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Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center: February Events

Workshops
“Negotiation Skills for Women”, “Challenging Conversations: How to Share Your Concerns so People Will Hear You”, and “Addressing Annoying Behaviors: Tools Mediators Use…And You Can, Too!”
with Elizabeth Kent
Elizabeth Kent Flyer

(Pre-registration required)
Group discounts & partial scholarships available
Hawai’i Innovation Center at Hilo (HICH)
117 Keawe Street, Hilo, HI 96720  
We negotiate constantly–with our spouses, partners, bosses, children, peers, and others.  Do you want to develop the skills you need to negotiate successfully and narrow the gender gap?  Join us to participate in simulated negotiations, plus learn the stages and components of negotiation, including offers, counter-offers, and modes of communication.

Elizabeth Kent, J.D., has helped people and institutions find solutions to sticky problems for over 25 years.  She has clerked at two federal courts of appeals,  practiced commercial law, served as the Deputy Director at the Hawai’i State Department of Human Services, taught at University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and directed the Hawai’i State Judiciary’s Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution.  A trained facilitator and mediator, Elizabeth teaches graduate classes in conflict system design and negotiation at UH-Manoa and a variety of conflict resolution skills classes around the state.  She has received the Hawaii Women Lawyers’ Distinguished Service Award and the Church of the Crossroads’ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Peacemaker Award.

To register, contact Jenifer at 935-7844 x 1 or jenifer@hawaiimediation.org.

Free Brown Bag Lunch Talk
“The Conversation: Why is it So Difficult to Talk about Death and Dying”
 
with Cathy Hough
Brown Bag Lunch Series - Flyer 2.16.17

Thursday, February 16, 2017

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Free (walk-ins welcome)

Office of the Prosecuting Attorney
655 Kilauea Avenue, Hilo, HI 96720

Cathy advocates facing death as a natural part of life rather than being fearful or in avoidance of it.  “Preparing oneself and one’s loved ones for the inevitability of death frees people to live life mindfully, gratefully, and to the fullest extent,” says Cathy.  Explore the reasons facing death has changed in our society, what people fear most, and ways to approach the topic of death and dying in a healthy and proactive manner.

Cathy Hough is the Community Bereavement Counselor for Hospice of Hilo and the Senior Minister at the Center for Spiritual Living in Kea’au.  Prior to her ordination as a minister and certification for bereavement counseling, Cathy spent thirty years as an early childhood educator, serving in the roles of teacher, program administrator, and national training consultant.