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Apr 10, 2024 · About ten years ago, park and historic site planners in Canada began expanding the classic Interpretive Master Planning process into a larger and more holistic planning methodology called the Visitor Experience (VE) Strategy.
- Consultation: Some Lessons Learned
Not all of these groups are the same—Indigenous consultation...
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My name is Don Enright. I'm a freelance interpretive planner...
- Consultation: Some Lessons Learned
- There’S A Promise in Consultation
- There’S No Meaningful Difference Between “Consultation” and “Consultation”.
- They’Re Your Relationships, Not mine.
- Don’T Send in Your Junior People to Work with Their Senior People
- Consultation Is An Iterative Process
There’s a promise in calling people up to consult with them, even if it’s a tacit one. By holding a consultation, you’re implying that you will act in some way on what they tell you. If you gather your community to talk about a potential new interpretive centre, for example, you’re implying that you actually intend to build one at some point—and th...
There are groups—often municipal, provincial, or federal government—who have a legislated or policy requirement for consultation in certain circumstances. Some of my clients call this Consultation, as opposed to consultation. And I’m here to tell you that your partners, stakeholders, and communities see absolutely no difference between the two. Thi...
There’s a trend at the moment for agencies who hire planning consultants like me. They write up a statement of work, and in it they say that they want me, the consultant, to contact their partners and stakeholders, set up consultations, and document the results. Sorry, that’s not a best practice. They’re your partners, not mine. If you don’t have a...
This one is really awkward for me as the planning facilitator on the day. My client has invited all the big guns: chiefs in council, respected elders, presidents and chairpeople of societies… but on the client side, the senior managers are nowhere to be seen. They leave everything to a junior staffer, who foists everything over on me, the consultan...
While we are doing much more consultation than we were five or ten years ago, the challenge at the moment is that we are still doing the bare minimum required by policy, which isn’t very much. Consultation is a relationship, and relationships are ongoing. They require work and effort and two-way communication. For me as an interpretive planner and ...
Don Enright. Producer: Search and Destroy. An Emmy-winning producer and a member of the motion picture Academy, Don Enright brings 35 years of creative, managerial, marketing and physical production experience to the creation of entertainment.
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May 14, 2022 · My name is Don Enright. I'm a freelance interpretive planner and visitor experience advisor: I work collaboratively with parks, historic sites, museums, aquariums and other organizations to help bring their stories to life.
Learn how to plan, write, and evaluate interpretive signs for your audience and goals in this online workshop with Don Enright, a freelance interpretive planner and writer. The course includes interactive webinars, quizzes, feedback, and a practicum assignment.
Don Enright—The Art of Visitor Experience. 451 likes · 1 talking about this. Travel the globe with Don Enright, interpretive planner and visitor experience advisor. I help organizations connect...
Don Enright is a freelance interpretive planner and writer with over 30 years experience in the field. Don’s interpretive writing has appeared in national parks, national historic sites, zoos, aquariums, and science centres across Canada. Learn more about Don at his website, donenright.com.
