Overview:
Through highly interactive simulations, group and individual exercises, role-playing, case studies, mini-lectures and dramatic presentations, Kelli's custom-designed workshops guide participants through a discovery of self and culture, stimulating self-respect and respect of others while bringing about a greater understanding of difference and what role that difference plays in daily communication.
Workshops can include the following:
  • Self exploration and self knowledge
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  • Communicating Effectively
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  • Defining Terminology
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  • Respect
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  • Assumptions and Stereotypes
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  • Conflict Mediation/Resolution
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  • Visioning and Action Planning
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    Participants of workshops will:
  		•  Be made aware that a mixture of national, organizational, and individual cultural values influence personal behaviors and attitudes.
  		• Understand and appreciate the different ways in which people prefer to communicate.
  		• Build trust and comfort within the group to allow candid discussion of taboo topics and issues.
  		• Learn that mutual respect is at the heart of effective communication and begin to internalize this concept so that it will be reflected in daily contact with others.
  		• Plan how to communicate more effectively with others in the future.
    Dramatic Presentations:
    The dramatic/narrative pieces are written or compiled and performed by Kelli McLoud-Schingen. After each performance, Kelli will lead a question and answer session taking care to provide participants with a safe space to begin an open and honest dialogue on human relations. These presentations are 90-minutes to 2 hours in length (one hour of performance and one half hour of question and answer is typical), however, time restraints can be accommodated.
    *Anything But Black - A unique journey into the life of an African American woman and the messages she received about blackness.
    *Oppression Monologues - A dramatic reading of poems and short stories written by women of color on the topic of racism.
    *A Letter to a Friend - An intimate message to a friend from a survivor of domestic abuse.