collaboration, but for genuine partnership, shared ownership, and relationships built to last. This is not a temporary pressure. It reflects a permanent shift in rights, law, and the moral expectations of the world in which the industry now operates. The Round Tables work was therefore not merely an early consultation framework. It was an early and systematic effort to build collaborative, agreement-seeking processes that produced outcomes. The processes developed in Canada and demonstrated in Lima in 1998 were early expressions of what is now described in many places as partnership practice. They showed that the way a process is designed can move parties from being sources of input to being builders of outcomes — which is precisely what The Art of How is about. Figure 2 — The Resiliency and Reciprocity Value Equation: progression from consultation toward collaboration, consensus, consent and partnership 6. LIMA, PERU AND THE CONTINUITY OF DIALOGUE The Lima workshop in 1998 demonstrated that these ideas were not confined to Canada. The gathering was built in the image of dialogue — structured, inclusive, participant-driven. The facilitation was led by Antonio Bernales and Juan Arcos, Peruvian mediators and dialogue practitioners who created the conditions in which seventy-six people from eleven Latin American countries could build a shared vision and strategic objectives in real time. The 160
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