Thursday, June 16th
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun.
Mr. Yampolsky has encouraged you to support Feeding Southwest Virginia.
Our special guest this week, Henry Yampolsky, Mediator, Educator, Author and TEDx Speaker, will present on:
Inner Path for Conflict Transformation
We treat conflict as the fire - this force outside of us we try avoid, escape, and control. How would we approach conflict if instead we experienced conflict as the fire alarm - alerting us to and reflecting what is happening within us. In this presentation, Henry will introduce the four introspective, mindfulness-based principles of conflict transformation and will discuss their applications to mediation and other conflict resolution methodologies. Henry will also talk about what it takes to move from reacting to conflict with fear, avoidance or aggression to responding to conflict with strength, clarity, and ease.
Henry Yampolsky, J.D. is a mediator, educator, TEDx speaker and author of Dis-Solving Conflict from Within: an Inner Path for Conflict Transformation. Henry serves as the Assistant Director for Education, Outreach, and Conflict Resolution at Virginia Tech's Office for Equity and Accessibility and teaches Mediation, Conflict Resolution and Peace Building as part of Virginia Tech's Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention. Henry has worked with hundreds of complex conflicts and has taught and lectured around the world, including at: Columbia University School of Law, the New York Peace Institute, National Museum of American Jewish History, Bellevue Mediation in Zurich, Bharathiar University in Coimbatore, India, the International Gandhi Center in New Delhi, and at the Sattva Summit in Rishikesh, India. Prior to embarking on a career in peace building, Henry was a litigator in Philadelphia. He served as the associate and then a partner with one of the leading litigation boutique law firms. Henry has earned his Juris Doctorate at Temple University and also has a BS from the University of Scranton. Henry can be found on his motorcycle in the mountains of Southwest Virginia.