What lies beyond community consultation? Beyond co-design?

This online session will explain how professionals working in governments, agencies, charities, non-profits, consultancies, developers and businesses can go well beyond standard community consultation processes to better work with and enable action by local people and communities.

Community consultation and engagement are often talked about as though they are the same thing. They are actually very different, as this graphic below summarises.

Why you should attend this session:

Save time and reduce the risks by learning what to do and not do before you begin
Better understand the differences between community consultation, engagement and empowerment
Tips and examples of going well beyond community consultation
Discover 12 practical tactics you can use in working with and enabling action by local communities

What will it help you with:

Projects that involve or would benefit from involving the community
How to add value to a project by positively engaging with stakeholders and the community
Practical, real-world examples

When

Choose your preferred session -

Thursday 20 March 2025 or
Wednesday 26 March 2025

1pm AEST / 12pm Qld / 12.30pm SA/NT / 10am WA / 3pm NZ for 1.5 hours

Meet your trainer

Dean Cracknell is a Co-Founder of Town Team Movement and Creator of Placemaking.Education. He lives in Launceston, Tasmania, having moved from Perth, Western Australia, 5 years ago.

He worked in two local governments for 12 years in Western Australia, has worked with dozens of local governments around Australia and in many community settings. He authored the Beyond Community Consultation online course.

Prices

FREE for Western Australian local governments

Thanks to the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, whcih has engaged Town Team Movement to deliver free training for all WA local government staff and Elected Members.

A$110 (including GST) for everyone else

This includes 5 months access to the Beyond Community Consultation online course plus this online training session.

If you would prefer to purchase access for multiple students in one transaction and/or pay via tax invoice, please email your request to hello@placemaking.education and we can arrange it for you.

Questions

Please email hello@placemaking.education if you have any questions.