Vanessa Winters

For more than thirteen years, Vanessa Winters has led discussion groups in public high school settings, at Boys/Girls Club, youth detention centers and in private homes with family members.
Vanessa studied Psychology at Normandale College where she received encouragement to use her natural ability and desire to create settings where students and family members could speak freely and have their conce s taken seriously.
Ms. Winters is the author of MISSION: Conflictr Resolution, a booklet of three stories of characters dealing with conflict. Each story can be read in five to seven minutes. And each feature, end of story questions to stimulate lively discussions, orrnyour own private contemplation of the events and characters. A handyr Facilitator's Guide is also included.
Visit her website at www.terrif7.mysite.com to read one of the short stories that will inspire you to get involved in the characters' situations. Their lives are not so different from our own. So, guess what? As you challenge yourself to find solutions and justice for them, you'll come up with answers to many of your own questions.