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• Spring 2026 Basic Transformative Dialogue Training: Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?

  • Start
    January 05, 2026
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • End
    April 30, 2026
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    online

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  Basic Transformative Dialogue Training:

  Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?

  Dates/Times: This training is fully asynchronous. Upon registration you will receive access to a Google Classroom with all reading, videos, and coursework.  You will have the option to set up a call with one of the trainers if you'd like to ask questions or talk about any of the material.  The materials will be available to you until April 30, 2026.
  

  Commitment:  18 hour course (8 hours of video and approximately 10 independent reading and reflection hours)

  Cost:  Early bird $395USD by December 31, 2025

  Regular price - $475USD 

  
  

  Course Overview: 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:

  • Learn how the transformative understanding of conflict applies to group and community conflict
  • Gain a relational understanding of identity, race, ethnicity, culture and power, and learn how transformative facilitators respond to these differences
  • Understand how transformative dialogue is consistent with trauma-informed practice
  • Learn to organize a participant-driven dialogue process through one-on-one and small group meetings and conversations with community members
  • Learn the goals, roles and core skills of a transformative facilitator
  • Learn techniques for facilitating open conversations and options for structuring interactions transformatively that allow even very large groups to share ideas and make decisions

  Who the course is for:

  This training is for anyone interested in growing their skills and understanding of Transformative Dialogue.  Elements on this online training 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.

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• ISCT Porch Gatherings 2026

  • Start
    January 23, 2026
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  • End
    November 20, 2026
  • Schedule
    11 sessions
  • Location
    zoom

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  ISCT Porch Gathering 2026
  

  What: A virtual space to regularly gather, connect, and converse.

  Who: Transformative practitioners who identify as members of the Black/African diasporic experience.
  

  When: The 4^th Friday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern via Zoom

  • Friday, January 23, 2026
  • Friday, February 27, 2026
  • Friday, March 27, 2026
  • Friday, April 24, 2026
  • Friday, May 29, 2026
  • Friday, June 26, 2026
  • Friday, July 24, 2026
  • Friday, August 28, 2026
  • Friday, September 25, 2026
  • Friday, October 23, 2026
  • Friday, November 20, 2026

  Hosts: Barbara Cockerman, Mike Criam & Jerry Mings

  How to Participate: Register here, and receive reminders with the zoom link a few days before each of the scheduled sessions.
  

  Topics and Discussions: Informal and shaped by participants’ needs.

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• Networking & Connecting with ISCT

  • When
    January 29, 2026
  •  
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    On line

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  Come join us for this networking and connection event. You'll have opportunities to meet other practitioners and those interested in Transformative practice or the Institute. We hope to help build community as we move into the new Year. This hour-long event is open to members and non-members. 

  Zoom link sent after registration.
  

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• Introduction to Transformative Mediation, with Tara West

  • When
    February 03, 2026
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    online

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  Introduction to Transformative Mediation, with Tara West 

  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.

  Stick around after the Introduction to T M to meet some of the Virtual Institute Trainers & hear about our upcoming offerings!

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• Transformative Mediation Practice Group with Dan Simon

  • Start
    February 17, 2026
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  • End
    March 03, 2026
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    online
  • Spaces left
    6

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  Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Dan Simon.
  

  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.

  Three 2 hour Sessions on Tuesdays- 

  February 17-12pm-2pm Eastern Time US

  February 24- 12pm-2pm Eastern Time US

  March 3- 12pm-2pm Eastern Time US

  Price: $100 USD

  Member Price: $80 USD

  
  

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• Responding Effectively to Conflict

  • When
    February 19, 2026
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    online

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  Responding Effectively to Conflict, with Janet Mueller

  This workshop will help you to understand the dynamics that contribute to conflict from the perspective of the relational worldview and transformative approach to conflict. The group will discuss three conflict insights as a foundation for developing greater self-awareness and conflict competency.  Skills developed can be used for self-reflection, with community members, co-workers, family, and friends. Even as Conflict Practitioners, it can be hard to "do conflict" well.  This workshop will help us prepare for difficult conversations so you can show up as your best self, as well as help us better understand the people we serve.

  When you sign up for this workshop, you will receive and emailed PDF copy of a selection of essays on self managing conflict, written by Transformative practitioners, including Janet!

  Hope you join us for this 2 hour workshop.

  Price:  $60

  Special Member price: $20 

  
  

  
  

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• Inside Out Practice Group, with Robin & Martina

  • When
    February 23, 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    online

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  Inside Out Practice Group, with Robin & Martina

  Would you like to practice your mediation skills by analyzing another mediator’s session, rather than having your own session analyzed?

  We have the workshop for you!

  During this 2-hour session, you will have the opportunity to observe a mediator in action, via a recorded role-play, and analyze the situation. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions of Robin & Martina, including how they read the parties’ states of weakness and self-absorption and why the mediator made the practice choices they made. You will have a chance to pause the mediation session, come back to specific situations, and analyze what you observed in more detail.

