301 - Facilitating High-Stakes Multi-Stakeholder Climate Conversations with Barbara Oliveira

workshops work · 2024-12-24

When an island is sinking, whose responsibility is it to save? What approach do we take, and who foots the bill?

Big, high-stakes climate conversations always share the same goal: to save the planet. But when a diverse group of stakeholders bring their own interests to the table, tensions naturally arise between the polarity of priorities - and that’s when things start to get a little complicated.

Thankfully, Barbara Oliveira is a master at helping everyone to win. As a lawyer in a past life, she now seeks solutions to Wicked Problems in the climate space, harmonising the rigidity of formal negotiations with the softness of human connection and open exchange.

A thoughtful and motivating conversation, with lots to double-click on, muse upon and learn from Barbara.

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Facilitation through the lens of high-stakes, multi-stakeholder climate conversationsPowerplay, policies and principles: how to navigate multilateral conversations and negotiations with careWhat lies between the space of Facilitation and Chairing in the climate spaceWhy building resilience can keep us present and help us to self-regulate

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