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Relationship conflicts and community disputes drain resources and trigger disappointment and depression. Our coaching and workshop solutions create healthy and open dialogue, empowering clients to maintain friendships, lessen sibling rivalry, ease parenting woes, and bring a sense of life satisfaction.
Boards of directors, church and temple leaders, parent-teacher associations, and residence-life staff in colleges all volunteer their time and resources to help their communities reach greater heights. Unfortunately, their effectiveness is compromised when there is infighting or a lack of adequate management skills. Our services include workshops and coaching that can help these volunteer positions achieve their goals and lead their communities optimally. We help them address conflicts in early stages, coach them on inter-active listening skills, and guide groups and teams to greater mutual respect and understanding.
Temples and Churches have always played key roles in maintaining community services and offering hope, joy, and peace to their congregations. In order to best serve their members, religious leaders should be skilled at empathic listening and conflict management. From tending to marital problems to unemployment to health challenges, the myriad community issues can all benefit from leadership that is trained to handle a range of conflicts, large and small. Book Now!
Schools work best when conflicts between the parents and schools are addressed early-on. Parents and teachers can come together to learn negotiation skills that will help them focus on the common goal: the children’s education. Harmony Strategies offers a range of workshops and retreats that will help bring parents and teachers together and guide them to better communication and ways to handle the many issues that arise during the school year. Book Now!
Non-profits serve an important purpose in American life, today. Varied interest groups develop organizations to voice their needs, help them face challenges, and bring together individuals to support each other in time of need. Those leaders who volunteer their time to run the non-profit events and day to day affairs face numerous challenges to get their job done. We offer workshops, retreats, and leadership coaching to those lay leaders who can benefit from better negotiation skills, and diversity and inclusion training. Likewise, we consult non-profits that are facing internal fighting and help teams and individuals that aren’t getting along and compromising the integrity of the organization. Book Now!
Family dynamics are often the most charged and emotionally-driven of all relationships. Harmony Strategies offers a variety of services to address these intense dynamics and empower individuals to find the outcomes that work best for them. From divorcing couples to parenting workshops, we help create a smoother transition during times growth, change, and challenges.
Harmony Strategies Group consultants helped us figure out where communication was breaking down, and how to improve our dynamics so that we could be better parents and leaders in our community.
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Kimberly Jackson Davidson is currently the University Ombudsperson at George Mason University and member of the Harmony Strategies Group. She spent two decades at Oberlin College in Ohio, holding positions in the Office of the Dean of Students and as Visiting Lecturer in African American Studies. During her final five and a half years there, she served all campus constituencies as Ombudsperson and Director of the Yeworkwha Belachew Center for Dialogue (YBCD). Davidson is active within the International Ombuds Association (IOA), the California Caucus of College and University Ombuds (CCCUO), and the Ombuds Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). She earned a B.A. in English Literature from Spelman College in 1986 and an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in African Literature in 1991.
Hector Escalante is an experienced Ombuds and learning and development professional with over seven years of ombuds experience and over twenty years of experience developing and teaching course offerings which promote inclusion, healthy communication, and conflict resolution. He is the Director of the Ombuds Office at the University of California, Merced, having served many years as the organizational ombuds at the University of the Pacific. He is an ombuds partner with Harmony Strategies Group, and a consulting ombuds for Earthjustice and Union of Concerned Scientists. Hector holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate in education. He is a United States Marine Corps veteran, a husband and father to four children. Hector’s passions include treating all with fairness, equity, dignity, and compassion and good food.Â
Kira Nurieli is the CEO of the Harmony Strategies Group and is an expert mediator, conflict coach, trainer/facilitator, consultant, and restorative practices facilitator. She has spent upwards of twenty years helping clients handle conflict and improve communication strategies and has presented at numerous conferences and symposia as a subject matter expert. She holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Performance from Barnard College. She especially enjoys helping individuals, teams, and lay-leaders become more impactful and empowered in their work and is honored to work alongside her esteemed colleagues with the Harmony Strategies Group.
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