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2021 Trainings for Rising Up
Service Providers
How to Collaborate Respectfully When You Disagree
- A Two-Part Training -
0Part 10 April 16, Friday, 1:00-3:00pm  
0Part 20 April 30, Friday, 1:00-3:00pm
Ever find yourself wanting collaboration, but end up getting stuck in strong feelings and disagreements? Curious about how to connect deeply to find solutions?
 
Join us in this two-part training and learn and practice how to prepare for challenging conversations, build self-awareness, and engage with cross-cultural contexts with more ease and skill.
0PART 10
In the first session, you'll learn ways to prepare for hard conversations. You'll practice techniques to center yourself and manage stress and strong feelings and triggers. Together we'll discuss agreements you and others can make before starting hard conversations to help your conversation be successful. We'll discuss what bringing curiosity into difficult conversations looks like.
0PART 20
In the second session, you'll learn how to communicate effectively so that other people understand your needs and can hear your perspective. You'll practice the core skills of I-statements, reframing, and cultural agility.
TRAINERS
Karen H. Lipney
As ADR Programs Director for Community Boards, Karen oversees the day-to-day operations of its programs including mediation, conflict coaching, facilitation, and training. She also trains and supervises the organization's 450+ volunteers, as well as maintaining crucial relationships that forward the mission and values of Community Boards. Karen is a trainer, mediator, facilitator, conflict coach, and is a co-trainer of The Basics of Mediation and Beyond the Basics.
 
Chelsea Kaplan
Chelsea is the program coordinator for the Rising Up program at Community Boards. She is a mediator, facilitator, conflict coach, and trainer. Her background focus is the way in which trauma results from conflict and its impact on individual and community mental health, including the ability to heal and reconcile.