Name: Mindful Resolutions: Mindful De-escalation and Negotiation
Start: 2025-02-11T09:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-11T15:30:00-06:00
Location: (TBA) OKC

Mindful Resolutions: Mindful De-escalation and Negotiation

This one-day training provides a framework for de-escalation, strategic information gathering, and relationship building.
About this Event

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TRAINING WILL BE IN PERSON AROUND THE OKC METRO AREA.

Utilizing Mindful Resolutions' S-R-C Method —participants will learn to identify implicit bias, address underlying needs, foster open dialogue, and build trust. By grounding your approach in mindfulness, you'll enhance your ability to de-escalate tense situations, negotiate solutions, and ultimately transform outcomes.

Whether you're managing conflicts or supporting youth in high-stress situations, this workshop offers the innovative tools and insights to create meaningful connections and promote positive change. Embrace the power of mindfulness to de-escalate, negotiate, and transform outcomes in your work with youth.

Continuing education units will be provided for CLE, CLEET, and VWC.

This event is sponsored by the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth. It is funded in full or partially through a grant from the Oklahoma Advisory Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect through the Children’s Justice Act program that is administered by Oklahoma Human Services. There is no tuition for students.

Zana Williams is an attorney, keynote speaker, and the founder and CEO of Mindful Resolutions.

Mindful Resolutions is an educational training platform that utilizes negotiation, mediation, and restorative justice practices to teach mindful communication, de-escalation, and life skills to at-risk, court-involved, and foster youth (ages 11-18) and adults who work with youth.

She has created and facilitated multiple successful youth pilot programs nationally and internationally.

Prior to becoming an attorney and founding Mindful Resolutions, Zana worked with foster and court-involved youth for over 15 years.

The US Embassy selected Zana as their keynote speaker and youth mentor in the Pledge for Parity in Lesotho, Africa. The Oklahoma Bar Association has recognized Zana for her role in co-facilitating a mentorship-based mock trial program for court-involved youth.