Community Planning and Development

Communities today are faced with complex challenges that cannot be solved by any one group.  Environmental concerns, educational challenges, poverty and other issues require multiple perspectives, systems thinking, deep listening and dialogue.  Panta Rei Consulting brings the tools, frameworks and skills to help communities develop a shared vision for their future and a plan for getting there.

Our expertise includes:

• ethnographic research
• stakeholder management
• Future Search™ conferences
• Open Space™ technology
• interactive public meetings

Communities are complex, living organisms, and community planning is a process of working collaboratively with diverse groups of people who are linked by common geography or interest.  Whether a school trying engage students, parents and local agencies, or a “megacommunity” planning to avoid a regional public health crisis, we collaboratively design with you the right process to achieve your goal, bringing together key partners and members to tap their own wisdom, build shared responsibility to solve problems and enhance the well-being of the community in lasting ways.