May 29-30, national and state experts will gather in Lansing, Michigan to discuss how to create policies that will enable community members to lead healthy, active lives at the 4th Annual Designing Healthy Livable Communities Conference: The Power of Policy.

NCI Board member and trainer, David Brain, PhD., joins a panel including Harrison Rue of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission in Charlottesville, VA, and local experts for a special training session entitled, “Walking the Talk: Using Practical Consensus Building Techniques, Effective Public Participation Methods and Charrettes to Turn Ideas Into Policy and Policy Into Action to Rebuild Our Communities.” The training takes place from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm on May 30th.

Learn to implement and facilitate collaborative consensus building, effective public participation techniques, charrettes and other practical methods for formulating policy changes. Tried and true methods to get the public and stakeholders to attend your meetings, feel like their voices are heard, come to your next event and become partners for change, instead of obstacles to success, will be shared with session participants.

The 4th Annual Designing Healthy Livable Communities Conference is presented by the Michigan Department of Community Health with support from the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports.