Alastair combines knowledge of community systems with active listening and project management skills to deliver meaningful engagement that brings people together to create common goals for the future. Whether in digital or in-person space, Alastair loves to design gatherings that tap into the collective wisdom of community members.
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." – Vince Lombardi
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters - Priya Parker
How can we establish genuine and representative community engagement to ensure that the process builds learning and relationships and the outcome represents the hopes of a community?
Conducting research and writing policy recommendations during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which made recommendations to major metropolitan areas to rethink how they use space - going against the conventional ways in which we have looked and used space in cities for decades.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we are on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
