Facilitation of the workshop sought to promote a collaborative learning process with emphasis on reflection among participants, and encouraged a balance between structured discussion and exploration of emergent themes. The aim was to challenge and deliberate the role community‐based research can and should play in adaptation. A number of steps were used to this end. First, prior to the workshop, participants were asked to read four key articles22, 39, 72, 81 and were provided with the workshop format, as well as a list of questions to consider in advance. The workshop began with participants describing the projects they were engaged in, before they were divided into break‐out groups, preselected to have a diversity of members of different ages, years of experience, disciplines, and geographic focus of work. Each group was assigned a facilitator, and questions were posed to stimulate participants to share their experiences and to reflect on CBA as a group, with discretion given to each group to allow discussions to evolve according to the interests of those present. The breakout groups then reconvened, with each profiling the main thoughts and ideas they discussed, which were used for a facilitated full group discussion on key themes.