“I wish to tell you how happy my council is, and how impressed they were, with the results you obtained at the community stakeholders meeting on the future of the streetscape. Your unobtrusive, yet insistent, style cut through the prepared positions of many and made us all confront the issues armed with well-presented, high-level information. The result was much better than I had hoped for.”
“The Panel ... wishes to make clear that it considers Mr Offor to have been a thorough, independent and reliable expert witness, who clearly took seriously the primacy of his obligation to the Panel and to the decision making process. The Panel places great weight on his conclusions.”
“The thing that's different with Tim's facilitation is that he has the depth of knowledge to cope with the really tough, gritty issues. Our experience has been through a few participative processes that have had to bring along traditionally conflicting interests and points of view. And these are tough players – campaigners like WWF, mining companies with a lot to win or lose, and unionists not renowned for surrendering at the first sign of resistance.”
