Managing Difficult Conversations

In this workshop, participants will learn three important components to having a difficult conversation. We will work on skills for each, and work with an actual conflict in each person's life. Bio: Elizabeth is a social worker at heart. She has always been interested in the intersection of social issues and the law. She attended Columbia University School of Social Work where she graduated with a MSW and a Minor in Law. She immediately went to work in the field of conflict resolution and has been practicing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) since 1997. Elizabeth is the Executive Director of Hidden Water, a restorative justice response to childhood sexual abuse, a non-profit she founded in 2014. Elizabeth is also the Founder and Principal Trainer at Planning Change, whose mission it is to educate and empower individuals to affect meaningful change in the conflicts around them. In addition to those endeavors, Elizabeth has been an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School since 2005. She works as a professional mediator and speaks regularly at events and conferences. She lives with her husband and three children in Brooklyn.