The Healthy Country Planning (HCP) framework is based on the Conservation Standards to support community engagement in planning. It follows five main steps: 1) Deciding what the plan is about 2) Making the plan 3) Doing and monitoring the work 4) Deciding if the plan is working 5) Telling ourselves and others. The training will focus on the first two steps over 10 workshops.

Healthy Country Planning supports indigenizing the Conservation Standards and roots them within Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge relationships according to place and culture.

HCP distinguishes itself from other planning methods because it:

• provides space to weave together Indigenous and Western knowledge systems (such as Two-Eyed Seeing, or Braiding Knowledges, as well as re-emerging place-based models)

• includes community meetings on the land,

• is an interactive, participatory series of workshops

• builds strength within community by incorporating local best-practices,

• encourages an adaptation that reflects local cultural context, language and practices, and builds on what has already done and accomplished,

• asks communities to define what the plan should look like so it is useful to them,

• usually includes the protection and promotion of place-based Indigenous peoples' cultures (not just ecological aspects) in plans, and

• supports communities to create plans based on their own values, cultures, laws, opportunities and priorities.