The South East Alberta Watershed Alliance (SEAWA) is one of Alberta’s designated Watershed Planning and Advisory Councils. It is responsible for convening diverse stakeholders, reporting on watershed health, and supporting collaborative planning for sustainable water management.

SEAWA’s work requires effective dialogue across many perspectives. Yet discussions among board members, staff, and volunteers often turn inward, with participants anchored in their own viewpoints rather than engaging in curiosity-driven inquiry and collaboration. Conversations can drift toward needling each other or guests and implying or assigning responsibility, which limits collective knowledge sharing and mapping.

The "SEAWA futures: From echo to insight" project seeks to address this challenge by building organizational capacity in facilitation, diplomacy and functional consensus-building.