Consensus Building Institute

Starting in spring of 2023, CBI facilitated the strategic planning process for the Pacific Institute, which addresses global water challenges. Now the institute is releasing the result: a strategic plan through 2026, focusing on water resilience. Find the strategic plan here: https://lnkd.in/gWXYnHXV

The Mystic River watershed connects 21 cities and towns in the Greater Boston area. The Resilient Mystic Collaborative is a voluntary organization that unites municipalities, agencies, businesses, and community-based organizations in developing and implementing projects that make people and places in the watershed more resilient to climate change. To that end, the collaborative has been working on a vision for the lower Mystic River waterfront, and CBI is proud to support the effort. This weekend we took a boat tour of the lower Mystic’s working waterfront, joined by representatives from waterfront industry, local communities, non-profit watershed and engagement groups, and the cities of Chelsea, Boston, and Everett. Learn about the Resilient Mystic Collaborative here: https://lnkd.in/gJrUbWyu

CBI is proud to be partnering with WRT on community outreach and engagement for the City of Palo Alto’s Downtown Housing Plan, designed to address the lack of mixed-income housing in the city. The project launched this summer with a stakeholder assessment, and on October 10th, there was a community open house. This fall, CBI is helping to organize a Community Advisory Group that will bring together residents, property owners, business owners, and developers. Read more about this project here: https://lnkd.in/gWBMMadr

Liderar la transformación energética del país requiere fortalecer la relación en los territorios donde desarrollamos proyectos. Con esta convicción, junto a nuestras empresas socias, realizamos el último taller 2024, en el marco de nuestro esfuerzo para mejorar la gestión conjunta con contratistas y proveedores. Este trabajo, desarrollado desde 2022 por Generadoras de Chile fue liderado por nuestra gerente de sustentabilidad, Macarena Álvarez, y la consultora senior de Consensus Building Institute (CBI), Paola Berdichevsky, quienes guiaron el proceso participativo para establecer los lineamientos 2025 en concordancia con los “Principios orientadores: contratistas y proveedores de empresas generadoras”. 🙌 ¡Muchas gracias a todos y todas por su participación! #ElFuturodeChileesRenovable #LiderandoLaTransiciónEnergéticadeChile

Thanks so much to all the experts who participated in our Living Shorelines Workshop hosted by the Northeast Regional Ocean Council, The Nature Conservancy, and the Consensus Building Institute in Portsmouth, NH yesterday. Together with experts from state, local, and federal government agencies, environmental consulting firms, academia, and non-government organizations, we shared valuable lessons learned about the design, construction, and monitoring of living shorelines projects in New England. The weather was no match for Tom Ballestero and his team from UNH who lead three separate tours of the Wagon Hill living shorelines project in Durham, NH. What a great success story - thank you for sharing! #livingshorelines #NortheastRegionalOceanCouncil #coastalresilience #WagonHill

From working with coastal communities to prepare for rising sea levels to supporting planning efforts in New England that resulted in the first ocean plan in the country, CBI has helped advance progress on challenging coastal and ocean issues. You can read more about this work at our site: https://lnkd.in/e3dwGWSj

The belief that access to water is a zero-sum game fuels intense disputes among those who have vested, and often divergent, interests in the management of this critical resource. CBI helps parties shift from zero-sum conflicts to mutually beneficial possibilities for conserving, using, and reusing water in ways that can meet the needs of many, and helps build the capacity of stakeholders to solve these problems together into the future. Read more at our site: https://lnkd.in/eZu2txDh

At CBI.org, you can find an archive of brief case studies about our work over the years—including this overview of work on questions and challenges associated with historic dune shacks on Cape Cod: https://lnkd.in/eGTjNzcC

CBI is proud of its work facilitating a workshop series—with the Marine Technology Society (MTS), the Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative for Offshore Wind (RWSC), and more—that considers technologies for monitoring whales during offshore wind construction. Find a report on these efforts here:

Based on hundreds of real-world cases and experimental findings, CBI's Mutual Gains Approach to negotiation (MGA) involves four steps for negotiating better outcomes while protecting relationships and reputation. The vast majority of negotiations, this model holds, involve parties with more than one concern and more than one issue that an agreement might address. It's not the same as “Win-Win." It does not focus on just being nice. Rather, the Mutual Gains Approach emphasizes careful analysis and good process management. Read about it at our site: https://lnkd.in/eTXecGrJ