Priscilla Dames
M.S.
FL, USPriscilla 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 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. Ms. Dames realized her dream when invited to train ex-militants in the Nigerian Amnesty Program in Nigeria, Africa in Kingian Transformational Nonviolence.
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 hosted a television show, Conflict Corner TV. Its mission is to address problems families and youth face in their daily lives. We educate then provide prevention and intervention strategies for problem-solving. Her latest book, 99 Conflicts to Avoid and 100 Ways to Resolve Them to be released in 2016.
Awards and Affiliations
2011 50 Most Powerful in South Florida, Miami Herald's Legacy Magazine
Miami-Dade County Black Affairs Advisory Board, Chairperson
Community Relations Board, Member
Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce's Women's Business Council, Chairperson
Biscayne Park Foundation, Member
Coordinated Victim's Resource Center (CVAC), Partner
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Partner
Families in Distress, Partner
Top Hat Women in Business Award
International Business Leadership Award Recognition, Greater Miami-Dade County Chamber of Commerce
Ringling Brothers Drum Majors for Community Peace Award
Women of IMPACT Award, Women's History Coalition of Miami-Dade County, March 4, 2012
Proclamation by Mayor Carlos Gimenez and County Commissioners, March 4, 2012 Priscilla Dames Day
In the Company of Women, Miami-Dade County Commission for Women, March, 2013
Wingspan Seminars, Small Business of the Year Award, 2014, Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce
Women of the New Tribe, A photographic display of female leaders, Miami-Dade County Government Center, March, 2016
Ball State University Alumni Award, Muncie, Indiana, August, 2016
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 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. Ms. Dames realized her dream when invited to train ex-militants in the Nigerian Amnesty Program in Nigeria, Africa in Kingian Transformational Nonviolence.
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 hosted a television show, Conflict Corner TV. Its mission is to address problems families and youth face in their daily lives. We educate then provide prevention and intervention strategies for problem-solving. Her latest book, 99 Conflicts to Avoid and 100 Ways to Resolve Them to be released in 2016.
Awards and Affiliations
2011 50 Most Powerful in South Florida, Miami Herald's Legacy Magazine
Miami-Dade County Black Affairs Advisory Board, Chairperson
Community Relations Board, Member
Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce's Women's Business Council, Chairperson
Biscayne Park Foundation, Member
Coordinated Victim's Resource Center (CVAC), Partner
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Partner
Families in Distress, Partner
Top Hat Women in Business Award
International Business Leadership Award Recognition, Greater Miami-Dade County Chamber of Commerce
Ringling Brothers Drum Majors for Community Peace Award
Women of IMPACT Award, Women's History Coalition of Miami-Dade County, March 4, 2012
Proclamation by Mayor Carlos Gimenez and County Commissioners, March 4, 2012 Priscilla Dames Day
In the Company of Women, Miami-Dade County Commission for Women, March, 2013
Wingspan Seminars, Small Business of the Year Award, 2014, Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce
Women of the New Tribe, A photographic display of female leaders, Miami-Dade County Government Center, March, 2016
Ball State University Alumni Award, Muncie, Indiana, August, 2016
Transforming Conflict Into Your Wins
The impact of conflict in the workplace to colleagues, clients and business can lead to devastation. In can undermine the progress in a business or the cost can be the loss of a family member; a traumatic loss to all involved.
This presentation will:
Look at results of unresolved conflict in the workplace
Explore the dynamics of inner personal conflict
Reframe conflict to lead to a more productive life
Discuss managing through empathy, communication and...
Surviving Through Life's Challenges
Surviving Through Life's Valleys-Priscilla Dames, author of How to Survive When Your Ship is Sinking, gives listeners direction and antidotes to help equip them through life storms. She reminds us that we can still reach our dream mission even through turbulence. The audience will:
Learn to define their dream mission
Understand how to select a support team
The power of reaching back to pull someone up
What Happened to My Dreams?
What Happened to My Dreams?
After looking at accounts of how adults have worked for years, taking care of their families, often feeling strapped with responsibilities, we realize that our dreams have gotten lost in the shuffle...almost.
The audience will explore:
Getting back on track with dreams deferred
Creating a support system
Riding your own train
