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CONFLICT AND CREATIVITY: Responding to Challenging Behavior in the Workplace
May 22, 2008.
Vermont Technical College
Randolph, Vermont
Morey Lounge Conference Room
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Dale Hindmarsh, Workshop Leader

This training is for any employment specialist who provides work supports to persons with disabilities. Participants will engage an interactive learning process that explores the framework of positive behavioral support as it applies to our experiences in the typical workplace. Participants are encouraged to bring examples and case scenarios from their own experiences with issues of conflict and challenge in the workplace. These case experiences will be discussed in light of the principles of building trust in the work environment, which will be presented by the workshop leader. The goal is to shape tools and learnings to the actual dynamics we experience in our own workplaces. The "take home" value of this training will be enhanced by sending agency teams of at least two participants, but individual registrations are also accepted.

Registration fee for this workshop is $40.00 per person, $70.00 for an agency team of two persons.

Topics will include:

Changing Habits -- ours and others,
Principles for Creative Communication in Conflict,
Consent, Collaboration and Change,
Building Trust in the Workplace Culture,
"Road Map" for Creative Change,
Positive Behavioral Support and Mutual Transformation.

For information: Phone: 802-656-1345 Fax: 802-656-1357 Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

To register: Send in registration and check by May 15, 2008. If special accommodations are needed please respond by May 5, 2008. Send to:

Dale Hindmarsh
University of Vermont-Center on Disability and Community Inclusion
208 Colchester Ave, Mann Hall, 3rd Floor
Burlington, VT 05405

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CONFLICT AND CREATIVITY: Responding to Challenging Behavior in the Workplace

Please return with check made payable to: University of Vermont; $40.00 per person, $70.00 for a team of two persons.

Special accommodations needed: _________________________________

Name(s):____________________________________________________

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Agency or School: ___________________________________________

Address: ________________________________ Phone: ____________

Email address: ______________________________________________

Sponsored by:
University of Vermont's Center on Disability & Community Inclusion,
Vermont-APSE, Vermont's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and
Division of Disability & Aging Services