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News
▶ Dovetail adds a new Associate to the team!
▶ Facilitation
& Conflict Resolution Training at Hollyhock, Spring 2010
▶ Community leaders forge ahead on
the Coquitlam River Watershed Strategy
▶ Ongoing contributions to wild salmon conservation
▶
Julian Griggs Secures IAF Certification
▶ Research
on Collaborative Management Arrangement Completed
for the Mukswa-Kechika Management Area
▶ Presentation at
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Nov 2009
Dovetail adds a new Associate to the team!
We are pleased to announce that Dovetail has added a new Associate, Ethan Askey, to our consulting team.
Ethan Askey, MRM P.Ag., based in Whistler, BC, has more than 15 years
of consulting experience with First Nations, provincial and federal
agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations and private
sector clients. In addition to his facilitation and project management
experience, he contributes specialized knowledge in the areas of land
and environmental planning, aquatic and riparian habitat protection,
soil erosion and sediment control, environmental baseline and trends
assessment, impact mitigation, regulatory permitting and compliance,
and other aspects of environmental management.
We are thrilled to welcome Ethan to the Dovetail family!
Facilitation and Conflict
Resolution Training at
Hollyhock, Spring 2010
Julian
Griggs will be delivering a 5-day
facilitation training course entitled The Art and Craft of Effective
Group
Facilitation from May 10-14, 2010 at the Hollyhock retreat centre on
Cortes Island, BC.
In cooperation with Michelle LeBaron from UBC's
dispute resolution program, Julian will also be delivering a 5-day
course entitled Conflict Resolution: Practical Strategies for
Tranformation and Relationship Building at Hollyhock from June 9-13,
2010. See Training for more
details.
Community leaders forge ahead on the Coquitlam River Watershed
Strategy
Project leaders from the City of Coquitlam and Kwikwetlem First
Nation are being assisted by Julie Gardner in a governance strategy
for the
Coquitlam River Watershed. This is phase III in an ambitious,
community-based project to improve collaboration in watershed
management.
Ongoing contributions to wild salmon conservation
A report released in 2009, co-edited by Dovetail Principal Julie
Gardner (with Scott Hinch), helps to explain the mystery of Fraser
River Sockeye declines. This is the
proceedings
of a Conference on Early Migration and Premature Mortality in Fraser
River Late-Run Sockeye Salmon. Julie Gardner
facilitated the conference.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is due to
review its Wild Salmon Policy in 2010. On behalf of DFO, the Pacific
Fisheries Resource Conservation Council contracted Julie Gardner to
carry out interviews with key stakeholders and propose a framework
for the review. (See also Wild Salmon Conservation Research and
Planning under Projects.)Julian
Griggs Secures IAF
Certification
Julian Griggs recently completed the requirements to secure
accreditation from the International Association of Facilitators (IAF)
as a "Certified Professional Facilitator©." Julian
becomes one of only
a dozen or so professionals in BC with this level of professional
certification.
Research
on Collaborative
Management Arrangement Completed for the Mukswa-Kechika Management Area
Julian
Griggs and a colleague, David Luff, Inukshuk Consulting, recently
completed a detailed hindsight evaluation of Muskwa-Kechika Management
Area (1998-2008) as an example of a collaborative management
arrangement for the implementation of a land use agreement. The results
of this study were presented at the BC Protected
Areas Research Forum
in Prince George, BC in December 2008, and also to the Muskwa-Kechika
Advisory Board in Mackenzie in March 2009. Partial funding for this
research initiative was kindly provided by the Wilburforce Foundation
and the Brainerd Foundation.
Presentation
at
University
of Alaska Fairbanks, November 2009
Julian
Griggs was an invited presentor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks,
in November 2009, courtesy of the UAF Chancellor, the Northern
Leadership
Centre, and the Resilience and Adapatation Program. Julian's
presentation was entitled "An Insider's View of Collaboration: Lessons
from a Decade of Multi-stakeholder Conservation Planning in BC's
Muskwa-Kechika Management Area." Julian also delivered a 3-day training
program on group facilitation for UAF faculty and students.
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