Community Facilitation & Problem-Solving

Mission: Shaping Our Summit is a community organization whose mission is to create and improve opportunities for citizen involvement and community collaboration to enhance the long-term social, civic, environmental and economic well-being of our entire community.

Services: In addition to its many other programs, Shaping our Summit offers a range of facilitation and problem solving services that support involvement and collaboration. Selected examples of past work are mentioned for each category.

· Strategic Planning to increase effectiveness for non-profit organizations (Family & Intercultural Resource Center, Summit Recycling Project, Zoomers)

· Collaborative, Countywide Projects (Beanpole Grant Applications – planning for telecom improvements)

· Public Forums to allow a safe place for dialogue on controversial issues (White River National Forest Plan Forum)

· Process Design and Meeting Facilitation to assist governments in getting input from constituents, in general or on a specific issue (Silverthorne Neighborhood Meetings, Frisco Master Plan Revision)

Philosophy: Underlying our services is a belief that broad-based participation leads to more effective problem solving. Tapping the wealth of information, skills and perspectives of citizens, and engaging them in finding solutions to the problems that affect their everyday lives is a critical step in creating a healthy and sustainable community.

Facilitators: Shaping Our Summit is a program of the Meridian Institute, a nationally and internationally recognized organization that convenes and facilitates multi-party, problem-solving and conflict resolution processes, assists diverse parties in creative alliances, designs process which assist organizations in achieving sustainable policies and durable decisions, and advances the understanding of collaborative decision-making. Our facilitation and problem solving services are provided by Meridian/Shaping our Summit staff and a skilled group of trained volunteers.

To Contact Us: If you are interested in utilizing our facilitation and problem solving services, becoming a volunteer facilitator, or attending our next facilitation training, please contact Jennifer Pratt Miles at sos@merid.org or 513-8340 x 213.

For more information, please contact

Jennifer Pratt Miles

Shaping Our Summit

105 Village Place; PO Box 1829

Dillon, CO 80435

phone: (970) 513.8340 x213;

fax: (970) 513.8348; sos@merid.org

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