Types of Convening

There are many types of convening, and reasons to convene. Here are a number of them, described below:

Consultation: to obtain feedback from stakeholders, such as consulting communities for their input. This is a more traditional form of convening.

Capital “C” Consultation: to fulfill specific legal requirements for governments, eg. Government of Canada consulting particular groups of people. This is difficult to do effectively.

Coordination: the organization of different elements and activities so as to work together effectively, such as coordinating a summit on a particular topic eg. climate change.

Collaboration: working together to produce or create something, such as collaboration on a white paper.

Collective Impact: a structured approach to bring people across sectors and organizations together to achieve lasting social change. Read more about Collective Impact here:

Collective Impact

Co-Design: to facilitate users and stakeholders to think and act together like designers to understand complex problems, discover new insights, design and prototype solutions. For example, lab participants might choose a set of principles by which to design prototypes, such as 'solutions will be easy to use and fit into employee's existing workflows'.

Co-Production: to facilitate users, providers and stakeholders to think and work together to prototype and then produce or implement solutions at scale.

Co-Creation: to facilitate users and stakeholders to work together to design, prototype and produce or implement solutions at scale; such as the joint collaborative work to create a list of social enterprises in Ontario.

Source: Flower, Muoio. Gather, The Art & Science of Effective Convening, 2013. https://assets.rockefellerfoundation.org/app/uploads/20130626174021/Gather-The-Art-and-Science-of-Effective-Conveing.pdf

For more information on Why and Who to Convene visit the "Stakeholders" section here:

Stakeholders

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