Dialogue Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement
understanding, co-creation, support decision making
I design and facilitate dialogue processes that foster understanding and make development possible.
From citizen dialogues to co-creative workshops.
Whether working with small or large groups, in-person or online, my approach is always tailored to the context, the participants and the respective phase of the process.
Depending on the context, different methods take centre stage.
Inform & understand
Here, transparency, contextual clarity and exchange are key. I structure expert input, facilitate dialogue and make sure that questions, perspectives and concerns become visible — between citizens, public administration, political actors and the professional community.
Formats: citizen information sessions, public dialogue events, professional forums
Examples: information events on topics such as the heat transition, mobility development or urban planning
Gathering & Developing Perspectives
When cities and organisations face fundamental decision points, I support dialogue processes in which shared future visions, strategic goals and directions for action emerge. In large groups, I create structures that enable exchange while providing orientation.
Methods: large-group facilitation, co-creative formats
Examples: visioning processes, regional conferences, strategic future workshops
Collaborate & Create
In cooperative workshops and work sessions, actors from administration, politics, civil society and networks work together to solve clearly defined questions
Methods: design thinking, systemic approaches, gamification
Examples: workshops on site or neighbourhood development, exchange formats within city networks
Preparing Recommendations & Decisions
Structured dialogue formats such as citizens’ assemblies or workshops with political decision-makers foster deeper engagement and lead to well-grounded recommendations.
Methods: mediation, systemic consensus for decisions, appreciative inquiery
Examples: citizens’ forums on public space design or project prioritisation, workshops to prepare political decisions
Projects
Future workshop: Canetti House in Bulgaria
Role: Dialogue facilitation
Format: Future workshop
Focus: Culture, literature and urban development
The Canetti House is evolving into a centre for cultural memory and literature. In an international future workshop, I designed and facilitated a co-creative development process with 20 cultural actors from Ruse (Bulgaria), Germany and Austria, in close collaboration with the board of the International Elias Canetti Society.
Commissioned by: International Elias Canetti Society, Ruse, Bulgaria
Integrated sustainable urban development STEK 2035
Role: Change process support, dialogue facilitation
Format: stakeholder workshops, project advisory board, action days
Heidelberg’s Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Concept 2035 sets the strategic framework for the city’s long-term development. Its implementation requires participation that builds ownership and has a lasting impact.
Over a period of three years, I supported the city’s interdisciplinary project team in designing and implementing the participation strategy: engaging key stakeholders, reaching out in public spaces and applying creative formats — complemented by in-depth workshops on key transformation areas.
In cooperation with Kokonsult
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Urban Infrastructure & Personnel Development, Morocco
Role: Dialogue facilitation
Format: planning workshopp
Morocco is investing in wastewater treatment for small and medium-sized cities – a key foundation for healthy, future-ready urban development. I facilitated a two-day planning workshop on personnel development with local partners: the regional operating company Marrakesh-Safi, sequa gGmbH and GIZ.
Commissioned by: sequa gGmbH
MöWa mobil – Shaping the Mobility Transition Through Dialogue
Role: Dialogue facilitation, change process support
Format: participation workshops with citizens, stakeholders, politics and business
How can Mörfelden-Walldorf shape the mobility transition? What does the city society want to achieve — and what needs to change? I support the municipal team in designing an implementation-oriented planning process that builds acceptance and defines clear priorities for sustainable mobility.
Commissioned by: Kokonsult
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Interested in Working Together?
I’d be happy to offer a free 30-minute creative brainstorming session for your next dialogue event.
Contact me by phone or email..
Phone: +49 (0)1575 322 8881
Mail: kontakt(@)katharina-lampe.eu