Training: Tools for Collaborative Governance – What can Finland learn from Oregon? 21.8.2024
Time: Wednesday 21.8.2024 at 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Place: Tieteen ja toivon talo, Puistokatu 4 (2. kerros), 00140 Helsinki
The training is fully booked. Please contact irina@akordi.fi for a place on the waiting list.
What is Collaborative Governance and why do we need it?
- Defining Collaborative Governance and its Unique Dynamics in Public Problem Solving
- Introduction to the Spectrum of Decision Making: Characteristics of Effective Collaborative Process and Application to Collaborative Governance
- Frameworks for Collaborative Governance: Agreement Seeking, Implementation and Public Engagement
Getting the Most out of Collaborative Governance
- Assessing a Situation & Framing the Issues
- Steps for Consensus Based Decision Making
- Forging Multi-Party Agreements in a Political Environment
- Case Studies and Discussion
The training is part of Akordi’s project about anticipating and resolving conflicts in the Green Transition and is free of charge for participants.
The training is in English.
Trainers
Kristen Wright
Kristen is the Interim Director of Training and Academic Services and also serves as a project manager in the Oregon Solutions program. She has been with the Center since 2015 and has enjoyed having the opportunity to blend practice and education in her work.
Kristen shares, “I am drawn to the work of collaborative governance because I see its potential to bring our collective best thinking and contributions to the issues we are facing. I am also drawn to it with a hopefulness that it could also be a place to develop and sustain mutual and healthy relationships. Our lives are so interconnected, but the social systems that shape our lives have isolated and harmed us and our ability to sustain mutual, healthy relationships. For me, collaborative governance is a humbling and alive place.”
Steve Greenwood
Steve has over 30 years of public service experience at the federal, state, and local level, most recently as Regional Administrator for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Steve has led collaborative processes on Oregon’s urban-rural divide, water conflicts in Oregon, Columbia River sediment management, and much more.
He teaches collaborative governance seminars internationally and co-founded and teaches a graduate certificate in collaborative governance. Steve received an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Oregon. He has a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University. Steve is co-author of Collaborative Governance: Principles, Process and Practical Tools (2021, Taylor & Francis).
