Dr. Goldberg has been training, teaching, and practicing conflict resolution for over 20 years. With her colleague Dr. Blancke, she pioneered Wisdom Resolution, and they are the premier practitioners of it. She has worked with groups from many faith orientations, from Christian, to Jewish, to Native American, to Quaker, to Hindu, working on issues from interfaith understanding and cooperation, to vision/mission and strategic planning, to positive change management, to group visioning and problem solving, to organizational development, to dialogue, to future search conferences, to interpersonal mediation.
She has a lifelong committment to deep, spiritual communication, helping others to connect to and hear their deepest, highest selves and work, individually, or in groups, from that place. She has a PhD in Conflict Resolution as well as over 20 years consulting experience in mediation, facilitation, process design, and group processes. Her combination of abilities leads to opportunities for extraordinary, transformative work. Her goal is to help groups and individuals change in ways that transform, as well as strengthen and heal, building resiliance and peace.
She was originally trained as a mediator at Oberlin College in 1983, and her work and training background include: individual, organizational and multi-party interventions; and work around controversial issues like pro-life/pro-choice activism, police accountability, and Native American land claim conflict. She is a long time specialist and trainer in cross-cultural and diversity work, particularly at the group and community level. Her research includes work on incipient and active gang related activities, how worldview and mediator values shape their work, and she is the co-creator of Wisdom Mediation, which combines emotional, somatic, and spiritual practices with classic conflict resolution practice.
