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Journey Mapping: A Tool for Encouraging Conservation Practices

Agenda: Journey Mapping: A Tool for Encouraging Conservation Practices 

Instructors: Laura Warner, Colby Silvert

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Audience: The intended audience is Extension professionals who conduct urban water conservation programming nationwide, but those who encourage social change in any context may find the material useful.   

Schedule: April 25, 2019, 10:30am – 11:30am

·        Introduction of participants, speakers, and technology

·        Overview of the agenda

·        What is journey mapping?

·        What are the stages of change?

·        Basic overview of this technique

·        Applying journey mapping to good landscape practices: Results of a pilot project

·        Resources available

·        Discussion

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Behavior change takes place in incremental stages, and providing information at points of decisions (or touchpoints) is one of the most important design features for effective household behavior change interventions.

A technique known as journey mapping can be used to understand an extension client's point of view and illustrate their journey (for example, from not considering water conservation strategies, to making a decision about irrigation conservation technologies, to installing and using a soil moisture sensor). Journey mapping is used extensively in commercial marketing, but there is minimal documentation of this strategy being applied to social change or extension. We are developing resources to translate journey mapping into a tool that supports individuals' adoption of conservation practices/technologies. This training will share the tools and provide an overview of how to use this technique to understand how extension clients adopt conservation practices.

Participants will: Become familiar with an innovative tool that can be used to understand Extension audiences / Increase knowledge of the key steps used to create journey maps / Examine the use of this technique in a pilot test project / Discuss potential application to extension programs.

 

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The Extension Foundation was formed in 2006 by Extension Directors and Administrators. Today, the Foundation partners with Cooperative Extension through liaison roles and a formal plan of work with the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) to increase system capacity while providing programmatic services, and helping Extension programs scale and investigate new methods and models for implementing programs. The Foundation provides professional development to Cooperative Extension professionals and offers exclusive services to its members. In 2020 and 2021, the Extension Foundation has awarded 85% of its direct funding back to the Cooperative Extension System, 100% of funds are used to support Cooperative Extension initiatives. 

This technology is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension (funding opportunity no. USDA-NIFA-OP-010186), grant no. 2023-41595-41325 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Extension Foundation. For more information, please visit extension.org. You can view the terms of useat extension.org/terms.

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