Gabriola Talks!

All Candidates Meeting:
Sunday, 2 October, 2022 from 1:30 to 4:00

Video Recording of All Candidates meeting: Sunday, 2 October, 1:30 – 4:00 at the Community Hall


Gabriola Talks: A ‘made-on-Gabe’ public engagement process

Gabriola Talks! is an ongoing series of conversations between fellow islanders about complex issues that affect the community. Sustainable Gabriola hosted the first meeting in May 2019 to ask participants to envision what effective cross-community dialogue could look like, and to help identify topics for future discussion. The workshop was designed to draw out ideas of what does (and does not) work in community discussions, and to set some grounding principles for future discussions.

Past event reports

Information links

Background reading (PDFs)

Engaging Polarities
Four Levels of Listening
Ground Rules for Creative Dialogue
Polarization, Conversation and Collective Intelligence
The World Café in Action Research Settings

Photo: Anne Landry