The First Annual Efroymson Coaches Network Rally was held May 3-5, 2005, at the Tanque Verde Ranch, at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains east of Tucson, Arizona, USA. The 73 participants from 4 continents and the Pacific Islands were virtually all from The Nature Conservancy, and focused on the application of Conservation Action Planning, or CAP.
The agenda contained 12 Clinics and 7 Work Sessions, organized into three themes:
- Building the Basic Skills – the Nuts and Bolts of Facilitating CAP
- Working with Multiple Teams and Partners
- Shaping the Future Practice.
The list of sessions follows:
Building the Basic Skills – the Nuts and Bolts of Facilitating CAP
- Key Ecological Attributes – Demystifying and Making This Step Useful for our Teams (Clinic)
- Facilitating the Developing Strategies Step of CAP (Clinic)
- Situation Analysis – Helping Teams Through the Maze from Threats to Strategies (Clinic)
- Helping Teams Develop Meaningful and Affordable Measures (Clinic)
- Workbook Driving – How Can the Workbook Work for You, Not Against You? (Clinic)
Working with Multiple Teams and Partners
- Getting to Scale – Preparing to Meet the Growing Global Need for Protected Area Management Planning (Clinic)
- Adapting CAP in Agency Partner Planning Processes (Clinic)
- Planning With Diverse Stakeholders: Integrating Cultural Targets and Community Interests (Clinic)
- Efroymson Workshops Grouped by Themes: Learning From Great Examples (Clinic)
- Building a Shared Database for KEAs (Work Session)
- COP-7 Programme of Work on Protected Areas – A Global Biodiversity Agreement (Clinic)
- Can We Use CAP to Discover Meaningful Strategies That Will Work Across Multiple Sites, Countries, Continents, Universes? (Work Session)
- Tips on Facilitating Multiple Projects in the Efroymson Workshop Style (Clinic)
Shaping the Future Practice
- Workbook “Tough Love” – What do You Want the Workbook to do in the Future? (Work Session)
- Spectacular Strategies and Promising Failures (Clinic)
- Responding to the Volume – Using the Efroymson Approach in a Rapid CAP (Work Session)
- Conservation Audits as a Tool for Learning and Supporting the Adoption of CAP Standards Across the Conservancy (Work Session)
- CAP Basic Practice – What is This Thing Called CAP? (Work Session)
- Supporting CAP – Materials and Training Needs (Work Session)
To see an overview of the Rally program click here.
