About smartSPARK
- T.H.I.N.K.
- Active Listening
- Knowing Your Triggers
- Understanding Consequences
- Holistic Goals of Relating
- True Dialogue
- Everyone is born with a spark in their heart that cannot be ignited alone.
- Conflict Transformation requires self discipline and intentional personal development.
- The only person’s attitude you can control is your own.
- True leaders “T.H.I.N.K.” before they speak.
- True leaders must master their own attitudes before successfully guiding others.
- Conflict transformation requires an influential attitude, enlightened perspective, creative problem solving, and dialogue to ensure the restoration of relationships at the heart level.
SmartSPARK: Transformed by Conflict, Empowered by Victory
Mission: To equip emerging and seasoned leaders with strategies, skills and key principles they need as change agents, to transform conflicts into stepping stones that empower victorious relationships
Everyone is born with a spark in their heart that cannot be ignited alone. It takes relationships with others to fully ignite who we are. However, just as one spark can burn down a whole forest, one word inappropriately spoken can destroy a relationship. Therefore, we must be smart with our SPARK. SmartSPARK!
Our Interactive Empowerment Sessions are about:
- Strengthening
- Peace
- And
- Reconciliation
- Keys
- Interactive Empowerment Sessions 70%
- Keynote Speaking Engagements 20%
- One-on-One Consultations 10%
About Conflict Transformation:
Rather than manage conflict or work toward reframing positions, Conflict Transformation addresses deeply embedded patterns of relating that often predate the current conflict at hand. It views conflict not as one event, but a gradual, complex process that demands engagement and interaction over time.
Frequently, when a conflict is “resolved,” individuals remain angry and tend to manage or conceal their true emotions. Conflict Transformation goes deeper, evoking an authentic dialogue that creates real understanding and lasting forgiveness.
smartSPARK is Unique
SmartSPARK renovates perceptions and assumptions about conflict from the ground up. With our roots in Conflict Transformation, we utilize strategies and methods that respectfully engage participants in, and build upon, their own wisdom and experiences. We train them to get under layers of defenses, right to the heart of an issue, and engage in a true dialogue.
We offer Interactive Empowerment Sessions, Keynote Speaking Engagements and One-on-One Consultations that reframe conflict as a dramatically different experience than the status quo.
Professional Qualifications:
Barbara is a Certified Conflict Manager through The Good Shepherd Mediation Program, and a Licensed Minister, Motivational Speaker, Leadership Coach, Facilitator and Lifelong Educator.
She holds a B.S degree in Secondary Social Studies Education from Cheyney State College, a M. ED in Urban Education from Antioch University and a Doctor of Religious Education from Friends International Christian University. Certifications in Curriculum, Instruction, Supervision and Educational Administration were earned at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also studied at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and the Palmer Seminary of Eastern University.
Conflict Management Training Experience:
- Association of Christian Schools International
- School District of Philadelphia Schools
- School District of Philadelphia Non-public Schools Teacher Conference
- Home and School Organizations
- Church Retreats and Workshops
- Youth Group Conferences and Retreats
- Philadelphia Association of Christian Schools Convocations
- Mennonite Education Conferences
- Mennonite Women’s Conferences and Retreats
- Baptist Women’s Conferences
- Trained High School Students who then trained Elementary School Students
Meet “Dr. B”
Dr. Barbara Green Moses, President of smartSPARK, LLC
Dr. B started smartSPARK, LLC in June 2014 following a stellar forty-six year career in both public and private education. Because of the violence she encountered in public schools, she was trained as a conflict mediator through the Good Shepherd Mediation Program. As a result of learning how to appropriately reconcile and transform conflict, Barbara’s relationships; family, church, professional, and international were utterly transformed.
Her passion for conflict transformation continues to grow and she is committed to equipping others with the necessary skills to strengthen their interpersonal, family, professional and global relationships.
Informal Case Study:
When Barbara founded Philadelphia Mennonite High School (PMHS, the first Mennonite High School located in a major metropolitan area), her previous training and co-authoring of a Conflict Resolution Curriculum greatly informed the peacemaking component of the school’s mission. The strategies and skills needed to transform conflicts combined with a restorative justice model of discipline created a wonderful, family-oriented, peaceful environment.
Students were equipped with the principles needed to accept responsibility for their actions and taught how to manage their own attitudes and responses. After being trained in 9th grade, 10th grade students taught what they had learned to elementary school children.
Equipping students in conflict management transformed their relationships in school, at home and in the community. During PMHS’ 16-year history there was a ten-year period of no physical altercations, and there were only eight altercations total. Students could truly focus on learning in a peaceful, loving environment, and over 98% were accepted into college.
What People Are Saying:
Conflict Transformation Class has not only prepared me for college, it has been the most useful skill I have learned.
S. HolmesLearning the strategies and skills of Conflict Transformation empowered me to forgive and reconcile with my brother after 37 years. Our loving relationship has been restored!
M. ThompsonI could see great growth in my daughter in the areas of patience, communication with her peers, arbitrating situations with her circle of friends and simply learning to walk away from confrontations.
T. Ellis