  
  

  prerequisite: basic transformative mediation training

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• Basic Transformative Mediation Training Package, with Martina Cirbusová & Hannah Diamond

  • Start
    March 16, 2026
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  • End
    May 18, 2026
  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    online

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  The ISCT Basic Transformative Mediation Training gives participants a solid foundation in the Transformative Approach to Mediation, including the theory and how it is lived out in action. 
  

  This package includes two parts: the Basic Mediation Course (6 sessions) and a Mediation Practice Group (3 sessions).  

  Part 1 Basic Mediation Course

  This course is 18 hours of live, interactive online training with a small class size and experienced trainer.  The course includes presentations, discussions, exercises, and role plays.  The class will meet as a large group as well as work in break-out groups.  We will be using Google drive for sharing materials and email for communication between sessions.

  Following the 6 Basic Training sessions, participants will join a 3 session practice group.
  

  By completing this full package, you will have completed a 24 hour Basic Transformative Mediation training.

  *Scholarships available, fill out an application form!

  
  ______________________________Dates & Times_________________________________
  

  Basic Transformative Mediation Training dates:

  1.March 16, 2026, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  2.March 23, 2026, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  3.March 30, 2026, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  4.April 06, 2026, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  5.April 13, 2026, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  6.April 20, 2026, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  Basic Transformative Mediation Practice Group dates:

  7.May 04, 2026, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  8.May 11, 2026, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  9.May 18, 2026, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  

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• The Art of Reflection, with Tara West

  • When
    April 17, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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  The Art of Reflection, with Tara West

  Reflection is one of the most important interventions of the Transformative Model. It is a supportive response that is aimed at helping individuals hear themselves and make choices in how to communicate during a difficult conflict conversation.

  Reflection is a supportive third-party response that is aimed at helping individuals who are engaged in a conflict conversation to hear themselves better and to make choices. As practiced in the Transformative Approach to Mediation and Dialogue, reflection is neither a corrective or coercive intervention, (unlike reframing, which is often aimed at telling or suggesting to folks how they should speak or what their tone or focus should be). The Art of Reflection is practiced in a way where the mediator experiences themselves as a listening and observing mirror. Our reflections are most effective when they capture both what is said and what is not necessarily expressed verbally. Learn how to do reflection = mirroring, as a means of skillfully supporting each individual’s ability to gain clarity and improve their own conflict communication, which in turn, improves the interaction between parties in conflict. This workshop will include demonstrations, group discussions, and opportunities for participants to practice and receive feedback.

  *Basic Transformative Mediation training required

  
  

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• Inside Out Practice Group, with Dan Simon and Tara West

  • When
    May 18, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online

  Register

  Inside Out Practice Group, with Dan Simon and Tara West

  Would you like to practice your mediation skills by analyzing another mediator’s session, rather than having your own session analyzed?

  We have the workshop for you!

  During this 2-hour session, you will have the opportunity to observe a mediator (Dan) in action, via a recorded role-play, and analyze the situation. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions of Dan and Tara, including how they read the parties’ states of weakness and self-absorption and why Dan made the practice choices he made. You will have a chance to pause the mediation session, come back to specific situations, and analyze what you observed in more detail.

  
  

  prerequisite: basic transformative mediation training

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• Basic Transformative Mediation Training Package, with Janet Mueller & Christian P

  • Start
    October 13, 2026
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  • End
    December 15, 2026
  •  
  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    online

  Register

  The ISCT Basic Transformative Mediation Training gives participants a solid foundation in the Transformative Approach to Mediation, including the theory and how it is lived out in action. 
  

  This package includes two parts: the Basic Mediation Course (6 sessions) and a Mediation Practice Group (3 sessions).  

  Part 1 Basic Mediation Course

  This course is 18 hours of live, interactive online training with a small class size and experienced trainer.  The course includes presentations, discussions, exercises, and role plays.  The class will meet as a large group as well as work in break-out groups.  We will be using Google drive for sharing materials and email for communication between sessions.

  Following the 6 Basic Training sessions, participants will join a 3 session practice group.
  

  By completing this full package, you will have completed a 24 hour Basic Transformative Mediation training.

  *Scholarships available, fill out an application form!

  
  ______________________________Dates & Times_________________________________
  

  Basic Transformative Mediation Training dates:

  1. October 13, 2026, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  2. October 20, 2026, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  3. October 27, 2026, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  4. November 03, 2026, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  5. November 10, 2026, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  6. November 17, 2026, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  Basic Transformative Mediation Practice Group dates:

  7. December 01, 2026, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  8. December 08, 2026, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  9. December 15, 2026, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Please use this link to check the time in your time zone! Thanks.
  

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