Strengthening Communities

Offering trainings and workshops for government officials, organizations and the public

Skills-Based Workshop:

Developing Dialogue through Healthy Communication.

Learn the key framework for navigating conflict and challenging conversations. Identify key drivers, needs and emotions driving the energy of interactions, enhance emotional safety, promote mutual empathy and establish opportunity to mutually respectful resolution.

Skills learned

  • Identifying authentic self from protective self and developing understanding from a neurological perspective of why conflicts cannot be resolved in dysregulated states

  • How to ground individually and recenter the conversation

  • Deciphering content from core conflict drivers

  • The Finding US four step process for creating healthy dialogue from discord

  • How to establish space for mutual validation and empathy without agreement or conceding and why doing so is imperative for resolution and relationship.

  • Keys to negotiating and creating resolutions that enhance trust and improve connection.

This workshop is customizable based on audience size, with minimum duration of 90 minutes.


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Facilitation and Mediation

Customized, community and workplace discussions to promote movement through stalemates, repair fractured communication, enhance collaboration and catalyze reconnection.

Examples of topics:

  • Overcoming left versus right divides

  • Local community issues

  • Policy centered disputes