Region 10 Coordinating Council Presentation: Tier l - Engaging Challenging Conversations
Description
<span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">This Tier l core course, Engaging Challenging Conversations is foundational to our Multi-Tiered System of Support for Conflict, MTSSCE. It is a stand-alone course designed for increasing a partcipant's individual capacity for engaging conflict. In this seminar we:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">explore the work of key thinkers and leaders in the field</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">introduce foundational concepts, processes, and skills at the heart of effective conflict engagement</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">explore and practice a fundamental framework and set of skills and strategies for effectively engaging interpersonal conflict</span></li>
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<div><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Agenda:</span><br /><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Session 1: August 31, 2021</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Identify key concepts critical to understanding interpersonal conflict</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Explore and understand your personal relationship to conflict and conflict style</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Identify elements of an effective conversational structure for dealing with difficult issues</span></li>
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<div><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Session 2: September 1, 2021</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Introduce multiple "lenses" for analyzing critical conversations and intentionally increasing persoanl effectiveness</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Recognizing the ""Three Conversations"</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">An Interest-Based Approach</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Understanding our "Stories"</span></li>
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<div><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Session 3: September 7, 2021</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Strategies and structure for preparing to initiate a challenging conversation (Psychological, Substantive, Procedural)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Strategiws and structures for convening a challenging conversation- joint identification of the issues, clarification of expectations</span></li>
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<div><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Session 4: September 8, 2021</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Joint exploration leading to shared understanding of the issue(s)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Practice interpersonal skills essential for communicating effectively about crucial issues:</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Increasing self-awareness</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Strategies for self-management</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Active Listening</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Effectively sharing your perspective</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Intentional Inquiry</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Structure for bringing closure to challenging conversations</span></li>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">It also serves as a prerequisite and introducation to key concepts, processes and skills that will be built upon in all subsequent Tier ll</span> courses.</strong></div>
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Category
Project
East Valley Special Education Local Plan Area
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