**First course to be taken before any other course on IAP2's Global Learning Pathway (GLP)**
Understand the principles of meaningful and effective P2 and engagement. Learn how to apply the IAP2 Spectrum and other foundational models to your practice.
Cost: $325 ($275 for IAP2 members | $130 USD for Developing Economies* - please contact us for the discount code) (* developing economies as designated by the International Monetary Fund)
Date and Time:
September 16-17, 2025 (2 days)
6:00 am - 10:30 am MDT
1:00 pm - 5:30 pm BST
3:00 pm - 7:30 pm GMT+3
Note: Must attend both days, all 8 hours to receive a Certificate of Attendance.
IAP2's Challenging Contexts in Public Participation (P2) and Engagement course is a prerequisite to other courses in the Global Learning Pathway. It sets out the underpinning models and frameworks of engagement practice as defined by the global IAP2 community.
The course focuses on what P2 and engagement is, who is involved, standards of practice, and why it is important to be practiced ethically and effectively. You will explore concepts and models in contexts that are challenging, and gain insights into how you can design and apply this knowledge to your practice.
Course objectives
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Define public participation and engagement and related terms and describe its relationship with communication.
- Identify what makes public participation and engagement meaningful and reflect on the benefits, risks and myths related to P2/engagement.
- Identify the role that values play in challenging public participation and engagement work and the leadership attributes that will serve them as they practice.
- Reflect on and apply ethical leadership actions and abilities to challenging engagement situations.
- Apply the Profiles of Engagement model to public participation and engagement and explore organization led and community led engagement and how that impacts the engagement process.
- Apply the IAP2 Spectrum to challenging public participation and engagement situations and practice.
- Explore the Practice Framework as a tool for effective planning and process.
- Reflect on and apply the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion and explore the concept of inter-cultural engagement.
- Explore the role of power and influence in challenging engagement contexts and its impacts to our work.