Have you just completed or currently doing deliberative engagement to inform your strategic plans? What approach did you take? What went well and what challenges did you have?

Come along to this informative and interactive session to share your experiences, learn from others and hear from experts.

As a sector we will be exploring how to get the most out of this mandatory process and how we can work together to improve our deliberative engagement into the future.

Why attend?

Most Victorian Councils have now completed a deliberative engagement process to inform their new strategic plans. This process was undertaken in a range of ways, with different methods and approaches and with different levels of success and challenges.

This session provides an opportunity for Councils to come together and debrief their deliberative engagement processes – the good, the bad and the ugly!

Imagine how much we can learn from each other!

Come along on the day to also:

· Hear from a panel of deliberative engagement experts

· Learn new ways and methods to do deliberative engagement

· Discover ideas and tools to improve your deliberative engagement processes for 2028

Who should attend

Victorian Local Government professionals at all levels including Executives and Senior Managers and staff in Community Engagement, Community Development, Corporate Planning, Communications and Governance.

Debrief outline

Morning – Knowledge sharing and learning

Includes presentations, information, data, case studies and interactive workshop activities to get everyone sharing and talking.

Afternoon – Advice, ideas and future planning

Includes presentations and Q&A with an expert panel including: MosaicLab, Municipal Association of Victoria, the Engagement Institute (formerly IAP2) and the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. We will finish off with a range of collaborative workshop activities to develop some key takeaways from the day.