Soraya Deen MA is  a lawyer, and a professional speaker.

She promotes dialogue and compassionate communication during conflict, especially when the stakes are high.  She promotes Interfaith Dialogue and teaches communication skills to Corporations, Parents and Individuals.

She is an author, her childrens book "Papa Teach me Peace" has won great reviews. 

She travels extensively conducting highly interactive workshops engaging and inspiring her audience to hold a vision for the world where everyones NEEDS matter.

 TOPICS:

1.       A Muslim In Kings America – Here Soraya draws from the words of Dr. King to impress upon her audience that Muslims must not be judged by the extreme practices of a few in Islam.  She reminds us that a first class nation can’t have second class citizens. She calls her audience to action by reminding them that it is the silence and not the violence that is deafening.

2.       Being Muslim In America – the Challenges and Celebrations – Here Soraya shares her own personal stories.  Her life in a Christian home. Her relationship with her Christian mother and sister. She talks about the dangers of extremism and fear. She inspires her audience to befriend one another.  Every enemy is someone whose story you have not heard!

Soraya will also share her insights into the much asked and most misunderstood concepts of Islam, namely, Shahria, Women’s Rights, Violence, Quran, Peace and the Pillars of Islam.

3.       How to create thriving relationships at work – Here Soraya helps corporations boost their productivity and employee retention by building competency in productive and effective communication skills.  She lays the foundation for successful communication and richer relationships in the work place.

4.       Compassionate Classrooms – Soraya  is passionate about kids.  She believes that true and lasting peace can be achieved when we empower and educate our children to build relationships based on love and respect.  In Compassionate classrooms everyone’s NEEDS matter.   Teaching takes place in a relationship based environment.  Educators are empowered to LISTEN.

5.       Celebrating DIFFERENCES through Compassionate Communication - Understanding needs that motivate behavior is crucial to our ability to communicate without blame or shame.  Soraya helps her audience to understand the four D’s of dysfunctional communication.   She works on building EMPATHY. She inspires her audience to make observations and not moralistic judgments.  Audiences walk away with three simple ways to Communicate Connect and Celebrate.

NO FAULT ZONE AT WORK

6.    Do you forego your needs or succumb to others demands?

Do you hear communication that is filled with blame and shame?

Do problems get solved, but conflict remains in your workplace?

In a NO FAULT ZONE, everyone’s needs matter.  In this highly interactive and powerfully transformative workshop participants will learn the four D’s of dysfunctional communication.  Participants will also learn to express NEEDS and FEELINGS and make specific actionable REQUESTS.

This half day workshop will empower participants to –

Engage in empathic listening to promote heart centered connection.

Cultivate concrete methods to focus on CONNECTING before CORRECTING.

Boost productivity and employee retention by building competency in productive and effective communication skills.

Build richer relationships at work by understanding the NEEDS that motivate behaviors and much more….