Working Cooperatively for Constructive Change

Reconfigure Education and Training

Conflict management and problem solving is a process and generally does not come naturally. Through education and training the process can be learned. The process is a structured direct dialogue, or a mediation, or consists of a problem solving approach. 
In addition to the will to engage in a process of change, the main ingredients for solving problems and conflicts are: Reconfiguring ideas, reassessing the thinking, changing the view, re-viewing, looking at things in another way, restructuring the different elements, reassembling the parts-cooperatively.

Workshops and Seminars

RECONFIGURE creates customized courses, workshops, seminars, presentations and manuals to fit the needs of professionals in business, education, social service organizations, nonprofits and government.

Sample Topics
Workplace and Community
Education/Schools
Sample Descriptions
Understanding Conflicts--Creating Solutions

When it is important to get along at work, in schools, at home, or in your community. In this workshop participants will:

  • see conflict as an opportunity to improve relationships
  • understand the nature of disputes and conflicts, conflict analysis
  • learn to deal with different conflict handling styles
  • learn to cope with emotions
  • improve communication
  • learn a conflict resolution dialogue
  • learn the basics of the mediation process
  • deal constructively with controversial issues and group conflict

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Peer Mediation and Violence Prevention

Conflict resolution skills is a competency that is being regarded, worldwide, as the number one human relations skill for personal and professional success. Moreover, there is no doubt that the skills of conflict resolution and mediation, learned at an early age in the schools, is a major contributing for violence prevention.

Moreover, it is a basic condition for any working democracy, namely the skill to find common ground, and to search cooperatively for win-win solutions.

The workshop addresses teachers and staff, as well as students. The workshop includes:

  • Conflict resolution style self-assessment
  • Dimensions, types and definitions of conflict, conflict analysis
  • Conflict and diversity: Culture, learning, personality, perspective, perception and behavior, suspicion, prejudice and judgment
  • Most commonly encountered challenges in conflict situations
  • Techniques and skills for communicating effectively
  • The conflict dialogue model
  • The mediation process
  • The group conflict resolution process and a process for dealing with controversial issues
  • Transferring skills, and training/teaching techniques

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Moving in the Same Direction: Conducting Effective Meetings with the Six Thinking Hats ®

"It really helps us move right along in meetings!" "We came up with some great ideas!" If this is what you would like to hear after a meeting, then you want to learn a simple and powerful method to enhance collaboration, creativity and innovative problem solving in your teams. Developed by Dr. Edward de Bono, an internationally recognized authority on thinking and creativity, the approach is used in major corporations and in education worldwide. The method helps you to:

  • create innovative solutions
  • explore ideas cooperatively
  • lead productive meetings
  • utilize "six-dimensional" thinking for thoroughly exploring a problem
  • save time and have fun!

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Working with Diversity - Create More Diversity Awareness and Use Communication Tools to Leverage Diversity at the Workplace

Build on every employee's diverse experience and perspective about life. This creates leverage in your organization by contributing to improved teamwork and customer service. In this workshop participants will learn to become better prepared to work and relate to people who come from different cultures, speak different languages, have different values and preferences, or have a very different life experience. Participants will also:

  • gain an understanding of the meaning of diversity
  • learn to deal with bias and stereotyping
  • understand the reasons for difference in perceptions
  • learn to manage intercultural conflict
  • and learn to use diversity to expand their horizons and opportunities

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Creating Emotionally Safe, Healthy and Productive Workplaces: Preventing Mobbing/Bullying in Schools and among Coworkers

Mobbing is group-bullying, "ganging-up." It happens in schools, it happens at the workplace. Students or co-workers--subordinates or superiors--harass, intimidate and humiliate a student or a coworker and thus isolate the person. Mobbing is extreme and continuous harassment and severely affects the mental and physical health of targets. At the workplace, mobbing also creates great costs. See: www.mobbing-usa.com.

Workshops, seminars and presentations on the topic include:

  • how it happens
  • why it occurs and persists
  • how it impacts targets, co-workers and the organization
  • what must be done to prevent bullying/mobbing
  • how to intervene adequately

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