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Citizens at the Centre: Tamarack is excited to present a special one-day workshop with Max Hardy, a leading Australian Community Engagement consultant, along with Liz Weaver and Sylvia Cheuy of the Tamarack Institute to learn core principles and innovative practices to better engage your community.
If you are seeking new, high-impact ways for organizations and communities to work together to create social change, this is a learning opportunity you won’t want to miss. Drawing on case studies from Australia and Canada, as well as techniques and activities that demonstrate alternative ways to meaningfully engage communities/citizens throughout the lifespan of your project, workshop participants will leave with the confidence to design and lead efforts to generate effective solutions to address our most challenging community issues.
Community Engagement is a foundational practice of community change. The knowledge, passion and capabilities of ordinary people are a rich, often untapped, source of innovation and a much-needed resource to implement promising solutions to our toughest community issues.
Register now for this one-day workshop with Max Hardy, along with Liz Weaver and Sylvia Cheuy of the Tamarack Institute, so that you can design and lead efforts to rejuvenate civic participation and leadership to translate promising local ideas into reality.
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Max Hardy brings more than 20 years of experience facilitating collaborative processes in Australia that have engaged advocates and adversaries; citizens and corporations; champions and the disengaged. His work focuses on the toughest and most complex projects and he is committed not only to achieving results through collaboration but also to building participants’ ongoing capacity to collaborate. Since 1999 Max has been designing and facilitating deliberative processes such as citizens’ juries focused on an array of topics including: local government social plans; masterplans for airports; contentious land use plans; and complex health policy issues. 
Watch Max's TEDx Talk on how questions can change everything in Community Engagement, and on the value of a community's experience and knowledge
Read The Power of Co, co-authored by Max Hardy, on the power of collaboration to find effective solutions to complex issues
Sylvia Cheuy Halifax, Ottawa, and Toronto workshops
For more than 20 years Sylvia Cheuy has designed, facilitated and championed initiatives that place the power and wisdom of citizens at the centre of positive change. She is passionate about community engagement and witnessed first-hand what becomes possible when residents and various sector leaders work collaboratively to realize an aspirational community vision. Sylvia believes that when the assets of residents and community are recognized and connected they become powerful drivers of community change.
Liz WeaverCalgary and Vancouver workshops
Liz is passionate about the power and potential of communities getting to impact on complex issues. Liz is Tamarack’s Co-CEO and Strategic Lead. In this role she provides strategic direction to the organization and leads many of its key learning activities including Collective Impact capacity building services for the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Liz is one of Tamarack's highly regarded trainers and has developed and delivered curriculum on a variety of workshop topics including collaborative governance, leadership, Collective Impact, Community Innovation, influencing policy change and social media for impact and engagement.
Prior to this role, Liz led the Vibrant Communities Canada team and assisted place-based collaborative tables to develop their frameworks of change, supported and guided their projects and helped connect them to Vibrant Communities and other comprehensive community collaborations.
