Archive for 'Training' Category
CONCUR Training “Negotiating Effective Environmental Agreements” Scheduled for May 19-20, 2010
CONCUR’s annual public 2-day training course “Negotiating Effective Environmental Agreements” has been scheduled for 2010. This course will meet Wednesday-Thursday, May 19-20, 2010 in downtown Oakland’s historic Preservation Park.
Negotiation is increasingly a required part the day-to-day work of many professionals active in the environment, energy, natural resource management, and land use planning fields. While you [...]
Course 2: “Facilitating and Mediating Effective Environmental Agreements” scheduled for December 1-3, 2009
CONCUR’s annual advanced training course, “Facilitating and Mediating Effective Environmental Agreements“, has been scheduled to meet Tuesday-Thursday, December 1-3, 2009 at downtown Oakland’s historic Preservation Park conference center. The course is intended for professionals working across the full range of environmental and natural resource issues in planning, policy development, or implementing site-specific projects.
This is [...]
Lecture at New York University (January 2009)
Senior Associate Bennett Brooks served as a guest lecturer at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service in January 2009. Bennett spoke on consensus building techniques and challenges in the graduate-level course, “Designing a Conflict Management Program for a Public Dispute: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Multi-Party Negotiations and Consensus Building, Policy Dialogues“.
Customized Training for the State Water Resources Control Board Water Leadership Institute (2003-2007)
CONCUR worked with counterparts from UC Davis and the State Water Resources Control Board to design and present a new Water Leadership curriculum. CONCUR instructors developed and taught a curriculum of four pilot courses in 2003-2005, which were repeated through 2006-2007. They are “Designing Effective Stakeholder Collaborative Processes“, “Effective Use of Scientific Information“, “Negotiation and [...]
‘Collaboration Network’ Online Discussion Forum Pilot Phase Completed (2004)
CONCUR worked with the California State Water Resources Control Board’s Office of Statewide Initiatives and UC Davis to develop and facilitate a private online discussion forum for Water Board staff called the Collaboration Network, or CollabNet. CollabNet was designed to complement the Water Board Training Academy’s four existing courses on collaboration, promote intra-agency discussion and [...]
Training and Coaching for Philippines-Based NGOs
CONCUR provided training and coaching for two separate teams of Philippines-based NGOs, one from Co-Train and one from the other from Tanggol Kalikasan/Haribon Foundation. The sessions focused on the potential use and application of ADR techniques to environmental disputes in the Philippines. Both workshops took place at CONCUR’s Berkeley offices, and emphasized the integration of [...]
International Association for Environmental Impact Assessment, Australia (1988)
Drs. Gamman and McCreary lead three training courses on effective environmental negotiation in both Brisbane and Canberra in Australia. The first, convened in conjunction with the International Association for Environmental Impact Assessment, an international association of planners, architects, and scientists active in all facets of environmental planning, was primarily targeted at governmental officials, NGO leaders, [...]
Environmental Negotiation Training in Bulgaria/Hungary
In close collaboration with Partners for Democratic Change, CONCUR designed and a series of training courses on environmental negotiation in Nosvaj, Hungary, Bourgas, Bulgaria and Haskovo, Bulgaria. The courses were designed to introduce senior government officials and NGO leaders in these newly democratic countries to alternative styles of mediation, to demonstrate how to create credible [...]
Caribbean Institute for Resource Management (1987)
In addition to his work in St. Kitts-Nevis, Dr. Gamman was also hired by the Caribbean Institute for Resource Management, U.S. Virgin Islands, to provide support for university faculty members throughout the Caribbean region, to show them how to incorporate negotiation and environmental dispute resolution cases into existing curricula for natural resource management courses. This [...]
Center for Environmental Leadership (1988)
Dr. Gamman consulted with the Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership in Cambridge, MA to develop and present a comprehensive workshop curriculum. This workshop integrated environmental management and dispute resolution for officials from developing countries. Participants included senior government officials from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.