The skills that the collaborative conservation field requires can offer us some amazing tools for centering well-being, including trust, relationship building, and thoughtful facilitation. What are your intentions for 2025? And how does your collaborative practice inform them?
Here’s to 2024! It’s been another wonderful year of collaboration at the WCCN. Learn what we’ve been up to, hear regional stories from across the West, and read a letter from our WCCN Director, Aireona, at the end of the newsletter!
It’s time for the quarterly round-up! See what your partners have been up to these past few months.
WCCN All-Partners Webinar: WCCN Emerging Leadership Initiative’s Toolkit – What We’ve Learned About Mentorship The Emerging Leaders Working Group decided to invest intentionally and significantly in 2024 to advance our goal of creating a mentorship toolkit for emerging leaders. We …
WCCN All-Partners Webinar: Upper Willamette Stewardship Network’s “A Collaborative Framework for Tribal Partnerships The Upper Willamette Stewardship Network has worked with local Native and Tribal partners to develop a framework for indigenous engagement and decolonization. This session will focus on …
The WCCN Quarterly Newsletter: “Collaborative Voices of Confluence” is OUT! Read all about it and look at pretty pictures from WCCN partners
A reflection by Nicole Reese This year, Confluence 2024 included a Mentorship Match, an opportunity for attendees to be paired for a mini-mentorship experience. Roughly 65 people participated in the Mentorship Match, and the result for many was a connection …
The session at Confluence reminded us that this work – engaging young people in conservation, cultivating their passion, and creating opportunities for growth – are the building blocks for a career of impact. They are also key components of mentorship, and feedback from this session will inform the creation of a mentorship toolkit, which will be available later this year.
We at the Western Collaborative Conservation Network (WCCN) and the Center for Collaborative Conservation (CCC) have put together a collaborative, live document: “Collaborative Conservation Tools and Resources”.
Lorraine Marquez Eiler, who is a Hia C-ed O’odham Elder, and the co-founder and board vice-president of the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA – https://www.isdanet.org/), was our keynote speaker for Confluence 2024. And I couldn’t have been more honored and excited when she accepted our invitation to come speak with the Confluence audience as our keynote. Lorraine is a collaborative visionary with decades of experience, not only working with partners from a variety of professional backgrounds, but among partners from three different nations – the Tohono O’odham Nation, Mexico, and the United States.