24 Feb The Art of Sculpting Our Communication Skills
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Description
Cultivating communication skills to strengthen interpersonal relationships and teamwork requires habit-building, practice, and feedback. This interactive, scenario-based session will guide participants in developing self-awareness and core communication skills.
This is the seventh event in the 2024–2025 Team Science Seminar Series. Register below!
Learning Objectives
- Expand self-awareness skills in three domains: Know, Feel, Sense
- Demonstrate core communication skills including the following:
- Asking & Listening
- Reflecting Difficult Emotions
- Reframing Fixed Perspectives
About the Speaker
Dr. Sara Kim, Research Professor of Surgery, earned her PhD in Education from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1999. She currently serves as Associate Dean for Educational Quality Improvement at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Kim is the inaugural holder of the George G. B. Bilsten Professorship in the Art of Communication with Peers and Patients. She leads research programs in conflict management and collaborates with clinical, administrative, and educational stakeholders across UW Medicine.
Since 2014, she and her team have developed training programs and taught conflict dialogue and speaking-up skills to over 10,000 healthcare professionals. Her work has been supported by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine grants and the UW Medicine Patient Safety Innovation Programs (PSIP). She has published extensively in leading medical education and specialty journals, focusing on communication skills for conflict resolution and navigating power hierarchies.
She is also a certified coach for emerging and established leaders and a certified mediator with the King County Dispute Resolution Center.
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