Slides to accompany a talk given on Community Engagement for the BC Treaty Commision conference in October 2008

1. Consultation is dead It's time for engagement that brings community back to life

2. The way to heal a living system is to connect it to more of itself – Humberto Maturana

3. Shapes of old style consultation

10. Shapes of engaged community

15. What is your current challenge in designing and implementing community engagement that contributes to healing in your community?

16. Principles of community

17. Hospitality

18. Working from powerful places

19. Connection

20. Why is it even important to live in community? What do we get from it? What can we learn about engagement from the way we do it in daily life?

21. Practices for engaging community

22. Balance work, relationships and co-learning

23. Put something powerful at the centre of the work

24. Quinault Nation Community Planning Use stories of community to make sense of work

25. Make meaning together

26. Let people organize their own thinking

27. Be a powerful inviter and remember that invitation is a process

28. Have a powerful question to which you don't know the answer

29. Use participatory processes to engage many voices

30. Let people measure their own work

31. Think of your best stories of community engagement What other practices can we add to this list?