Conflict Connections

03/15/2024

Noam Ebner is in the house. . Looking forward to his session on Aggressive Negotiations and Diplomatic Solutions: Star Wars and Conflict Resolution.

07/29/2020

Today I earned my Certified Virtual Facilitator ™ (CVF ™) credential through the International Institute for Facilitation (INIFAC). I now join a growing group of facilitating professionals who have demonstrated the skills, knowledge, and understanding to facilitate virtual meetings. The CVF ™was created based on a set of researched international facilitation competencies.

To become a CVF ™, I met the requirements in six facilitation competency areas:

Presence
Assessment
Communication
Control
Consistency
Evaluation

I am proud to say that I am a CVF ™, a Certified Virtual Facilitator ™, and have proven my knowledge of facilitate virtual meetings against an impressive set of standards.

01/15/2020

Kicking off 2020 with teaching Emotional Intelligence to leaders in Houston and San Antonio.

12/10/2019

Today is Day 1 of MBTI personality type indicator training. I am getting certified as a practitioner to use with teams and coaching clients.

11/19/2019

First day of facilitation class and needed to be an agile facilitator since we lost our room. Class is on the stage. Great participants!

07/03/2019

Celebrating with grad students two full weekends of Facilitation:Group Dynamics and Participatory Decision Making

06/10/2019

Verbal Self-Defense Begins with a Mindset of Compassion and Empathy.

In my last blog post, Changing the Way We Handle Verbal Attacks, I shared that I began a journey in learning Verbal Aikido. What does it mean to learn the art of verbal self-defense? First, it means understanding the purpose and establishing a mindset behind this approach. Morihei Ueshiba (pronounce...

05/17/2019

David Diehl and his team at Houston Community College Systems (HCCS) created a wonderful experience for their faculty honoring them for their innovations in instructional and design in learning. Honored to be their keynote and so fabulously taken care of and recognized. Thank you everyone!

05/16/2019

Tomorrow is a big day and an exciting and fun event for HCCS at their 7th Annual IIED's Faculty Awards and Student Engagement. I get to be there as their keynote speaker on Stop the Drama:Prepare Yourself Before You Erupt. They have done a phenomenal job of coordination, planning, decorating and juggling.

05/08/2019

I really enjoy the Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner. Exemplary leaders model, inspire, challenge, enable, and encourage.

04/24/2019

A day of writing, training design and practicing an upcoming speech on communication styles.

04/21/2019

I was blessed to be part of Meg Fitzgerald Rentschler, STaR Coaches podcast program talking about and working with leaders build . Listen now!

https://www.starcoachshow.com/130-patricia-porter-conflict-management-and-resolution/