Essential Problem Solving Skills

With the skills learned in the MMP Essential Problem Solving Skills ("EPSS") training workshop, participants will have enhanced abilities to:

• evaluate situations from differing but equally significant perspectives;

• identify and effectively express their goals based upon underlying needs, interests and values;

• use effective communication skills, including active listening and reframing;

• explore, identify and implement the use of available community resources in addressing issues of conflict;

• apply inherent regional and cultural negotiation skills/styles in ways that support collaborative and effective communication of interests;

• identify and evaluate potential outcomes as tools for critical decision-making.

Our first EPSS workshop was held on February 26, 27 and 28, 2007, in Moss Point, Mississippi, led by trainers, Deborah A. Thomas and William P. D'Angelo, III, both of Los Angeles. 

On May 2 and 3, 2007, our second EPSS workshop was held at the Jefferson Davis Campus of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, in Gulfport, Mississippi, led by trainers Richard Dodson of St. Paul, MN and Jim Forkner of San Francisco, CA. 

In order to ensure the best possible experience, future training sessions will be limited to a maximum of 15-20 participants, depending on location. 

Our  next EPSS sessions are now being scheduled for late September (tentatively located in East Biloxi)  and November, dates and locations to be announced.  We are accepting nominations and applications for participation in these future workshops.  Please complete the Nomination or Application form and return it to us via email. 

Fees: The cost of this workshop is $320 per person.  Scholarships are available, for all or part of this fee, for any qualified applicant with financial need who cannot arrange to have this fee underwritten by a community organization or an employer. 

Qualifications:  All scholarship applicants must live in, or be displaced residents of Hancock, Harrison or Jackson Counties, Mississippi.

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