This one-day, intermediate-level course will provide you with those vital leading edge skills to approach community engagement from a unique cultural awareness perspective — putting community first at the front-end of the project by actively listening to and engaging with the very people who will be impacted by the project. Participants will learn essential information on how to create authentic community engagement, how to discover human patterns that organically exist in the community, develop solutions to mitigate impact, and how to honestly listen to the people in the community in their own environment by learning how to visit the local restaurants, libraries, schools, etc., where “life happens." With this new knowledge gained, infrastructure-based companies will able to incorporate community needs in the acquisition process.