Patrick Field

Training and Education

Patrick Field specializes in public sector mediation and consensus building and training in negotiation and consensus building. He is Vice-President of North American Programs at the Consensus Building Institute and Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. Mr. Field has worked on numerous public sector cases. He has helped build agreement among state and federal agencies, communities, and citizens for the $200 million cleanup of the Massachusetts Military Reservation Superfund site. He co-mediated a comprehensive agreement to resolve issues of air quality and cancer risk in four rural Maine communities surrounding a paper mill. He is currently co-mediating the Superfund cleanup of a major industrial site in southwestern Connecticut, facilitating a national pilot on reducing air toxics in Cleveland, Ohio, and co-mediating the establishment of a phosphorus standard for the Florida Everglades.

Mr. Field has designed numerous teaching materials and taught hundreds of commercial, non-profit, local, state, provincial, tribal, and federal officials in negotiation and consensus building. Some of his training clients include the San Diego Environmental Health Coalition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Kentucky Natural Resources Leadership Program, the Alberta Environmental Appeal Board, and the Indian Taxation Advisory Board of Canada. He holds a Masters in Urban Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and resides in Watertown, Massachusetts. He is co-author of the award winning 1996 book, Dealing with an Angry Public.

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