Community Culture and the Environment Workshop

Jan 5th, 2005

Below is a .pdf file that describes an upcoming workshop, Community
Culture & the Environment: Understanding a sense of place.  The two-day
workshop is partnered by the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, the
Weeks Bay Reserve, and Alabama Department of Conservation & Natural
Resources – State Lands Division - Coastal Section.  The facilitator,
Theresa Trainor, will introduce tools to help to identify community
perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs about the work you do, and to help
you develop participatory approaches to addressing the environmental
issues facing the Gulf Coast.
 
The coastal perceptions workshop focuses on an approach and methods for
understanding how to build partnerships based on a "sense of community,"
 
culture and environmental values.  You will learn how to use different
tools and techniques for understanding the same, including: social
mapping, visual methods, cross-cultural communication, interviewing,
surveys, and focus groups. The training format is highly participatory.
 
It will combine short presentations with interactive small group
collaboration and one-on-one interaction.  The facilitator is Theresa
Trainor, an applied anthropologist with the U.S. EPA Office of Water.
She is co-author of Community Culture and the Environment, the guide
that is the basis for this training.
 
Course Goal  to provide the necessary tools for building partnerships
around environmental issues.  Specifically, the tools will address
communication, learning about community perceptions and attitudes about
environmental issues, consensus-building and strategic partnership
analysis that effect change toward positive actions and results.
 
Please pass this e-file along to anyone you believe would be interested
or benefit from participating in this workshop.  More details about the
workshop and how to register are included in the brochure, and on the
Mobile Bay NEP website:  www.mobilebaynep.com.

Click here for PDF file.