~ Agenda at a Glance ~

Time
Session
8:00 AM
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 AM
Welcome – Highstead Conservationist Katie Blake
9:15 AM
Keynote – Climate Change, Land, and Your Brain: A Hundred-Year Global Story, Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD
10:15 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Workshops Session A: 90 minutes
12:00 PM
Lunch Break and Networking
1:30 PM
Workshops Session B: 60 minutes
2:30 PM
Break
2:45 PM
Workshops Session C: 75 minutes
4:00 PM
Farewell

WORKSHOPS

*  Presentations with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice themes
# Presentations that are led by or elevate the work of Regional Conservation Partnerships

Session A: 10:30 AM – 12 PM
Session B: 1:30 – 2:30 PM
Session C: 2:45 – 4:00 PM
TRACK 1: Physical and Mental Well-Being
A1: Green and Blue Spaces: Pathways to Better Health
B1: Forest Therapy to Promote Wellness and Strengthen Community
C1: Holyoke Asthma Project Collaboration *
TRACK 2: Listening and Connecting
A2: Scenario Planning: A Tool for Community and Organizational Resilience
B2: How to End the Adventure Gap: Creating New Customers, Employees, and Stewards of The Great Outdoors *
C2: Housing & Conservation: Finding the Common Denominator for Successful Cross-Sector Collaboration *
A3: Broadening Partnership Participation: Resilience for the Forest & Our Communities *#
B3: Transforming Conflict: A Primer and Practical Tools for the Workplace and Beyond (2.5-hour workshop) *
A4: Connect, Don’t Convince: How to Engage People with Different Perspectives *
C3: Stories and Lessons from First Light *
TRACK 3: Resilient Ecosystems
A5: BioMap in Action: Regional, Science-based Collaboration for Greater Impact #
B4. Future Forest Reimagined: Building Resilience for Ecological Recovery *#
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B5: Tree Species in Peril: The Lingering Hemlock Project
C4: Accessing Spatial Data for Strategic Land Conservation
TRACK 4: Integrated Land Use
A6: The Land Conservation and Climate Mitigation Nexus: Flood Resilience
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A7. Where are the Black People? * 
B6: How an RCP Created a New Landowner #
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B7: Activating the Natural Resource Economy *
C5: State of the States: Conservation and Land-Use Policy Around the Region *
TRACK 5: Diverse Partnerships
A8. Collaborative Capacity: How Regional Partnerships Improve Community & Climate Resilience *#
C6: Rural Housing, Climate Forestry, and Community Planning and Development #

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