Convene

Convene: Build Collaboration Skills, Tools & Capacity

Collaborating Conversations

Peer to Peer Exchange for Conservation Practitioners: Tips, Tools and Techniques

Hosted by Center for Collaborative Conservation & WCCN.

Opportunity for conservation practitioners to: build social and professional connections, sharpen collaboration skills, and co-learn and problem solve with peers

Upcoming sessions:

June 3rd, 4pm-5pm MDT: Connecting Collaboration, Well being & Social Science, Emily Jane Davis, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Forestry and Natural Resources Extension. Register for free: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvceGgpj8vHt2lbPcnBd68ZXvRhObVb_Mj

 

Past Sessions: 

Emerging Leaders: Identifying Goals, Needs and Opportunities for the Next Generation of Conservationists (4pm-5pm MST): Session #1: Needs and Opportunities: Nov 19th, 2020, Session #2:  Career Paths: Dec 17th, 2020, Session 3#: Barriers Emerging Leaders Face: Jan 21st, 2021, Session #4: Identifying Opportunities For Moving Froward; Feb 18th, 2021

Want to propose a topic, question, or theme? Contact Heather Knight heather.knight@colostate.edu 

WCCN Virtual Trainings

Past Trainings:

Creating Videos to Tell Your Story
Two virtual training sessions by Jesse Grace from CSU providing an introduction to shooting video and editing and video production.

Video recording of Session 1
Slideshow of Session 1
Video recording of Session 2
Slideshow of Session 2

Facilitating Collaborative Groups-Successes & Challenges, Laura Calandrella, author of “Our Next Evolution: Transforming Collaborative Leadership To Shape Our Planet’s Future”

Facilitation Training on Group Power Dynamics
View the CCC’s two-hour facilitation training that focused on group power dynamics. This training included practice scenarios with trained facilitators from the Center for Public Deliberation at CSU.

Crafting Your Story

How to Build a Story Map – Mapping for Collaboration Webinar Series

Note for March Sessions: A User, Publisher, or Administrator role in an ArcGIS organization is required. Get a free trial at https://learn.arcgis.com/en/become-a-member/.

Collaboration Training and Resources

Collaboration Resource Finder Tool (CRaFT)

CRaFT is a growing database of learning opportunities and resources to build collaborative capacity of community members working together to conserve their well-being and natural resources.

This tool allows you to search our database, find trainings and resources, update records, add new activities, and rate the quality of each.

CRAFT: Find a collaboration learning opportunity or resource
Internship & Mentoring Programs

Review the Findings

Search the Directory

Read the Report

US Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre - Collaboration Resources
Organizational Capacity Building Programs

Review the Findings

Search the Directory

Read the Report

Confluence

WCCN was launched during an inaugural Confluence 2020 event held at Colorado State University, March 10th – 12th, 2020. Members of collaborative conservation groups and their support organizations gathered from across the West to CONNECT to peers, CONVENE to learn new collaboration skills and practice new tools, and CATALYZE action on issues that limit conservation success.

Find more information on Confluence 2020 HERE.

SAVE THE DATE!
Next Confluence coming September 19-21, 2022, Paradise Valley, Montana!
Support the WCCN

We Believe
The Western Collaborative Conservation Network believes  that increased collaboration builds stronger communities and creates enduring conservation actions.

Contact: Heather Knight, Associate Director of Practice, Center for Collaborative Conservation,
heather.knight@colostate.edu  www.collaborativeconservation.org/program/practice/

Stay Tuned! New and improved WCCN website coming soon.