It’s hard to find an arena closer to people’s hearts than their schools. In Nicholas County, West Virginia, despite shrinking enrollment and tight budgets, the rival high schools in Richwood and Summersville have served as the centers of civic community life. So it wasn’t surprising that a proposal to consolidate the schools erupted in controversy and intense conflict.
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Building a National Stakeholder Consensus on "Working Up"
November 11, 2018
Central to the American Dream is the belief that through education and hard work, each generation can raise its standard of living, and create greater opportunities for the next. But over the past forty years, incomes for lower-wage workers have stagnated, and economic inequality has increased. Education and hard work are no longer a guarantee of upward mobility for lower-wage workers.
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