Dublin Mountains Partnership strategy meeting mountain leisure users and local residents/farmers/foresters etc together

Very interesting at the Dublin Mountains Pertnership meeting for 5 year strategy this Tuesday;

There were local people from Kilakee and farmers.

And there were Mountaineering Ireland members, Orienteering people, Mountain biking people, regular family people who go hiking etc, myself a bit of all those and a Scout.

And someone from Coilte, someone interested in heritage sites, . ..  and more.

And one cool part of the meeting was the amenities facilities leisure users and providers were talking with local farmers and residents and gained understanding of where each side were coming from.

I don't think that was intended overtly but it happened and was good.

https://www.dublinmountains.ie/news/latest_news

DMP Strategic Review Consultation Opportunity

Louise Browne Associates has been commissioned by the Dublin Mountains Partnership to review its strategy and develop a new strategic plan for the next five years. The Dublin Mountains Partnership, which was set up in 2008, comprises Coillte, Dublin City Council, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, South Dublin County Council, National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Dublin Mountains Initiative - an umbrella group representing the recreation users of the Dublin Mountains - and, more recently, Fáilte Ireland. The aim of the Partnership is to take an integrated and sustainable approach to improving the recreational experience of users of the Dublin Mountains whilst taking the needs of those who work and live in this area of significant scenic and high conservation value into account.

As Louise Browne Associates are very keen to get views on how the Dublin Mountains are used, enjoyed and managed, anyone with an interest in recreation in the Dublin Mountains is invited to attend a workshop which will be facilitated by Louise Browne. The workshop will take place at 7pm on Tuesday 8th January 2019 in the Larch Hill Scout Centre. The workshop has been arranged by Mountaineering Ireland and the Dublin Mountains Initiative.
If you'd like to be involved, please confirm your attendance to louise@louisebrowneassociates.com or call her on 0044 7411081000.

We look forward to seeing you there.
www.larchhill.org/…/new-larch-hill-house-and-confer…/

[posted on 04.01.19]

Relevant for conflict/resolving/working out differences . . .
Use in Scout Walking Debate or environmental/communication activity sometime . . .

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/15/to-take-on-climate-change-we-need-to-change-our-vocabulary
"To take on climate change, we need to change our vocabulary"
"When we talk about saving the planet, we employ the narrative of war."
- same with cars vs bikes . . .

also "In the search for an opponent, climate activists have landed on several suspects: climate deniers. Reluctant politicians. Capitalism. The blame points in every direction."oops. the enemy is . . everybody, everything we do.

"the key is not to avoid conflict, but to complicate it." - not complicate it, but actually remove the false simplifications and make the people face up to the issue that it is more complicated.

"Ripley pointed to a study hatched at the Difficult Conversations Laboratory at Columbia University, where researchers sat down people who disagreed with each other in a windowless room, then recorded their uncomfortable exchanges. Participants with opposing views on abortion, gun control, or other hot-button issues were paired together and asked to write a joint statement on the subject in 20 minutes."

"Hundreds of other studies have shown that the best way to get people to stop demonizing each other is to introduce them to the actual human beings they disagree with."

Wow, so citizens assembly For The Win! again.