Date
Thursday, April 13, 2017
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast & Networking at 8:00, Presentation at 8:30
Location
Ecotrust
2rd Floor Conference Room
721 NW 9th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
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Cost
FREE to Member Pass Holders*
$25 NAO Members**
$50 Nonmembers
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Event Details
Presenter
Alaí Reyes-Santos, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Director, Community Consulting, Board Member, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation
Many of us struggle with conflict across cultural differences in our interpersonal relationships and within our organizations. Common-sense approaches to resolving conflict often fail because the person(s) with whom we have conflict does not share the same beliefs and expectations about how conflict is best handled. Despite our best intentions, we may find ourselves stuck and confused and inadvertently make the conflict worse. Each attempt to fix the problem “digs the hole deeper.” We may walk away with impaired capacity to communicate and work together.
Join a discussion about how to resolve conflict creatively in multicultural workplaces. We will share useful tools to address your organizational challenges around questions such as:
- How do we incorporate ideals of equity and inclusion in conflict resolution processes?
- How do we listen to each other and build on our differences to produce better outcomes?
- How do we avoid sustaining exclusionary or biased institutional practices?
- How can the creativity of a workplace achieve its full potential by engaging its multicultural reality?
About the Presenter
Alaí Reyes-Santos is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. She completed her bachelor's degree in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez and her doctoral degree in Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Reyes-Santos is also an award-winning educator, and a nationally and internationally recognized scholar in the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Reyes-Santos is a consultant and workshop facilitator for educational institutions and non-profits on issues of equity and inclusion; she directs a Eugene-based consulting firm, Community Consulting: Resources, Facilitators, Collaborators.
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