What Makes Us Different
Holistic Tailored Practices
Conflict impacts minds, bodies, emotions, and spirits. Under pressure we often make poor choices. People in conflict can be off-center, reactive, and checked out, so often they are not good problem solvers. We want to understand what you really need, why, and how things could be better for you and your group. Click here to learn more about our approach, Multidimensional Practice.
Here are some examples of the kind of work we do:
Our Work in Action - Multidimensional Practice
What does Multidimensional Practice (MM) look like in a city with more than 9 million people?
Supporting Violence Interruption work in New York City happened through a collaboration with community organizations over several years and continues.
Hear from Credible Messenger Keith Davis about how he experienced the work in NYC.
Consulting and Training for Faith Leaders
Faith leaders are often called to do spiritual work and then find themselves leading a complex small business with difficult community dynamics. Congregations are also struggling to preserve traditions while adapting to new challenges. This can lead to tears in the fabric of the community. Congregational consulting, mediation, and training can help repair and renew their communities and relationships. Workshop topics include Group Values Clarification and Visioning, Understanding People Who Challenge You, Bringing the Vision to Life - Consensus and Negotiation, and Building Community Together - Facilitation Skills for Faith Leaders.
Negotiation Training for Veterinarians
Vet practices are facing a tight labor market, and are having to compete to hire and keep skilled veterinarians. And this is just one of many challenges owners and practice managers have to navigate in order to be successful today. Collaborative negotiation training empowers practices to problem solve with key stakeholders, whether internally with other owners or staff, or externally with new hires, pet owners or potential corporate buyers, to create value in their most important relationships. Effective soft skills is key pillar of vet practice, especially negotiation. We negotiate all the time, whether we realize it or not (over schedules, coverage, practice policies and procedures, etc.), and we can get better at, in a way that creates win-win outcomes and strengthens relationships and practices in the process.
Understanding Violence as a Public Health Issue
City agencies are facing greater public safety and public health challenges. Traditional approaches are no longer effective, such as working in silos, top-down hierarchical decision making, and an inability to critically analyze the issues. Innovative cross-sector collaborations are the solution. They encourage cooperation, prioritize group wisdom, embrace a wholistic assessment and remedies.