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• ISCT Porch Gatherings 2025

  • Start
    February 21, 2025
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  • End
    November 28, 2025
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  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    zoom

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  ISCT Porch Gathering
  

  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. via Zoom

  5/23, 6/27, 7/25, 8/22, 9/26, 10/24, 11/28 (last session)

  Hosts: Barbara Cockerman & 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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• Fall 2025 Basic Transformative Dialogue Training: Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?

  • Start
    September 01, 2025
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    December 31, 2025
  •  
    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 December 31, 2025
  

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

  Cost:  Early bird $395USD by September 15, 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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• Transformative Mediation Practice Group with Dan Simon

  • Start
    November 04, 2025
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  • End
    November 18, 2025
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    online
  • Spaces left
    1

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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 in November.

  November 4, 2025 12pm-2pm Eastern Time US

  November 11, 2025 12pm-2pm Eastern Time US

  November 18, 2025 12pm-2pm Eastern Time US

  Price: $90 USD

  Member Price: $72 USD

  
  

  Zoom link sent after registration.

  
  

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• The Art of Reflection, with Tara West

  • When
    November 10, 2025
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    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 and coaching.

  *Basic Transformative Mediation training required

  
  

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• The Art of Summary: A two-part workshop

  • Start
    November 21, 2025
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  • End
    December 05, 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    online

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  The Art of Summary: A two-part 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 linguistic 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.

  Total of 6 hours of training

  Cost: $120 early bird/member price

               $150 regular price

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• Domestic Violence & Transformative Practice, with Kristy Paranica

  • When
    December 04, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    online

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  Domestic Violence & Transformative Practice, with Kristy Paranica

  The goal of this offering is to enhance mediator skills to identify and address domestic violence issues in family mediation through role playing and discussion of best practices. The first hour will be a presentation, the4 second hour will be practice.  Some topics covered are: 

  • What is Domestic Violence (DV)? - Exploring the DV Scenario in Mediation

  • Understanding and Using the Mediator Screening Tool with Practice and Debrief

  • Safe Termination of a Mediation and Safety Planning

  • Mediation Role Play Practice with DV Issues with Debrief

  • New Ideas for Cases Involving DV – What is Possible?

  Zoom link will be sent after registration.
  

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• Child Inclusive Mediation, with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová

  • When
    December 12, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    online

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  Child Inclusive Mediation, with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová

  This training 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.

  December 12, 9 am - 3 pm Eastern

  Zoom link will be sent upon registration!

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