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

 

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