Lorraine’s upcoming workshops, presentations & classes:
Communication Skills in Conflict Resolution–at SSU Saturday September 7 & 14, 2013
We all long to be close to loved ones and have harmonious relationships atwork and in the community, but misunderstandings and missed connections can block and frustrate us.Effective communication skills can turn these conflicts into opportunities to deepen mutual understanding, solve problems creatively, and co-exist peacefully.
Through short lectures, discussion, interactive exercises & role plays, we will look at
our own approaches to conflict, and learn skills and techniques to enhance and expand
our communication toolkit. Link to SSU site coming soon.
Feeling stuck in grudges, resentment, blame or shame? Can’t let go or move on?
Afternoon Forgiveness Workshop –Oct. TBA Santa Rosa CA
Holding grudges or blaming ourselves damages us and limits our ability to love, grow, and change the world for the better. Forgiveness brings healing and opportunities for change. But what is forgiveness? Why is it so important? And how can we begin to free ourselves from bitterness, resentment, & shame and find compassion instead for ourselves and others?
In this four hour interactive workshop, we will discuss what forgiveness is and isn’t, how you can break the power of the emotional triggers that can lead to grudges and resentments being formed. And how you can choose at any moment to start letting go and forgive. Workshop includes interactive exercises, a guided visualization, and a letting go ritual.
Other Workshops and classes. Lorraine offers workshops and presentations from 30 minutes to three hours on topics such as Managing Conflict in the Workplace, Effective Co-Parenting after a Divorce, Bullying in Schools, Hot Buttons, Communicating with Teens, Successful Communication with Challenging People, The Heart of Communication for Couples, and others, How to Have an Effective Meeting.
She also offers customized communication trainings–from 1 hour to 3 days. Please contact her for a free 30 minute conflict assessment to see what services might benefit you, your family, or your school/organization.
Lorraine Segal is a certified conflict management coach, a forgiveness and communication mentor, a mediator and trainer specializing in transforming communication and resolving conflict for co-parents. Her business, Conflict Remedy, is based in Santa Rosa, California. She also teaches in the conflict resolution program at Sonoma State University.
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Hi Lorraine – a friend forwarded your message on “mobbing” as I have been in this situation recently working on the ADR team for a regulatory government agency. I am a chartered mediator and conflict coach. I am currently studying for my Masters degree in “NeuroScience of Leadership” (something that was a threat to my non-academically trained team lead). I am faszinated by the brain’s neuroplasticity and am counting on the brain’s ability to rewire itself to put this experience successfully into the past. Here in Canada there is little awareness about the term “mobbing” altough I know it happens… I first heard the term in talking to my mother in Austria when she identified my workplace situation. I am encouraged by you sharing this information as I am in the process of ‘stepping up’ my private practice. I have thought of pursuing mobbing in my research for my Masters program somehow. If you have any good and necessary research ideas on this I would welcome your input! All the best, Erika
Hi, Erika–
At the end of my blog posting on this topic are some resources that might get you started.Here is the link to my article, The inury of Mobbing in the Workplace: http://conflictremedy.com/2010/05/20/the-injury-of-mobbing-in-the-workplace/
A longer, more personal article of mine is supposed to be included in a new book by Catherine Mattice on bullying.
I wish you the best with your research; this topic needs to be far more widely known.
Blessings,
Lorraine