Facilitation & engagement

Whether as standalone exercises or as integrated parts of other assignments, our facilitation and engagement capability is an important part of our work.

Long-term, strategic engagement
We plan, organise and deliver multi-episode engagement exercises - integrated processes involving workshops, presentations, innovative events and web-based techniques, with stakeholders ranging from residents and community groups to blue-chip businesses and senior politicians.

Targeted intervention
We plan, organise and deliver one-off events, ranging from board-level capacity-building facilitation to day-long conferences and seminars, often on difficult or contentious issues.

Analysis and follow-up
We capture and analyse the results from engagement and facilitation exercises, feeding back to clients on a confidential basis and reporting to inform strategy, policy development and monitoring and evaluation.

 

Example: Future waste scenarios
Watering - istockphoto

Brook Lyndhurst Blog

  • Brook Lyndhurst in action: Coppicing for London Wetland Centre

    The main activity for this year’s corporate volunteer day was coppicing. For those who don’t know – which at the time included a couple of us, who met the news of our activity with blank faces - coppicing is to “cut back (a tree or shrub) to ground level periodically to stimulate growth.” On the morning of [...] 

  • How to get ‘generation snooze’ to use fewer resources

    This was originally a guest post from Brook Lyndhurst on the Green Alliance’s Green Living Blog: http://greenlivingblog.org.uk/  To use our resources more sustainably, do we ‘just need to wake up’? This is the suggestion from Generation Awake, an EU campaign fronted by three singing shopping bags, which was launched last month with the aim of making [...] 

  • Brook Lyndhurst success at CIWM awards

    It is not often that we at Brook Lyndhurst leave our spreadsheets behind and dress up for an awards ceremony, but we were proud and honoured to be informed that our Household Waste Prevention – A Review Of Evidence paper was to be awarded the James Jackson medal at the CIWM Professional Awards 2011. The [...]