RiverRun, headquartered in Southern Vermont, offers facilitation services for conflict management, mediation, team building, creative problem solving, strategic planning, identifying and working with organizational values, and executive coaching.

RiverRun offers workshops in Conflict Management, Tapping Your Creative Potential, Getting the Most Out of Your Meetings, Team Building, Interpersonal Communication and Spirituality in the Workplace.

RiverRun values the role each twist and turn plays in moving you toward your destination. Incorporating the techniques of Creative Problem Solving, Synectics, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, SolutionsMapping and storyboarding, we work with you to design a custom voyage that is wholly your own.

Our navigators are skilled in applying their knowledge and experience to a wide variety of challenging journeys. We meet you where you are and help guide you forward with the flow.

As your river guides, we believe that hard work is enhanced by hard play, so we create a discovery environment that allows time for both. Lecture time is minimal, interactive exercises, creative activity and group discussion are the ways explore our communication with each other.

In addition to facilitation and training, RiverRun can guide your organization through its internal communication challenges, helping you reach your audiences with effective campaigns which define and promote your services and products.

Public communication services include facilitated marketing plan development; media relations management; production of press releases, brochures, newsletters and reports; production of print, radio and television advertising; speech writing and presentation coaching.

M.B. (Jerry) Handspicker has been active in the area of group conflict management since 1973. Jerry holds a Ph.D. from Yale Graduate School. He is a master programmer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and is trained in Synectics, Mind Free and SolutionsMapping. He has been a professor at Andover Newton Theological School since 1967, where he has taught courses in interpersonal communications and human behavior in organizations. He is also a lecturer in the Harvard Medical School's Department of Psychiatry. From 1963 to 1967 he was a member of the Executive Staff of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, where he gained an international perspective on the nature of conflict and its many possible resolutions.

Amy Swisher has worked in public relations, planning and program development since 1980. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in performance studies and holds an M.Ed. From Antioch/New England Graduate School. She has developed multi-faceted marketing campaigns for clients in health care, education, business, the arts, politics and human services. She has taught public speaking at the college level, served as director of a United Way agency through its first two years of operation, and for 17 years was Director of Community Relations at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center. She has studied and practiced Creative Problem Solving through the Creative Education Foundation in Buffalo, NY, and is trained in SolutionsMapping.

Chris Heintz has worked in marketing, hotel conference planning and customer service since 1980, both in the United States and the Far East. He has served as a consultant to both non-profit organizations and businesses. Since earning his M.A. from Andover Newton Theological School in 1987, he has been director of the International Symposium on Spirituality and Business. A skilled facilitator, Chris is certified as a leader by the Creative Education Foundation in Buffalo, NY.

riverrun@sover.net

RiverRun Communications
PO Box 494
North Bennington, VT 05257