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Noon - 12:45 p.m., New Hampshire Listens' Local Lunch Box is a 45-minute informative and interactive session aimed at sharing bite-sized tips and resources from our toolbox for community engagement and facilitation. Topics range from building community, hosting events, creating group agreements, and more! In this session, we'll discuss what it means to ask good questions as a facilitator and provide some practice in reframing questions for more constructive dialogue. Save Your Seat!

8 a.m. - 9 a.m., For decades, western states have dominated snow research in the United States. Snow STORE brings together collaborators in academia and industry from New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont to enhance observations of mountain snowpacks at existing research sites and add instrumentation to new ones. Mount Washington Observatory, Wildcat Mountain Resort, and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest are among the sites in the Granite State. Snow STORE is the first monitoring system of its kind…

Noon - 12:45 p.m., New Hampshire Listens' Local Lunch Box is a 45-minute informative and interactive session aimed at sharing bite-sized tips and resources from our toolbox for community engagement and facilitation. Topics range from building community, hosting events, creating group agreements, and more! In this session, we'll discuss the principles of collective impact and how to support community change through intentional facilitation. Save Your Seat!

Noon - 2:30 p.m., New Hampshire Listens’ Online Advanced Facilitator Training focuses on those difficult moments where people are in dialogue across significant differences. Many people are often trained to remain “neutral” when serving as facilitators for public engagement and community dialogues. However, that doesn’t mean facilitators should remain passive in the face of misunderstandings and harmful dynamics. We focus on self-reflection, centering equity, and building confidence to address…

Noon - 1 p.m., New Hampshire Listens' Local Lunch Box is a 45-minute informative and interactive session aimed at sharing bite-sized tips and resources from our toolbox for community engagement and facilitation. Topics range from building community, hosting events, creating group agreements, and more! In this session, we'll share tips on cultivating an environment that keeps your events engaging and productive while attending to differences in participant perspectives. Save Your Seat!