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![CBI-Facilitated Initiative Releases a Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy]()
CBI-Facilitated Initiative Releases a Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy
March 5, 2021
CBI Managing Director Stacie Smith worked closely with the Executive Committee to design and facilitate the deliberations of a diverse and cross-ideological 32-person Steering Committee and helped guide engagement of a national network of more than 300 scholars, educators, practitioners, and students from a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences to develop the Roadmap.
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CBI-Facilitated Landlord-Tenant Dialogue in New York City Leads to New Alliance to Prevent COVID-Driven Evictions
February 11, 2021
From June through September 2020, CBI facilitated a groundbreaking effort to build agreement among New York City landlord and tenant groups on ways to prevent the COVID economic crisis from leading to a wave of evictions across the city.
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![Breakthrough Collaboration: Sustainable Groundwater Management in Salinas Valley]()
Breakthrough Collaboration: Sustainable Groundwater Management in Salinas Valley
December 22, 2020
The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) helped create the Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency (SVBGSA), which brings together diverse stakeholders to achieve a legislative mandate.
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![Part One — Intersectionality and Facilitation]()
Part One — Intersectionality and Facilitation
Reflections on facilitator identity and the management of complex public disputes
October 27, 2020
This is part one of a four-part series of blog posts, related to a recent article in CBI Reports, in which we sought to address several difficult questions related to facilitator identity in complex public disputes. In this post, we address the importance of understanding and navigating identity through an intersectional lens (i.e. acknowledging how multiple identity characteristics “intersect” and create different lived experiences for both stakeholders and facilitators), and doing so with humility and integrity.
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![“Who are you and why do <i>you</i> get to run the meeting?” Reflections on Facilitator Identity and the Management of Complex Public Disputes]()
“Who are you and why do you get to run the meeting?” Reflections on Facilitator Identity and the Management of Complex Public Disputes
October 27, 2020
When Senior Associate Toby Berkman, as a white Jewish male, led a meeting of a Catholic congregation that had recently been informed by the Catholic Archdiocese that its church would be closing, he found himself pondering some challenging questions related to facilitator identity in complex public disputes. This situation and others led Toby and Danny Egol, former intern at CBI, to craft this article outlining their thoughts on how a facilitator’s many identities can complicate perceptions of facilitator authority, credibility, and neutrality, as well as some key questions related to identity that facilitators might explore in their work.
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Fall 2020: CBI in Action
October 27, 2020
A snapshot of ongoing and recent work.
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![American Friends Service Committee Crafts a Strategy to Champion Dignity for All]()
American Friends Service Committee Crafts a Strategy to Champion Dignity for All
October 27, 2020
For more than a century, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has taken a principled stand against oppression on a wide range of global issues. In 2018, the AFSC sought CBI’s support in determining how it could best contribute to a brighter future and in crafting a strategic plan for 2020-2030. In this article Senior Mediator Michele Ferenz talks about how the facilitation team helped the AFSC, an organization that subscribes to following the leadership of those most affected by exclusion and violence, set a compelling course for its own future.
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![Green v. Gray: Monitoring Different Shoreline Features Along New York’s Coasts]()
Green v. Gray: Monitoring Different Shoreline Features Along New York’s Coasts
October 27, 2020
In recent years, coastal communities across New York State have expressed an interest in moving away from sea walls and other hardened barriers toward more “green” infrastructure to help absorb storm surges and protect coastal communities from flood risk. CBI teamed with the Science and Resilience Institute of Jamaica Bay and a range of stakeholders in developing and piloting a draft statewide monitoring framework to assess the potential of nature-based features to help coastal communities in face of rising sea levels. Read Senior Mediator Bennett Brooks’ account of the project and lessons learned about structuring a successful process on such a technical issue.
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Fall 2020: Staff Updates
October 27, 2020
CBI is pleased to welcome Kristin Marcell as Director of the Climigration Network.
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![CBI Chile: Energía 2050 Project Video]()
CBI Chile: Energía 2050 Project Video
October 13, 2020
CBI helped formulate Energía 2050, a shared roadmap for a cleaner, cheaper, and more accessible energy future.
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![Running Public Meetings in the Time of COVID]()
Running Public Meetings in the Time of COVID
September 10, 2020
CBI West Director Gina Bartlett and CBI Senior Mediator Pat Field share some best practices and lessons learned from transitioning public meetings to virtual spaces.
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![A High-Wire Act: Mediating High Conflict Online]()
A High-Wire Act: Mediating High Conflict Online
September 10, 2020
CBI Senior Mediators Bennett Brooks and Pat Field explore how mediating high-conflict cases has changed, for better and for worse, in the new, all-virtual setting.
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