Core Training Topics

Conflict Management Collaborative Problem Solving
  • Interest-based negotiation (IBN)
  • Multi-party negotiation
  • Dynamics assessment of individuals and groups
  • Conflict prevention, management and resolution tools
  • Communication skills for negotiators
  • Strategic thinking & complex problem solving for negotiators
  • Managing public participation
  • Collaborative data gathering /analysis
  • Collaboration/relationship building
  • Collaboration in NEPA
  • Public policy & decision-making
Government-to-Government Relationship Building & Leadership
  • Consultation
  • Cultural awareness
  • Designing intercultural collaborative processes
  • Understanding tribal sovereignty
  • Interpersonal skill development
  • Group dynamics in environmental conflict
  • Team building & collaboration tools
  • Relationship building, networking & alliance building skills
  • Facilitation & facilitative leadership
  • Interagency/intragency cultures & institutional dynamics


Other courses currently being developed include:

CN 201: Collaboration in NEPA - 2.5 days
Learn how to integrate more effective collaboration in the environmental planning process under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), focusing on planning and design to extend guidance from the President’s Council on Environmental Quality’s Handbook on Collaboration and NEPA.
Collaborative Problem Solving of Environmental Conflicts - 1 day
Sharpen your negotiation mindset with strategic thinking and complex problem-solving skills; expand collaborative potential through relationship building; integrate data gathering to better manage public participation; identify opportunities to integrate collaboration into public processes, policy and decision-making.
FL 301: Facilitative Leadership in ECR - 2 days
Improve your ability to: analyze complex environmental problems; organize steps, people and information; read other people and appreciate their needs, opinions and agendas; speak and listen effectively, adapt your communication styles; invent solutions in real time; know when to intervene, transition to new issue, and when to bring closure.
Negotiating and Responding to Government-to-Government Challenges - 3 days
Deepen your cultural awareness, understanding of tribal sovereignty, and appreciation for long-term relationships with tribes in order to design effective, collaborative consultation.
Self-Managed Facilitation of Collaborative Work Groups working on Environmental Conflicts - 2 days
Expand capacity to: derive energy from diversity, optimize contributions of group members, establish ground rules and joint strategies to expedite routine decisions, convert conflict into creative opportunity, manage power-based conflicts, improve group decision-making, identify strategies for acquiring resources.


If you are interested in these courses or other customized offerings (based on the core training topics above) for your agency or work group, contact:

Diana Wilkinson
Training Coordinator
130 South Scott Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85701
520-901-8578
wilkinson@ecr.gov