Most of the problems and opportunities we encounter involve other people.  Sometimes people disagree with us, sometimes they oppose us. Success is often all about shifting mindsets. 

As educators, we are interested in the ultimate success of our students, and yet, ironically they often resist our efforts. This course will cover a wide range of techniques educators can use to motivate students to learn, and also techniques to coach students on constructive methods of conflict resolution, including techniques to motivate others and prepare them to collaborate for ultimate success.

• How we act when we are all resourceful vs stressed 

• What do our brains do when we disagree?

• How to maintain calm and composed during disagreements 

• Why our normal methods of coping with disagreement don't work 

• Responding to disagreement with empathy and rapport 

• Methods of conflict resolution 

• Differences between compromise and collaborate 

• Constructive and destructive conflict 

• How to talk with someone who is difficult and recalcitrant to move to collaboration 

• Effects of stress and wellbeing on learning, decision-making, and actions 

• Helping others overcome stress 

• Overcoming the negative influences of group and peer pressure 

• How to articulate requests and suggestions

• Applying Mindshifting to teaching and instruction

We will develop an understanding of why the most common methods we use to influence others don’t really work, and will practice the techniques that do. The course covers how the mind makes sense of situations, alternative methods of problem solving, preparing to learn from results that might not be what we want, what happens when people disagree with us and what we can do, how to resolve conflicts and influence others, foundations of wellbeing, navigating the murky worlds of stress, trauma, cognitive bias, and collective illusions, applying Mindshifting to whole brain teaching.

This course covers habits of mind involved with

• Listening

• Exploration and curiosity

• Empathy

• Effective communication

• Influence and persuasion

• Conflict resolution

• Individual and group goal setting

• Changing antagonism to collaboration

• Stress, Trauma, and ADHD

We can learn to be resourceful, and we can teach children to be resourceful, in a world with misinformation, divisiveness, competition, and adversity. 

The course consists of 8 two-hour live sessions (16 hours of seat time), plus there are practice and reflection exercises after each session (7 hours of practice over the course of three weeks), and each person will create a lesson or lesson plan (3 hours to create the lesson) for a total of 26 hours.

Each live session will be archived, so if a person misses a session, they can still watch the video archive. Although they will miss out on the interactive portions of the session, they will still receive credit for having attended the session.

All classes start at 4:00 - 6:00 PM Pacific Time

Tuesday Jan 13

Thursday Jan 15

Tuesday Jan 20

Thursday Jan 22

Tuesday Jan 27

Thursday Jan 29

Tuesday Feb 3

Tuesday Feb 10

If you have any questions, you can email the instructor at mitch.weisburgh@gmail.com.