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SUMMARY:RRNW Fall 2026 Short Course: Virtual Facilitation Skills for River Restoration Professionals
DESCRIPTION:River Restoration Northwest presents Virtual Facilitation Skills for River Restoration Professionals\n\n\nCourse Description: Fall 2026 Short Course: Virtual Facilitation Skills for River Restoration Professionals – River Restoration NW\n\nMost professionals who convene groups and lead meetings do so as part of their job without formal training in facilitation. They manage agendas\, keep time\, and move through items. The result is often meetings that consume significant organizational resources while running the risk of not producing valuable insights\, clear decisions\, or high participant engagement. \nThis training in virtual facilitation\, led by Maggie Chumbley of Lead Groups Better Inc.\, draws on more than a decade of professional facilitation experience in government\, conservation\, and environmental contexts to offer participants a clear and practical framework for leading groups well in virtual environments. \nThe emphasis of this course is on what works\, and why. Participants will leave with a set of skills and tools they can apply immediately\, grounded in an understanding of how groups actually think and make decisions together. \nInstructor: Maggie Chumbley – Founder\, Lead Groups Better\, Inc.\nDates: Tuesdays & Thursdays September 15\, 17\, 22\, 24\, 2026 (10am–Noon PT)\nLocation: Zoom\nPricing: $600\n \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourse objective and anticipated skill transfer\n\nParticipants will leave this course with practical skills they can use right away. By the end\, they will be able to design agendas that generate real engagement rather than just organize time; choose and use facilitation tools that fit the situation; read group dynamics as they unfold and adjust on the fly; and run at least five Liberating Structures in a virtual setting. River restoration professionals work in complex\, multi-stakeholder environments — this course is designed with that context in mind. \n\n\n\nMaterial to be covered\n\nA virtual meeting is not an in-person meeting conducted on camera. It is a different medium\, with different rules\, different constraints on attention\, and different opportunities for group engagement. Facilitators who treat it as a lesser version of an in-person experience will consistently underperform what the medium makes possible. \nVirtual environments offer capabilities that in-person settings do not. Every participant has an internet connection and a keyboard. Ideas can be collected simultaneously and anonymously. Responses can be gathered from an entire group in the time it would take one person to speak. Structured written exchanges can surface thinking that would never emerge in live open discussion. These are not workarounds\, but tools with genuine advantages\, and many virtual meetings never use them. \nAt the same time\, virtual environments place particular demands on attention that in-person settings do not. Managing that attention\, designing sessions that work with it rather than against it\, and keeping participants genuinely present and engaged requires a distinct skill set that we will explore. \n\nFoundational facilitation skills for virtual environments – Core competencies for leading virtual sessions effectively\, from routine team meetings to complex\, multi-stakeholder processes.\nPurpose\, clarity\, and agenda design – Methods for clarifying session objectives and designing agendas that support genuine group engagement rather than simply organizing time.\nFacilitator awareness and attunement – Skills for reading group dynamics in real time\, including what to attend to\, how to adjust in the moment\, and how to create conditions for productive thinking.\nHigh-leverage facilitation tools (Liberating Structures) –  Five to six practical structures that change how groups engage\, distributing voice and attention in ways that conventional meeting formats do not. Each technique is demonstrated and practiced during the training.\nAdaptive facilitation for complex systems – Frameworks for working with groups navigating uncertainty\, conflict\, or situations where the path forward is not yet clear. Draws on systems thinking and complexity-informed facilitation practice.\nManaging group dynamics – Practical skills for navigating the situations that most often derail meetings\, including dominant voices\, disengagement\, conflict\, and difficult conversations.\n\n\n\n\nCourse Outline\n\nSession 1 – Sept 15: The Virtual Meeting as a Distinct Medium\nWhat makes virtual facilitation different\, and how to use the medium’s unique advantages rather than work around them. \nSession 2 – Sept 17: Design and Clarity\nHow to clarify purpose\, build agendas that produce real outcomes\, and match structure to context. \nSession 3 – Sept 22: Attention\, Dynamics\, and Difficult Moments\nSkills for keeping participants present and engaged\, and for navigating the situations that most often derail meetings. \nSession 4 – Sept 24: Complexity\, Application\, and Practice\nFacilitation in uncertain and contested situations\, plus hands-on application to the sessions you are actually planning. \n\n\n\nZoom Course Logistics\n\nFour sessions\, two hours each\, delivered via Zoom. Sessions are spaced to allow participants to apply learning between meetings. \nFour hours of office hours are included for individual coaching and meeting design support. Participants are encouraged to bring real sessions they are planning to office hours. Design support is available for any meeting or facilitated process\, not only those related to training content. \n\n\n\nTarget audience and recommended prerequisites\n\nTarget Audience: River restoration professionals including public agencies\, non-governmental organizations\, designers\, and funders. \nRecommended Prereqs: None \n\n\n\nRecommended pre-short-course reading and/or websites\n\n\nhttps://www.liberatingstructures.com/\nLiberating Structures App: https://liberatingstructures.app/en/\n\n\n\n\nParticipant Technology Requirements\n\nLaptops required? Yes \nSoftware to be loaded prior to class: Zoom – https://www.zoom.com
