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Building Coalitions
PART TWO
Linda Major
Ian Newman
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Tom Workman
University of Houston-Downtown
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
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)
Robert Quinn’s 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
Employing Quinn’s 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
The Forcing Strategy
The Telling Strategy
TRANSCENDING FRAME
All three
Strategy
choices
are viable
when
appropriate
to the
situation
and
objective
“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
What’s 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.
Common Elements
• Presentation of Relevant Data
• Presentation of Perspectives or
Experiences
• Opportunity to Experience Issue Directly
• Open, Recorded Discussion
• Formal Reporting and Next Steps
Examples from the Field
• The Resident Roundtable Project
• The “Bar Walk”
– Neighborhoods
– Tailgates
• Hospitality Community Forums
– False Identification
– Birthday Bar Crawls
– Over-Service
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
Preparing Forums: Lessons Learned
• Outcomes can’t 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.”
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?
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
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,
Small Group Exercise
Let’s 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?
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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
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
For more information
• Tom Workman
University of Houston-Downtown
[email protected]
713/221-8952
• Linda Major
University of Nebraska
[email protected]
402/472-2454
www.nudirections.org
• Ian Newman
University of Nebraska
[email protected]
402/472-3844