Building Coalitions PART TWO

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Building CoalitionsPART TWO

• Linda Major
• Ian Newman
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Tom Workman
• University of Houston-Downtown

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Overview of Workshops

• Focus is on the PROCESS of working with diverse
  stakeholders across the community in order to
  create environmental change that reduces AODV
  problems.
• PART 1 will focus on the basic theories and tools
  to community organizing and stakeholder
  relationship development
• PART 2 will focus on organizing opportunities for
  stakeholder/community deliberation and
  decision-making

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Resources

• Deep Change Discovering the Leader Within,
  Robert E Quinn (1996)
• Building the Bridge As You Walk On It A Guide
  for Leading Change, Quinn (2004)
• Change the World How Ordinary People Can Achieve
  Extraordinary Results, Quinn (2000)
• The Speed of Trust, Stephen Covey (2007)
• The Art of Engagement Bridging the Gap Between
  People and Possibilities, Jim Haudan (2008)

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Robert Quinns Model of Four Change
Strategies (2000)
Level 4 The Transforming Strategy
Transcend self emphasis on emergent reality
Level 3 The Participating Strategy
Open dialogue emphasis on relationship
Level 2 The Forcing Strategy
Leveraging behavior emphasis on authority
Level 1 The Telling Strategy
Rational persuasion emphasis on facts
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Employing Quinns Perspectives to Create A Model
of Community Organizing for AODV Environmental
Change

The transcending frame enables coalition leaders
and members to think broadly about collaborating
between interests, recognizing the needs and
concerns of others, and operating from a vision
of abundant opportunity
The Participating Strategy
All three Strategy choices are viable when
appropriate to the situation and objective
The Forcing Strategy
The Telling Strategy
TRANSCENDING FRAME
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Informed Deliberation

• A process where stakeholders are educated around
  a set of data and perspectives about a problem
• Perspective sharing broadens understanding for
  all stakeholders
• All stakeholders participate in collaborative
  problem-solving with new understanding of the
  issues

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Whats A Community Forum?

• Involves an open group of stakeholders from
  specific arena or a smaller group of stakeholders
  coming together around a specific issue
• Creates an informed discussion around specific
  set of issues or needs
• Enables multiple perspectives to be shared in a
  single setting
• Provides community-wide knowledge of issues,
  tensions, trade-offs, and next steps.

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Common Elements

• Presentation of Relevant Data
• Presentation of Perspectives or Experiences
• Opportunity to Experience Issue Directly
• Open, Recorded Discussion
• Formal Reporting and Next Steps

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Examples from the Field

• The Resident Roundtable Project
• The Bar Walk
• Neighborhoods
• Tailgates
• Hospitality Community Forums
• False Identification
• Birthday Bar Crawls
• Over-Service

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Preparing Forums Lessons Learned

• Establish a core planning team
• Individuals representing key stakeholders
• Team establishes goals for the forum and the
  process that supports these goals
• Team helps frame the discussion so that it is
  broad and inclusive of all aspects of the issue
• Team members solicit stakeholders from multiple
  perspectives to participate
• Team processes the forum, communicates the
  outcomes, and helps enact next steps for progress

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Preparing Forums Lessons Learned

• Outcomes cant be dictated by an agenda the goal
  is NOT convincing the community to go along with
  your plan
• Effective outcomes of a community forum are
  expanded awareness of the tensions, trade-offs,
  and perspectives that must be considered in order
  to find a lasting solution to the problem. The
  outcome is collective insight.

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Preparing Forums Lessons Learned

• Framing is critical
• Issues, experiences and deliberations need
  careful and thoughtful framing
• Frame needs to be communicated from invitation
  through introductions and discussion
• DATA What do we KNOW
• Perspectives What does it FEEL like living in
  this reality?
• Purpose Why are we here and what can we gain
  from this experience?

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Preparing Forums Lessons Learned

• Post-forum follow-up should build a public record
  of progress
• Report back the discussion and the input to those
  present and those they represent
• Careful editing Let people hear their voice in
  reports
• Identify tensions and trade offs for various
  stakeholders
• Identify established common ground
• Capture the energy toward creating viable
  solutions
• Articulate next steps as public record

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Preparing Forums Lessons Learned

• Most forums may NOT be the best choice for media
  inclusion
• People need safe place to voice dissent and
  tensions without dissent becoming the headline
• Forums are exploration opportunities and not
  places where clear community statements can be
  made.
• Post-forum reports or implementation activities
  are better for media,

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Small Group Exercise

• Lets Create a Forum
• Choose the issue to serve as forum topic
• Determine key stakeholders who have a vested
  interest in the issue
• Core Team?
• Voices at the forum?
• Identify data that might help inform the
  discussion
• Determine the frame for the discussion
• Determine potential forum outcomes
• Create an agenda supporting the intended outcomes

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Results

• Enactment of new policies
• Digital Drivers License
• Increased penalties for disorderly house
  citations
• Increase in support across community
• Birthday Bar Crawl Voluntary Agreement
• Reduction in binge drinking rates and related
  problems
• Clarity in media coverage and public discussion

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For more information

• Tom WorkmanUniversity of Houston-DowntownWorkman
  T_at_uhd.edu713/221-8952
• Linda MajorUniversity of Nebraskalmajor1_at_unl.edu
  402/472-2454www.nudirections.org
• Ian NewmanUniversity of Nebraskainewman1_at_unl.edu
  402/472-3844