Most of the problems and opportunities we encounter involve other people. Sometimes people disagree with us, sometimes they oppose us. Success is often all about shifting mindsets.

As educators, we are interested in the ultimate success of our students, and yet, ironically they often resist our efforts. This course will cover a wide range of techniques educators can use to motivate students to learn, and also techniques to coach students on constructive methods of conflict resolution, including techniques to motivate others and prepare them to collaborate for ultimate success.

We will develop an understanding of why the most common methods we use to influence others don’t really work, and will practice the techniques that do. The course covers how the mind makes sense of situations, alternative methods of problem solving, preparing to learn from results that might not be what we want, what happens when people disagree with us and what we can do, how to resolve conflicts and influence others, foundations of wellbeing, navigating the murky worlds of stress, trauma, cognitive bias, and collective illusions, applying Mindshifting to whole brain teaching.

This course covers habits of mind involved with

Listening
Exploration and curiosity
Empathy
Effective communication
Influence and persuasion
Conflict resolution
Individual and group goal setting
Changing antagonism to collaboration
Stress, Trauma, and ADHD

We can learn to be resourceful in a world with misinformation, divisiveness, competition, and adversity.

Contact the host of Mindshifting: Conflict and Collaboration (8 sessions starting Jan 2026)