Tag: CWA

#CommunityWoodlands: Great CWA board meeting in Perth discussing funding, de minimis & the conference

Coming up with strategies to deal with perennial issues like core funding, delivering more benefits to members and ensuring a really engaging and interesting annual conference in late August was a great deal more fun than it sounds. Lively discussions on State Aid, de minimis and Land Reform. A great selection of Borders Biscuits. Couldn’t have been a more convivial meeting in Perth!

The photo was taken on Skye during a field trip to Sleat Forest with Chris Marsh at the 2013 CWA conference – great day.

James Hilder => #ConflictResolution Guru from An Roth

Yesterday myself and Nikki Woolf (CGDT Greener ColGlen admin and communications officer as well as KCFC Forest Operations Administrator) attended James Hilder’s inspirational and really-very-useful seminar on conflict resolution held by the Community Woodlands Association in Ardfern.

Some real nuggets came up and some hugely useful processes, all of which I hope we can implement at CGDT. Preparation was the one which came up again and again – the best way to deal with destructive conflict is to prepare yourself and your organisation so that it doesn’t happen. Communicate well, and much of the angst of conflict is obviated – and if there is conflict, it is a useful, thought-provoking, solutions-oriented, issue-based process.

Thanks James, great day!

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