Wealdstone Brook Workshops
Wealdstone Brook Workshops is a method for collaborative exploration of hard-to-solve local water management problems. It is applicable in situations of unclear responsibilities and deficient communication among stakeholders. The method includes techniques for identifying stakeholders and bringing them together in exercises that clarify challenges and generate novel solutions.
Catharina Landström
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Wealdstone Brook Workshops is a method for integrated management of local water problems in urban catchments. Named after the first application the method utilises participatory techniques to stimulate collaborative action to initiate positive change. Wealdstone Brook Workshops are applicable in situations when weakly developed governance with unclear responsibilities obstructs the needed catchment improvements. When deficiencies in integration, collaboration, and leadership hamper effective project delivery participatory mapping of problems and co-design of solutions through Wealdstone Brooks Workshops can unlock potential for local action and bring new energy to the governance process.
Wealdstone Brook Workshops comprises a set of sequential actions that propel local stakeholders and communities through a process completing with concrete solutions and distribution of responsibility for taking them forward. The core of the Wealdstone Brook Workshops are two, carefully planned, facilitated workshops held a month apart.
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