Communication and Conflict: Skills to Build Positive Relationships and Improve Your Interactions With Your Graduate Students

• Please sign into the workshop a few minutes early, as the the workshop is a full 2 hours and will begin promptly at 10:00am.
• Please have your chat open and ready to use throughout the workshop
• Having video on is strongly recommended and preferred by the presenter
• The presenter will provide a copy of the slides and an accompanying article to anyone who requests it within 30 minutes of the end of the workshop by emailing lori.mac@umanitoba.ca.

This workshop will focus on research derived strategies for maintaining and enhancing relationships that are practical and effective. For example, come and find out what research has shown can predict the stability and satisfaction of your relationships with others with over 90% accuracy. In this workshop you’ll learn specific strategies and skills to communicate and address conflict in a way that may be easier for others to hear without compromising the integrity of your message. You’ll also learn about conflict styles, nonverbal communication, and gain skills to address behaviours that get in the way of connecting and communicating, including the four behaviours that have been empirically shown to be most damaging to communicating and building positive relationships.

Workshop Presenter:  Dr. Lori Mac is a registered Counselling Psychologist who has been with the University of Manitoba Student Counselling Centre since 2008. She is a generalist, but works in the areas of interpersonal relationships (building healthy relationships, interpersonal difficulties, break-ups), communication and conflict, and trauma (sexual violence, interpersonal violence, abuse) as particular areas of interest. In addition to providing personal, career, group, and couples counselling, she is also the Coordinator for the Advanced Practicum in Counselling, and the Assistant Director of Training and one of the primary supervisors for the Predoctoral Internship Program in Professional Psychology.