DESIGNING OR FACILITATING MEETINGS OR WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, OR MULTI-PARTY PROBLEM-SOLVING SESSIONS
Creighton designs and facilitate meetings, workshops and conferences tailored to the client's specific task, the size of the audience, and the level of interaction desired.
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Creighton has designed and facilitated literally hundreds of meetings, work groups, and conferences for more than thirty years. This includes a wide variety of meetings, including: town meetings with several thousand participants; public hearings on controversial issues; strategic planning meetings with small senior management teams; workshops in which several hundred participants worked together to create proposals or research plans; drop-in open houses; and participatory events where people interact with a study area.
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Recent examples include:
- Facilitating a series of national listening sessions on water issues for the Corps of Engineers
- Facilitating symposia and workshops regarding possible use of prescribed burns
- Conducting monthly community meetings regarding clean-up of ordnance and explosives at a former Army base
- Conducting public meetings on alternative sites for low-income housing
- Designing and facilitating workshops regarding siting of new electric transmission lines
- Conducting scooping meetings regarding national wetlands permits
Creighton has designed and facilitated a number of workshops with scientific and technical experts designed to get a consensus on research priorities, technical methodologies, or policies. Examples of topics addressed in these workshops include:
- Research priorities concerning storage of nuclear waste in crystalline rock
- Long-range water development policy
- Methodologies for assessing the social impacts of coal development
- Research protocols for establishing standards for discharge of toxic wastes
- Research priorities regarding fisheries on major river systems
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