Trainings and retreats can be a breath of fresh air, offering new skills and a revitalized interest in work for a department or whole organization. Workshops and trainings are also a key way to: assess and build on new skills, enabling all professionals to bring an added depth to their work.

Need better communication in your business or workplace? Want to become a mediator or facilitator? I offer workshops and trainings for groups of any size. Everyone needs to brush up on their skills! I offer a complete range of customized trainings for:

• Management, Human Resource professionals, and others who want to increase skills to be more effective in the workforce;
• Anyone interested in honing their communication skills;
• Employees, board members, business partners, and creative collaborators who want to bring greater clarity to their shared endeavors. I can create staff and/or board retreats that assist groups in: articulating their communication and conflict styles and co-creating agreements to work in a more unified and effective way.
• I can also bring a blending of facilitation and mediation to iron out any difficulties that groups are experiencing.

Some of the trainings that I have created and/or offered include:

• Facilitating with Finesse, a basic facilitation training co-created with Kathleen Oweegon. This is a three-day training, covering all the basics of facilitation. Participants leave the training with all the skills and practice necessary to facilitate basic meetings. Participants also receive a certificate, a manual co-authored by myself and Kathleen Oweegon, and the promise of life-long mentorship.
• Advanced Mediation and Facilitation Training , a three-day advanced mediation and facilitation workshop co-created with David River. This training focuses on how to handle anger and work with difficult behaviors. Foundational assumptions about mediation are also challenged to stretch individuals, moving them out of their comfort zone to achieve a greater level of awareness and confidence in their mediation skills. Participants leave with a renewed interest in mediation and facilitation, as well as a comprehensive manual co-authored by myself and David River.

I also co-created a module for the Governor’s Career Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and co-taught the HD153 Mediation Course with Marcy Litzenberg at the Santa Fe Community College.

How I’ve Been Shaped as a Trainer:

Of all the self-help books I’ve read, and workshops I’ve taken, I have found the Avatar® materials to be the most effective at empowering individuals to connect with their essential self, or place of inner wisdom, so that they can consistently operate more effectively in their lives.

Avatar® works synergistically with all spiritual and religious paths, enhancing your current practice. There is plenty for the intellect to play with in Avatar®. And there is much, much more to life than the mind. Put simply, you can read about inner peace—and you can experience/feel inner peace. You can know in your mind that you should let go of something—and you can experience actually being free of it. Avatar® offers simple, easy to use tools that enable you to move from the “intellectual knowing” to the “deeper experiencing.”

If I had to name the single most important training that I have received as a mediator and facilitator, it would be Avatar®. I am a trained and licensed Avatar Master and Wizard, and spent four years delivering the Avatar Course almost full-time. While I am no longer delivering it full-time, I would be thrilled to speak with you about Avatar®.

Note:
The Avatar® course was created by Harry Palmer, and are independent of any offerings by FireOwl Consulting Services. Avatar® is a registered trademark of Star’s Edge International. All rights reserved.

“Elizabeth was an excellent teacher who was able to connect easily with the diverse student population here at the college. Additionally, she was a collaborative member of the teaching team, always ready to learn
and share.”

Fran Tenorio
Leadership Coordinator