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DESCRIPTION:Greetings!\n\nCome learn practical concepts and skills to welcome, include 
 and mediate/facilitate diverse groups of people, styles, and perspectives. 
 This 6 part class include ample small and large group activities to gain 
 more familiarity, comfort and facility with  various key diversity issues. 
 Learn an expanded model of diversity awareness based on the Process Work of 
 Arnold Mindell.\n\nDiversity Awareness for Mediators and Conflict & Group 
 Facilitators\nWith Bill Say, M.A.\n\n6 Wednesday Evenings 6:30-9pm starting 
 October 16\n \nAs facilitators and mediators, an important part of what we 
 are mediating and facilitating is our human diversity and the complex rank 
 and privilege dynamics associated with those differences.\n \nThis 
 experiential training includes key diversity awareness concepts, practical 
 tools, awareness development work, and small and large group sessions to 
 give you ample opportunities to practice, learn, explore, discuss and 
 grow.\n  \n* Participants will learn how to create more inclusive and 
 welcoming environments\n* Mediators will learn practical ways to detect and 
 reduce bias\n*       Participants will be better able to intervene in 
 groups and mediations when bias or other diversity issues arise\n*     
   Participants will learn how rank and privilege influence conflict, 
 communication, and relationships\n*       Participants will become more 
 comfortable talking about diversity issues\n*       Participants will 
 be better able to analyze and understand relationship tensions and 
 conflicts related to human differences\n\nBill Say, M.A., has over twenty 
 years experience with diversity awareness training, group facilitation, 
 community capacity building, and conflict facilitation. His organizational 
 consulting and training experience is with health, mental health, and 
 educational organizations in the US and abroad including with the 
 Highlander Research and Education Center, UN refugee health organizations 
 in the Middle East (UNRWA), New Energy in China and Independent Thought and 
 Social Action in India. His diversity awareness approach is based in the 
 Process Work of Arnold Mindell. Bill is a faculty member of the UC 
 Berkeley Extension School of Professional Communication. His website 
 is: www.billsay.com\n\nWednesdays October 16-November 20\nFee: $345, 
 partial scholarships available\nLocation: Berkeley Adult School, 1701 San 
 Pablo Ave., 
 Berkeley\nhttp://www.seedscrc.org/who-we-serve/individuals/training-for-individuals/\nQuestions? 
 Call Anne Hillsley 510-548-2377 or anne@seedscrc.org\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/24/18743730.php
SUMMARY:Diversity Awareness for Mediators,Conflict & Group Facilitators
LOCATION:Berkeley Adult School, 1701 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/24/18743730.php
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