Informing community members about activities on their lands, or policies and plans that could affect them is vital to informed and supported decision-making by an organization. Effective and productive communication is inclusive of all voices and perspectives, participatory in identifying themes or issues and forming objectives, goals, and recommendations.
Facilitating community-based meetings on issues affecting traditional territories, cultural values and practices;
Enabling productive discussion, issue identification and feedback through various methods such as, grounded theory research method, and various media elicitation tools;
Liaising with social development and cultural advisors on community protocols, youth/adult/elder, gender and socio-economic representation, and social dynamics;
Focus Group; Breakout Groups; workshop setting;
Elder/Community member Advisory Committees
Verification of information, validation of findings;
Finding capacity building opportunities for training and skills development, including Aboriginal community researchers and organization staff
Examples of Woven Paths Projects
Consulting Contract, Aboriginal Engagement for the TK Working Group, Aboriginal Advisory Committee, Community Researcher Liaison Team, Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA).
Client Study Committee & Land User Participant Meetings on Industry proposed and operating projects, and Traditional Land Use & Knowledge Studies (ie Teck Resources Frontier Mine Project; Imperial Oil Ltd. Aspen Project; Suncor Base Mine Ext & Lewis Projects);
Client Land User/Advisory Committee for Teck Resources Ltd. Mitigation Pre-Workshop Community Engagement Series;
Client Land User Meeting on UN World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring Mission to Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site;
Client Land User/Advisory Committee Meeting on proposed Imperial Aspen SAGD;
Community meeting facilitation support for external consultants, researchers