URL:https://pnamp.org/event/virtual-facilitation-skills-for-river-restoration-professionals/2026-09-22/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Non-PNAMP Event
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SUMMARY:RRNW Fall 2026 Short Course: Virtual Facilitation Skills for River Restoration Professionals
DESCRIPTION:River Restoration Northwest presents Virtual Facilitation Skills for River Restoration Professionals\n\n\nCourse Description: Fall 2026 Short Course: Virtual Facilitation Skills for River Restoration Professionals – River Restoration NW\n\nMost professionals who convene groups and lead meetings do so as part of their job without formal training in facilitation. They manage agendas\, keep time\, and move through items. The result is often meetings that consume significant organizational resources while running the risk of not producing valuable insights\, clear decisions\, or high participant engagement. \nThis training in virtual facilitation\, led by Maggie Chumbley of Lead Groups Better Inc.\, draws on more than a decade of professional facilitation experience in government\, conservation\, and environmental contexts to offer participants a clear and practical framework for leading groups well in virtual environments. \nThe emphasis of this course is on what works\, and why. Participants will leave with a set of skills and tools they can apply immediately\, grounded in an understanding of how groups actually think and make decisions together. \nInstructor: Maggie Chumbley – Founder\, Lead Groups Better\, Inc.\nDates: Tuesdays & Thursdays September 15\, 17\, 22\, 24\, 2026 (10am–Noon PT)\nLocation: Zoom\nPricing: $600\n \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourse objective and anticipated skill transfer\n\nParticipants will leave this course with practical skills they can use right away. By the end\, they will be able to design agendas that generate real engagement rather than just organize time; choose and use facilitation tools that fit the situation; read group dynamics as they unfold and adjust on the fly; and run at least five Liberating Structures in a virtual setting. River restoration professionals work in complex\, multi-stakeholder environments — this course is designed with that context in mind. \n\n\n\nMaterial to be covered\n\nA virtual meeting is not an in-person meeting conducted on camera. It is a different medium\, with different rules\, different constraints on attention\, and different opportunities for group engagement. Facilitators who treat it as a lesser version of an in-person experience will consistently underperform what the medium makes possible. \nVirtual environments offer capabilities that in-person settings do not. Every participant has an internet connection and a keyboard. Ideas can be collected simultaneously and anonymously. Responses can be gathered from an entire group in the time it would take one person to speak. Structured written exchanges can surface thinking that would never emerge in live open discussion. These are not workarounds\, but tools with genuine advantages\, and many virtual meetings never use them. \nAt the same time\, virtual environments place particular demands on attention that in-person settings do not. Managing that attention\, designing sessions that work with it rather than against it\, and keeping participants genuinely present and engaged requires a distinct skill set that we will explore. \n\nFoundational facilitation skills for virtual environments – Core competencies for leading virtual sessions effectively\, from routine team meetings to complex\, multi-stakeholder processes.\nPurpose\, clarity\, and agenda design – Methods for clarifying session objectives and designing agendas that support genuine group engagement rather than simply organizing time.\nFacilitator awareness and attunement – Skills for reading group dynamics in real time\, including what to attend to\, how to adjust in the moment\, and how to create conditions for productive thinking.\nHigh-leverage facilitation tools (Liberating Structures) –  Five to six practical structures that change how groups engage\, distributing voice and attention in ways that conventional meeting formats do not. Each technique is demonstrated and practiced during the training.\nAdaptive facilitation for complex systems – Frameworks for working with groups navigating uncertainty\, conflict\, or situations where the path forward is not yet clear. Draws on systems thinking and complexity-informed facilitation practice.\nManaging group dynamics – Practical skills for navigating the situations that most often derail meetings\, including dominant voices\, disengagement\, conflict\, and difficult conversations.\n\n\n\n\nCourse Outline\n\nSession 1 – Sept 15: The Virtual Meeting as a Distinct Medium\nWhat makes virtual facilitation different\, and how to use the medium’s unique advantages rather than work around them. \nSession 2 – Sept 17: Design and Clarity\nHow to clarify purpose\, build agendas that produce real outcomes\, and match structure to context. \nSession 3 – Sept 22: Attention\, Dynamics\, and Difficult Moments\nSkills for keeping participants present and engaged\, and for navigating the situations that most often derail meetings. \nSession 4 – Sept 24: Complexity\, Application\, and Practice\nFacilitation in uncertain and contested situations\, plus hands-on application to the sessions you are actually planning. \n\n\n\nZoom Course Logistics\n\nFour sessions\, two hours each\, delivered via Zoom. Sessions are spaced to allow participants to apply learning between meetings. \nFour hours of office hours are included for individual coaching and meeting design support. Participants are encouraged to bring real sessions they are planning to office hours. Design support is available for any meeting or facilitated process\, not only those related to training content. \n\n\n\nTarget audience and recommended prerequisites\n\nTarget Audience: River restoration professionals including public agencies\, non-governmental organizations\, designers\, and funders. \nRecommended Prereqs: None \n\n\n\nRecommended pre-short-course reading and/or websites\n\n\nhttps://www.liberatingstructures.com/\nLiberating Structures App: https://liberatingstructures.app/en/\n\n\n\n\nParticipant Technology Requirements\n\nLaptops required? Yes \nSoftware to be loaded prior to class: Zoom – https://www.zoom.com
