Priscilla B. Dames
Professional Biography
Priscilla B. Dames is a nationally Certified Crisis Trainer, Conflict Resolution Practitioner, Educator, and Community Activist with over twenty years of rich and varied experience in South Florida. She taught students from the primary to the university level, beginning her career with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools System including experience as an Adjunct Instructor at Barry University.
Ms. Dames’ professional contributions go well beyond the classroom. Her ever-increasing expertise in facilitation, conflict resolution and multicultural education continues to guide her career. She was selected by the Anti-Defamation League to receive training as a Facilitator/ Consultant and was sent to racially tense situations throughout Florida on their behalf. The Mediation Training Institute International (MTI) certified her as a Trainer of Trainers in Managing Workplace Conflict and the Supreme Court of Florida has certified her in Court Mediation. More recently, she was a consultant for the University of Miami’s Teacher’s Institute on “Infusing African American History across the Curriculum.” Eventually, Ms. Dames became a Safe Schools Specialist. As a Safe Schools Specialist for the Miami-Dade County Public School System, she was responsibility for conflict prevention and intervention, crisis response and student, staff and community training on topics relative to conflict resolution, gang prevention, bullying and cultural diversity. She continues to make many public appearances and accepts numerous speaking engagements at businesses, churches and conferences on a local and national level.
Ms. Dames earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology and American History, with a Certification in Education, from Ball State University, and a Master of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Nova University. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Nova, as a logical extension of her lifelong commitment to an interest in human diversity. She began an Internship with the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolence. This affiliation started with a stint at the Conflict Center for Resolution in Kenya, Africa and was completed with a visit to The King Nonviolence Center in Havana, Cuba. She delivered presentations on “Conflict between Genders” and “Whose Music is it Anyway: the Conflict of Language” to faculty and staff at Eagerton, University, during her time in Kenya.
Her current quests and topics of interest include supporting women business owners as Chairperson of the Women’s Business Council, Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce and providing women empowerment workshops. Dames is also a member of the National and Florida Crisis Teams and was actively involved with victim assistance efforts following the spate of hurricanes that hit Florida in 2005 and the crisis in Haiti, 2010. She is a lead trainer of Kingian Nonviolence, certified by the Nonviolence Institute at the University of Rhode Island. One of her current projects is training ex-militants in the Nigerian Amnesty Program in Nigeria, Africa.
Ms. Dames is Founder and President of Wingspan Seminars, LLC, www.wingspanseminars.net, whose mission is based in conflict resolution and provides seminars focusing on improving organizational relationships as well as crisis preparation and response. Her first book, How to Survive When Your Ship is Sinking, was released at an International Women’s Empowerment Conference, Chicago, Illinois in August, 2012. She also hosts a blogtalk radio show, Conflict Corner, www.blogtalkradio.com/wingspan.
Professional Biography
Priscilla B. Dames is a nationally Certified Crisis Trainer, Conflict Resolution Practitioner, Educator, and Community Activist with over twenty years of rich and varied experience in South Florida. She taught students from the primary to the university level, beginning her career with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools System including experience as an Adjunct Instructor at Barry University.
Ms. Dames’ professional contributions go well beyond the classroom. Her ever-increasing expertise in facilitation, conflict resolution and multicultural education continues to guide her career. She was selected by the Anti-Defamation League to receive training as a Facilitator/ Consultant and was sent to racially tense situations throughout Florida on their behalf. The Mediation Training Institute International (MTI) certified her as a Trainer of Trainers in Managing Workplace Conflict and the Supreme Court of Florida has certified her in Court Mediation. More recently, she was a consultant for the University of Miami’s Teacher’s Institute on “Infusing African American History across the Curriculum.” Eventually, Ms. Dames became a Safe Schools Specialist. As a Safe Schools Specialist for the Miami-Dade County Public School System, she was responsibility for conflict prevention and intervention, crisis response and student, staff and community training on topics relative to conflict resolution, gang prevention, bullying and cultural diversity. She continues to make many public appearances and accepts numerous speaking engagements at businesses, churches and conferences on a local and national level.
Ms. Dames earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology and American History, with a Certification in Education, from Ball State University, and a Master of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Nova University. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Nova, as a logical extension of her lifelong commitment to an interest in human diversity. She began an Internship with the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolence. This affiliation started with a stint at the Conflict Center for Resolution in Kenya, Africa and was completed with a visit to The King Nonviolence Center in Havana, Cuba. She delivered presentations on “Conflict between Genders” and “Whose Music is it Anyway: the Conflict of Language” to faculty and staff at Eagerton, University, during her time in Kenya.
Her current quests and topics of interest include supporting women business owners as Chairperson of the Women’s Business Council, Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce and providing women empowerment workshops. Dames is also a member of the National and Florida Crisis Teams and was actively involved with victim assistance efforts following the spate of hurricanes that hit Florida in 2005 and the crisis in Haiti, 2010. She is a lead trainer of Kingian Nonviolence, certified by the Nonviolence Institute at the University of Rhode Island. One of her current projects is training ex-militants in the Nigerian Amnesty Program in Nigeria, Africa.
Ms. Dames is Founder and President of Wingspan Seminars, LLC, www.wingspanseminars.net, whose mission is based in conflict resolution and provides seminars focusing on improving organizational relationships as well as crisis preparation and response. Her first book, How to Survive When Your Ship is Sinking, was released at an International Women’s Empowerment Conference, Chicago, Illinois in August, 2012. She also hosts a blogtalk radio show, Conflict Corner, www.blogtalkradio.com/wingspan.