Module 1: Strategic Dialogue and Engagement for Climate Adaptation
Learning Objectives
The learning objectives for this module are:
- Recognize the role of strategic dialogue in adaptation planning and engagement processes;
- Identify personal goals for leadership development and skills building;
- Build familiarity with core concepts and identify their relevance to course objectives and application in the field; and
- Build self-reflective capacity around questions of power, privilege and worldview, as they relate to dialogue and engagement.
Readings & Resources
Required
The Dawn of System Leadership
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_dawn_of_system_leadership
The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe, Planning Theory & Practice, Leonie Sandercock (2020)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2020.1769915?scroll=top&needAccess=true
“Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis”
https://inhabitingtheanthropocene.com/2015/03/02/principles-of-tsawalk-an-indigenous-approach-to-global-crisis/
Changing Climate, Changing Communities: Guide and Workbook for Municipal Climate Adaptation
https://icleicanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Guide.pdf (p. 8)
OR
Talking it through: Guide for local government staff on climate adaptation (pp. 13 -19)
https://data.fcm.ca/documents/resources/MCIP/talking-it-through-discussion-guide.pdf
Personal Privilege Profile — Interaction Institute for Social Change
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xwIBqpCT4SEgEMJtYRDEuwmrdTWaSGhX/view
“Letting go of hierarchy” and Intersectional Analysis and “Seeing ourselves whole” – Adrienne Maree Brown (31:05 – 33:25)
Low Carbon Resilience: Best Practices for Professionals (pp. 1-10)
https://act-adapt.org/lcr-professionals-final/
Optional
Equity and Empowerment Lens Logic Model
https://multco.us/file/31825/download and https://multco.us/diversity-equity/equity-and-empowerment-lens
States of Change Competency Framework
https://states-of-change.org/assets/downloads/05.2018-Competency-Framework-1.pdf
Talking it Through Webinar
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ohnFppvGM-JlAT0v-GL7rz-IcV7_dQuJ
A Framework for Urban Climate Resilience
https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2012.745389
Joint Statement from Canada’s National Professional Associations: Advancing Integrated Climate Action
https://act-adapt.org/national-professional-associations-support-integrated-climate-action/
How Indigenous Knowledge Could Help Fight Climate Change
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1762656323783
