Everything is Negotiation// Negotiation is Everything with Beth Fisher-Yoshida

Join the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution as we welcome Beth Fisher-Yoshida for a webinar titled, Everything is Negotiation// Negotiation is Everything: Building Self-Awareness, Creating Relationships, and Storying Conflict, on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 11:30 am Eastern US Time (UTC-5). In this 90-minute interactive webinar, Beth will share insights that have emerged from her years of experience researching, teaching, and consulting around negotiation, communication, and conflict resolution.

Everything is Negotiation. All communication is a form of negotiation- requiring us to coordinate across different perspectives, experiences, and stories to create shared meaning together. How do we equip ourselves to navigate the negotiation of everyday communication effectively?

Negotiation is Everything. The skills required to achieve a successful negotiation are applicable beyond the confines of formal negotiations.  How do we apply negotiation approaches to improve all areas of our lives?

Participants will be invited to explore tools like the Daisy Model to better understand and act into negotiations in both their personal and professional lives. With an emphasis on re-storying negotiations as creating relationships, Beth will share tools, skills, and language that enable participants to develop a greater sense of self-awareness in their communicating.

We hope to see you there!

This webinar is the fourth installment in our ‘Communication Creates’ Series, where we explore theoretical and practical applications of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), with a particular emphasis on using a ‘communication perspective’ to make sense of what we are making together in our communication and how we can act more mindfully in our relating to co-create better social worlds together.

For free access to all 2026 monthly webinars and event recordings, you can become an Associate of the CMM Institute for $100/ year here: https://cmminstitute.org/join-us/

For more information on CMM, check out our Resource Hub here: https://cmminstitute.substack.com/.

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Dr. Beth Fisher-Yoshida, is a facilitator, educator, executive coach, author, and speaker, who partners with clients to develop initiatives to strengthen their core negotiation and communication skills and effectiveness to resolve conflicts. As President and CEO of Fisher Yoshida International, a consulting firm, her clients have included global organizations across industries in the Fortune 100, private sector, United Nations, nonprofit and government sectors, military and security forces, communities, school districts, and academic institutions. Fisher- Yoshida is Professor of Professional Practice and Inaugural Program Director of the Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program at SPS, Executive Director of the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4/Climate School), Director of the Youth, Peace and Society Project and Women, Peace, and Leadership Project at the Earth Institute/Climate School, all at Columbia University. She has published many articles, chapters, and has authored and edited books. Her newest books include: New Story, New Power: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiation, published January 2023; which is also translated into Spanish, El Poder de Tu Historia; and she co-authored Peacebuilding in Colombia: From the Lens of Community and Policy, with Joan C. Lopez, published in August 2023. Her research and practice areas are women and negotiation, organizational conflict, and youth leadership.

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Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Time: 11:30 am Eastern US Time (UTC-5)

Location: Zoom (link provided upon registration)


Cost: $20 (Professional)/ $10 (Student)*

*We want everyone who is interested to be able to participate this event. If the cost presents a barrier to attending for you, please do not hesitate to contact abbievanmeter@gmail.com.