Conferences
Strategic Doing(TM) - A Tool for Farmer Wellbeing Community Engagement
Maria Pippidis and Laurie Wolinski
Summary
Through FRSAN-NE funding, community forums were conducted in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maine, Delaware and New Jersey to bring together community partners to learn about farming, identify state specific stress issues and leverage resources to enhance farmer wellbeing. Strategic Doing™ was used as part of the forum agendas to create “Big Easy” and impactful projects on a variety of farm stress related subtopics. Strategic Doing™ is an action-oriented approach that focuses on collaborative actions when faced with complex challenges. The processes helps participants build on existing strengths and assets, create new or expanded networks, and encourages teams to develop new habits of thinking, doing and working together. This method facilitates complex collaborations, moving conversations to actions based on the assets each contributor can offer, and aims for ideas with minimum startup costs and maximum impact. This approach is designed for and helpful in situations in which nobody can tell anybody else what to do and collaboration is the only way to move forward. This session will introduce you to the Strategic Doing™ process and share some of the outcomes and impacts from implementing this process as a successful community engagement tool that brought about significant changes that address farm risk management topics.
Details
| Conference | 2026 Extension Risk Management Education National Conference |
| Presentation Type | 30-Minute Concurrent |