Different Voices, One Board: This program, designed to help individuals blend as a board, reviews differences in how individuals communicate, how conflicts within groups evolve, and communication patterns that lead to productive dialogue.

Understanding Public Conflicts: These programs reviews the nature, causes, and evolution of public conflicts that can develop over policies, funding decisions, and other issues, different approaches to public engagement, and approaches to productively resolving public conflicts when they arise.

Working with the Media: A Review of the Basics: These programs available, both in basic and advanced forms, help build the skills needed to work well with the media from responding to questions to drafting press releases to writing editorials or conducting interviews.  We can help you and your staff build the skills that you need.

Thinking in Questions: Questions are a key part of dialogue.  Learn how to identify what types of questions to ask to build productive dialogues and generate options for moving forward through difficult issues in a way that is productive and builds strong relationships.

Using Dialogue: What, Why, and How: These program segments look at what dialogue is and how it differs from discussion or debate, why dialogue helps kids learn or promotes effective team interactions, and how to put dialogue to use in your school or classroom. Key dialogue skills are also reviewed and taught.

Getting the Most Out of Technology in the Classroom: Want to use more technology in the classroom but aren't comfortable? This series of programs reviews the use of blogs, YouTube, and other technologies that can keep your students connected and motivated.

Using Technology to Communicate with Parents and Others: Hod do you extend your classroom community to include key partners like parents, community volunteers, and others who can support your work? This series of programs reviews the use of blogs, YouTube, and other technologies that can keep all of your partners connected and motivated.

Teaching & Using Conflict Resolution Skills in the Classroom

2 Hour or 1/2 Day Workshop: Learn and share strategies to help your students identify the source of conflict and age appropriate ways to avoid and resolve problems they encounter.

Work Style Preferences: Implications for Learning and Teaching

These interactive programs look at work style preferences, primarily in reference to the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)™. These work style preferences affect the ways in which individuals receive and process information, and thus how they communicate. In its simplest form, the HBDI™ is a research-based assessment tool that measures work style preferences. The underlying research and model for the HBDI™ provides a framework that has been used by many corporations—including Starbucks, General Electric, and IBM—to enhance teamwork, planning, and communications.

Workshop 1 (1/2 Day): This program will focus on identifying different types of work style preferences, understanding how those preferences affect both what people hear and what they say, and how to work more effectively with others.

Workshop 2 (1/2 Day): This program will focus on how to coach student teams as well as creating lesson plans that accommodate different kinds of learners.

These workshops may be combined for a full day program. Our programs can be customized to meet your school's needs.

These workshops will help you encourage and incorporate parent involvement within your schools. We offer workshops in 2 hour, 1/2 day, and full day blocks to meet your school's specific needs.

10 Things You Should Know About Parent Involvement

2 Hour Workshop: This program covers the basics of how parent involvement can become an effective resource for your school.

1/2 Day Workshop: This program addresses how parent engagement relates to student achievement, the forms of parent engagement that most affect achievement, and how to effectively engage parents. Also discussed in this program are topics such as how to draft an engagement policy that meets your school's specific needs.

Full Day Workshop: This program addresses how parent engagement relates to student achievement, the forms of parent engagement that most affect achievement, and how to effectively engage parents. Also discussed in this program are topics such as how to draft an engagement policy that meets your school's specific needs as well as how to engage the broader community in support of your students and school, and evaluating and fine-tuning your parent engagement policy.

Our programs can be customized to meet your school's needs.

Better Thinking, Better Results™

Whole Brain Thinking™ skills improve team interaction and performance, promote problem solving, encourage balanced decision-making and strengthen relationships.  Developed originally for business, the “Whole Brain Thinking™” model is backed by more than 25 years of data and provides a  framework that helps individuals, teams,  and organizations analytically review and improve communication patterns. Click here to learn more.

Hate Hurts: Building School Communities That Value Diversity and Work Well Together

Based on the research of Robert J. Sternberg, IBM professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University, this program provides an informative, inclusive, and respectful way of exploring the continuum of emotions and communication patterns associated with hate, discussing and addressing stereotypes, and developing new ways of interacting.

Getting the Most Out of Consensus Processes: 8 Modules Covering the Basics of Selecting, Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Public Consensus Processes

"Authoritative Communities": Using the DVD and research booklet, "Hardwired to Connect" from the Institute of American Values, this program examines and invites dialogue on what recent research reveals about how to build communities that support youth in becoming productive adults and strengthen intergenerational ties.

Dialogue 101: An Introduction to Basic Dialogue Skills

Facilitation 101: An Introduction to Basic Facilitation Skills

"Ask The Right Question": Putting the Right Question Project's "Question Formulation Technique" to Work for You.

Hate Hurts: Recognizing Hate and Minimizing Its Effects in the Community. This program, based on recent research, looks at many different forms and levels of hate and associated communication patterns, and at effective and low-cost ways citizens and communities can counteract the effects of hate.