Ginny Morrison addresses audiences internationally on a full range of conflict resolution and field experience topics. Audiences are as diverse as clinicians, prison and police officials, lawyers, health care managers and executives, peacebuilders, mental health professionals, tribal leaders, judges, academics, researchers and insurers. They each come away with practical insight they can apply immediately.

Talks are adapted to the interests of each audience and are always engaging and interactive. These are offered as pre-conference sessions, workshops, breakouts, Grand Rounds, or in other formats as requested.


The following is a representative sampling of previous speaking engagements by category. A full list is available upon request.

                               
▪ Health Care Leadership Associations                 ▪ Law & Mediation Associations
▪ Clinical Associations                                               ▪ International Peacebuilding 

National Patient Safety Foundation Congress, Orlando, FL:
Using Improvisation Techniques: Simulation and Skill Development for Difficult Conversations in the Clinical Setting

American College of Healthcare Executives Congress, Chicago, IL:
Mediation Techniques for Health Care Leaders

Lumetra (Medicare) – Mediation in Motion conference, San Francisco, CA:
Creative Approaches to Healthcare Mediation

Medical Group Management Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN:
Preconference session: Negotiation Skills for Group Practice Managers-Responding to Tricks, Power Plays and “Passive-Aggressive” Maneuvers

Association of Nurse Executives Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA:
Acknowledging Error: Ethics, Liability and Conflict Resolution in an Era of Patient Safety

Creative Conflict Management in Health Care , Dialogue organizer, Vancouver, Canada

Coro, University of California at San Francisco Leadership Development Program, San Francisco, CA:
Leadership Skills: Conflict Resolution and Negotiation

Hospital Council of Northern and Central California, Health Care Summit, San Francisco, CA:
Designing a Program for Disclosing Unanticipated Events

Hospital Insurance Forum Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ:
Using Mediation and Its Techniques to Reduce and Manage Risk

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American Medical Association Group and Faculty Practice Caucus Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL:
Team Management Techniques for Physicians: Moving from Competition to Collaboration

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute, Orlando, FL:
Creative Conflict Management in Critical Care and Collaborative Solutions for Creating Healthy Work Environments

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA:
Prisoner Research: The View from the Field

American Medical Association Organized Medical Staff Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL:
Negotiation Skills for Responding to Tricks, Power Plays and “Passive-Aggressive” Maneuvers

Children’s Hospital of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA:
Talking With Patients and Families About Patient Harm (series of workshops in multiple formats and media)

American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN:
Using Mediation Techniques to Manage Risk

Kaiser Permanente Northern CA Ethics Dept Symposium, San Ramon, CA:
Physician-Assisted Suicide – What We're Learning From Oregon's Experience and a Dialogue on the Values That Inform Our Actions

American Medical Association Group and Faculty Practice Caucus Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL:
Apologizing for Error: Ethics, Liability and Managing Conflict in an Era of Patient Safety

Kaiser Permanente Northern CA Ethics Dept Symposium, Berkeley, CA:
Negotiating from the Eye of the Storm: Skills for Balancing Interests in End-of-Life Decision-making

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute, San Antonio, TX:
Curing Conflict™: Introduction to Mediation Techniques in the Critical Care Setting

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA:
Survival Skills for IRB Professionals: Conflict Resolution and Avoiding Burnout

National Association of Social Workers-California Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA:
Integrating Mediation Techniques to Improve Clinical Teams and Patient Safety

Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses 50th Congress, Chicago, IL:
Curing Conflict™: Mediation Techniques for the Health Care Professional

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research Annual Meeting, Boston, MA:
Preconference session: Upset Subjects, PIs or Colleagues? How to Transform Negative Research Interactions

Applied Research Ethics National Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA:
Upset Subjects, Angry PIs, and Surly Colleagues: Transforming Negative Interactions into Productive Solutions

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International Academy of Law and Mental Health, 30th International Conference, Padua, Italy:
Mental Health Care in Prisons: Beyond Litigation to Effective Systems

Managing Conflict Ethically: Collaboration in Bioethics and Health Law, Atlanta, GA:
Dialogue organizer
Mediation Techniques: Developing Skills for Balancing Competing Interests -and-
When Things Spiral Out of Control: Practicing Methods for Rebuilding Trust and Making the Conversation Productive -and–
World Café: Surfacing Values and Assumptions Within Professional Cultures

Georgia State University Law Review Symposium -- The Next Generation of ADR and Conflict Management in Health Care Settings: New Challenges, New Approaches, Atlanta, GA:
Improving Patient Care Through Conflict Resolution – Insiders’ Approaches

American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA:
Growing Pains: The Next Stage in Health Care ADR

City University of New York Dispute Resolution Consortium, New York, NY:
Conflict Management in Health Care – The Inside Scoop for Mediators

American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX:
A Prescription for Institutional ADR (awarded Best Original Paper for the conference)

Association for Conflict Resolution, Annual Conference, San Diego, CA:
Using Lessons Learned in Mediation to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Care

American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, Annual Meeting, New York, NY:
Curing Conflict: Bridging the Divide Between Dispute Resolution and Health Care

Southern California Mediation AssociationConference, Malibu, CA:
Cutting Edge Issues in Healthcare Mediation- A Dialogue

Wisconsin Association of Mediators Emerging Issues in Mediation Conference, Madison, WI:
Conflict Management in Health Care: Using Mediation to Foster Healthy Clinical Environments

Santa Clara University School of Law, guest lectures, Santa Clara, CA:
Mediation and Conflict Resolution in the Health Law Arena
Conflict Resolution in Health Law

California Western School of Law Preventing and Solving Legal Problems Creatively, San Diego, CA:
Creating Synergy in Health Care- Managing Conflict Through Complementary Conflict Resolution


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Women for Peace International Conference, Nairobi, Kenya:
Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Community Women as Peace Leaders

American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA:
Mediators Beyond Borders and the Rule of Law: Peacebuilding in International Communities

Southern Methodist University International Training Center, Plano, TX:
Working Within Communities: Some Implications for Fieldwork

Mediators Beyond Borders, Annual Congress, Los Angeles, CA:
OMG: Our Partner Said What!? – Lessons from the Field

Hastings School of Law, guest lecture, San Francisco, CA:
International Conflict Resolution

Mediators Beyond Borders, Annual Congress, Washington, DC:
Leadership Roles and Responsibilities