Connecting transformative practitioners across the world
Assessor 4 module Training- Closed Training
INSIDE-OUT PRACTICE GROUP with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová
Would you like to practice your mediation skills but prefer to have an experience where you will analyze how mediation works rather than be the one who is under the pressure of being analyzed?
We do have a special practice session for you!
During this three hour session you will have the opportunity to see how mediators work and analyze their work - ask questions about their intentions, discuss their interventions, and have an opportunity to understand how they read the weaknesses and self-absorption of parties and why they offer specific interventions to the parties. You will have a chance to pause the mediation any time you will need, come back to specific situations, and analyze them in more detail.
prerequisite: basic transformative mediation training
Although transformative mediation is widely recognized as one of the main approaches to mediation, it’s also widely misunderstood. In this talk, certified transformative mediator Tara West will attempt to bridge that gap by sharing what transformative mediation means today (which is not exactly what it meant 25 years ago), compare and contrast it with other mediation approaches, and explain why it’s the approach she now exclusively practices.
A chance to hear an update about the ISCT's work in 2024 and what to expect in 2025, to share your feedback about membership, and connect with other transformative practitioners!
Can't make it at 9:30 am Eastern? Come to our other time slot, also on January 21, at 12- 1:30 pm Eastern. RSVP for that option here.
Can't make it to this time? We are also offering this on the same day, January 21, at 9:30 am. RSVP HERE.
Child Inclusive Mediation: A two part Workshop, with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová
This two part workshop will cover the following:
• What is the purpose of involving children in mediation?
• What is scientific evidence behind this practice?
• How to involve children in mediation - 18 different options will be introduced.
• How to provide feedback from the child to parents during mediation? Video sample.
• What techniques and tools are available?
There will also be discussion about: • Key hallmarks of good practice.
• Ethics of this particular practice.
• Guidelines for professionals interested in this type of mediation, including steps and how to get started.
January 24 & 31, both dates 9 am -12 pm Eastern.
Zoom link will be sent after registration!
Basic Transformative Dialogue Training:
Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?
A combined training with both virtual and in-person (Brno, Czech Republic) learning
Take the joint virtual/in-person training, join the in-person training if you have a had Transformative Dialogue training previously or take the virtual only component!
For those planning to travel to the Czech Republic for the in person training, please note we need a minimum number of people enrolled to go forward with the training. We fully expect to reach that! We will let you know when we have . Please don't make any non-refundable travel plans until we confirm with you.
This training provides participants with the basic understanding and skills to support people in communities and organizations in having meaningful and constructive conversations across differences; conversations that help change the quality of their interactions whether or not they agree at the end of the process.
Participants will:
Who the course is for:
This training is a significant revision of earlier trainings in transformative dialogue, so even if you have taken an earlier training there is much to learn here. New elements include expanded premises on identity and people in groups, incorporation of trauma-informed practice into the training, and centering discussions of race, culture and power in the training. Whether you are interested in organizing and facilitating conversations in your local community, or in your workplace or organization you belong to, or you are working in an area of ethnopolitical conflict, this training will be an excellent starting point for this work.
Virtual Component:
This component has self guided learning that includes watching videos and reading materials, and five virtual live meetings to engage and discuss with the trainers and the other students. Meetings will be recorded.
In Person Component:
Take what you've learning in the virtual component and dive deeper into the application and the practice with Transformative Fellow and Dialogue Practitioners, Judy Saul.
If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please fill out our online form here.
Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Kristine Paranica.
A great opportunity to practice your mediation skills in small group setting with a coach. Three sessions allows for time to play the roles of both a mediator and a party in the mediation. Group is limited to six participants.
Zoom link sent after registration.
Supporting Self-Determination in Challenging Situations, with Dan Simon and Tara West
Join Tara West and Dan Simon, co-authors of Self-Determination in Mediation: The Art and Science of Mirrors and Lights, as they delve into how mediators can uphold party self-determination even when external constraints limit choices. Learn strategies for handling situations where parties ask mediators to make decisions, disagree on participation, or face imposed time limits and documentation requirements. Discover how to navigate these challenges and maximize party choice, even in difficult circumstances.
The Art of Summary: A 2-session Workshop, with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová
Summary Workshop, Session 1 – Why, Where and How (2WH Approach)
Summary is one of the key means mediators have for supporting parties during a difficult conversation. This workshop provides an opportunity to approach summaries from a fresh perspective by working in small groups and using videotapes.
Participants will learn to recognize individual topics in the words of the parties using functional lingusitic theory of a theme-rheme structure and bubbles with legs metaphor and compose them into valuable summaries.
Participants will receive a comprehensive tool - 2WH - for real-time decision-making on using summary.
Summary Workshop, Session 2- The Many Faces of the Summary
Regarding non-directiveness, a summary is considered one of the most difficult means for supporting parties during conflict. Contrary to reflection, whilst summarizing, mediators inevitably have to change something on the parties' words to make the conversation more transparent for the parties. Acknowledging this, we realize we can recognize different types of the summary as to the number of the issues involved, time or location of the summary within the timeline of the conversation, or using positions of the parties regarding the summarized issue.
During the workshop, participants will understand the different types of summaries and the possibilities of using them to support parties.
Participants will have the opportunity to analyze summaries of some important ISCT mediators.
Participants will try to combine partial topics into thematic clusters. They will learn to distinguish between one topic and multi-topic summary.
*Both sessions will be recorded and shared with all registered- so if you can't make it to one of the dates, you will still receive the recording and all relevant materials- hand outs/ slides etc.
Zoom link will be sent after registration.
Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Dan Simon.
Check-In’s - The Art of Asking Non-Directive Questions, with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová
Asking questions is a powerful tool through which parties can regain the reins of the conversation and restore their agency. As transformative practitioners, we ask questions in the form of the check-in intervention. The challenge, however, is how not to misuse questions to dominate the conversation or be one step ahead of the parties, leading them toward predefined objectives. This workshop will offer a deep analysis of this essential tool of the transformative practitioner in terms of proper delivery and possible positive and negative consequences of asking questions on the self-determination of the participants. Thus, the workshop will focus on the skill of asking questions in a way that maintains the fulfillment of all the premises of the transformative approach.
In a 3 hour workshop participants will learn:
What type of intervention a check-in is
What is the difference between content and process questions
How does asking both types of questions influence the conversation and self-determination
How to ask questions in tune with the premises of transformative practice
Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Tara West.
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