Video: Julie Mitchell from Kuʻikahi Mediation Center gives public talk at UH Hilo on conflict resolution
The talk, “Conflict Prevention and Resolution,” is part of UH Hilo’s Kuleana and Community Weekly Talk Story gatherings happening this semester.
By Staff/UH Hilo Stories.
Julie Mitchell, executive director at Kuʻikahi Mediation Center, gave a public talk Nov. 8 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo focusing on how to engage more constructively during disagreements.
The talk, “Conflict Prevention and Resolution,” is part of a series of weekly gatherings held this semester at UH Hilo where students, faculty, staff, university retirees, and members of the local community get together in a safe and welcoming environment to share their thoughts around a common topic.
The goal of the series, named Kuleana and Community Weekly Talk Story: Building Community Through Conversation, is to strengthen the university’s connections to the local community through conversation. Topics cover Maunakea stewardship, mental health, better communication, houselessness in Hawaiʻi, entrepreneurship, and more. Following a short talk by a featured guest, attendees break out into discussion groups and then share their manaʻo (thoughts) with everyone.
Kuʻikahi Mediation Center, located in Hilo, is a non-profit with the mission to empower people to come together to talk and to listen, to explore options, and to find their own best solutions. The center offers mediation, facilitation, and training that can strengthen the ability of diverse individuals and groups to resolve interpersonal conflicts and community issues. In the talk-story event, Mitchell explored why conflict usually feels so “icky” and how people can engage more constructively when having disagreements with others.
The talk was held at the Kilohana Student Success Center located in Edwin Mookini Library, UH Hilo.
The Kuleana and Community series is sponsored by the UH Hilo Office of the Chancellor, Kīpuka Native Hawaiian Student Center, Kilohana Academic Success Center, Center for Global Education and Exchange, and Assistant Professor of Communication Colby Miyose and Associate Professor of Sociology Alton Okinaka.
