Our Approach

Gabinet & Associates Inc. is a collaboration of leading senior Calgary and Canadian practitioners in stakeholder and public participation, stakeholder design and management, and consultation . We specialize in facilitating groups of any size to provide their best input on any conceivable subject.

 

Generally we use an asset-based as opposed to a problem-solving approach to everything we do.

This approach surfaces the issues but doesn't allow people to get bogged down in them.

 

Not only is G&A's approach effective, fun and engaging, but we offer the unique capability of analyzing enormous amounts of qualitative and quantitative input and data called a structured qualitative analysis to produce

  • clear

  • unambiguous

  • concise

  • supportable themes, and

  • directions.

Planners, technical personnel, artists, municipal officials and politicians can readily utilize our detailed reporting in testing preliminary concepts, creating artists' renditions, or in drafting plans/policies. They can bet their proposed plans on our analyses.

 

Techniques to guide our groups include:

  • community visioning techniques
  • appreciative inquiry
  • powerful questions and world cafes
  • workshops and trainings
  • group interviews and focus groups
  • strategy sessions 
  • peer reviews
  • tailor-made group sessions