Community Engagement

This was a great lesson for me. I was Chair/Facilitator of the National Health and Safety Representatives Forum recently. This annual event brings together Health & Safety Reps (HSRs) from right across the Australian Oil and Gas industry. We had some great sessions with expert speakers from Australia and overseas. […]

I’m chairing and facilitating sessions at the National Health and Safety Representatives Forum (HSR) for the Oil and Gas Industry. I’ve just come back from a planning meeting which has got me excited! Now I’m sure you’ve been to conferences in big venues that become an endless grind of information […]

Hi folks I recently facilitated some local meetings with rural communities. A group of ‘activists’ came from outside of these communities. Their issues were often unrelated to the objectives of the meetings. They tended to dominate proceedings and locals were left frustrated about their involvement being compromised. So here’s what […]

There’s a whole host of tools, techniques and processes that we can utilise during community engagement processes. In a recent project it was my role to seek and understand the views of a diverse range of people. Farmers, environmentalists, miners, scientists, councillors and government employees. A bit of a cross-section […]