TFD Approach
TFD Approach

TFD Approach

The Forests Dialogue (TFD) is a platform and process for multi-stakeholder discussion and collaboration on the most pressing local and global issues facing forests and people. Our primary tool – focused dialogue – is simple and powerful.

Consistent with established principles of successful multi-stakeholder dialogue processes, and based on its decades of experience, TFD pursues its mission by following a structured, phased approach to each of its initiative topics:

Engage
Engage

We first engage a diversity of interests to foster relationships and build around contentious forest issues, or ‘fracture lines’.

Explore
Explore

We then explore the issues at hand and craft a shared understanding of the objectives, challenges and opportunities ahead.

Change
Change

We ultimately seek change through consensus-based collaboration aimed at immediate action and long-term progress.

Process
Engage
Explore
Change