URL:https://pnamp.org/event/virtual-facilitation-skills-for-river-restoration-professionals/2026-09-24/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Non-PNAMP Event
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SUMMARY:PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (October 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 10:00 am (PDT) on Thursday\, October 15th for the next meeting of the PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG). During the meeting\, we will update participants on current tasks\, hear a presentation about innovative fish monitoring\, and provide you with opportunities to engage regional managers and experts. These meetings are an opportune time to discuss tasks and get input from members on where they see importance or could use facilitated support. \nTech Talk: Towards interactive\, language-guided tracking of salmon in sonar video \nPresenter: Kai Van Brunt\, Research Assistant in the Beery Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (coauthors are Justin Kay\, PhD student; and Sara Beery\, Associate Professor\, MIT) \nPresentation description: \nSonar video cameras are deployed underwater in rivers throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska to count the number of salmon migrating each year to spawn\, informing the setting of fishing quotas and enabling monitoring of population response to conservation actions. Stakeholders have begun incorporating computer vision-based processing to reduce the time needed to process sonar video into salmon counts. This processing involves a specialized detection model and tracker that tracks fish as they enter and exit the field of view. While these specialized models perform well at river locations that appear in training data\, their performance is brittle under environmental shift\, causing prediction errors at new deployments and in changing environments. \nCorrecting erroneous tracking predictions involves collecting new ground truth annotations and re-training tracking models\, which is time-consuming and requires machine learning and data science expertise. We evaluated the potential of a new approach to working with imperfect tracking predictions that addresses these problems via an interactive prediction correction workflow taking place as a conversation with a multimodal large language model\, which processes video and text jointly and responds with the requested tracks\, or refines its earlier predictions based on the user’s comments. Instead of requiring manual labeling from scratch\, users guide the model to produce better tracks; instead of requiring fine-tuning\, the model updates its predictions in real-time conditioned on the user’s correction prompts. Our experiments with training a model for this task demonstrate that this workflow is possible\, but there is much room for improvement. \n\nAgenda \n\n10:00 – Welcome and Introductions\n10:05 – Task Updates\n10:30 – Tech Talk\n11:10 – Q&A\n11:30 – Adjourn\n\nClick link below to join on October 15th \n\n\nMicrosoft Teams Need help?\n\nJoin the meeting on October 15th\nMeeting ID: 233 720 630 552 0\nPasscode: RR9Qf7Tr\n\n\n\nDial in by phone\n+1 207-387-0436\,\,64429963# United States\, Portland\nFind a local number\nPhone conference ID: 644 299 63#\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNever been to a FMWG meeting? This meeting is a perfect time to learn about the project\, join in\, and help guide future work. \nMissed a previous FMWG meeting? Check out our YouTube page for presentations or task meetings. \n\nThe PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG)\, meets quarterly to discuss task progress\, share expertise through guest presentations\, and support collaboration\, communication\, and coordination among fish monitoring practitioners for effective monitoring and efficient data sharing. The FMWG is also interested in your work; if you would like to present your innovative fish monitoring ideas or any recent publications at a future meeting please contact Meg Dethloff\, mdethloff@psmfc.org
URL:https://pnamp.org/event/pnamp-fish-monitoring-work-group-october-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:FMWG Event,PNAMP Event
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SUMMARY:3rd International Invasive Species & Climate Change Conference (virtual and free)
DESCRIPTION:Please join the North American Invasive Species Management Association (NAISMA) for the 3rd annual International Invasive Species and Climate Change Conference (IISCCC) organized by the Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Network on December 1 and 2\, 2026. Both days will begin and 12 pm (CST) (10 am PST) and end 4 pm (CST) (2pm PST) \nVisit the website for details: Invasive Species and Climate Change Conference Day 1 and Invasive Species and Climate Change Conference Day 2 \nThis year’s theme is\, “Redefining invasive species management in a changing world.” This conference is VIRTUAL allowing for more international attendance while reducing our carbon footprint. Please click here to register for both days of this event (a single registration link will be used for the duration of the event).
URL:https://pnamp.org/event/3rd-international-invasive-species-climate-change-conference-virtual-and-free/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Non-PNAMP Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261215T080000
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SUMMARY:Northwest Power and Conservation Council Meeting (December 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\, meeting time\, and other materials will be posted at the NPCC website the week before the meeting here: Council Meeting | Northwest Power and Conservation Council
URL:https://pnamp.org/event/northwest-power-and-conservation-council-meeting-december-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Non-PNAMP Event
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