Connecting transformative practitioners across the world
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 4th Friday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom
2/21, 3/28, 4/25, 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.
Prerequisite: participation in a FACE training or Lab
This April we are offering a series of two 3-hour practice and discussion sessions. These will be focused on FACE issues, using critical points role play scenarios and a preassigned mediator and role players. In addition to the role play, there will be time for discussion.
Please only register for these sessions if you have taken the FACE training or were part of the Lab. For questions, contact Lydia@transformativemediation.org
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.
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!
Basic Transformative Mediation Training dates:
Basic Transformative Mediation Practice Group dates:
Please use this link to check the time in your time zone! Thanks.
Basic Transformative Dialogue Training:
Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?
Training Details:
This training is asynchronous. Upon registration you will receive access to a Google Classroom (GC) with all reading, videos, and homework. We have 3 live zoom check in sessions planned for the May-August cohort. These are optional and will be recorded and posted to the GC. Dates of check-in's are TBD.
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.
Caring for Ourselves in challenging times: A Practitioner’s Café Conversation
In our roles as mediators, facilitators, and coaches we are in the midst of people’s very challenging conflicts -hearing hard stories of loss, struggle, and trauma. Our role can be even more challenging when societal structures impact the people we serve - housing shortages and costs, immigration issues, economic uncertainty, and cut government services. And maybe we are in the thick of it too - from worries of funding losses to the personal impact of the current situation.
How can we find strength and support for each other in this time? Come to this ISCT Member Cafe to lean on your fellow practitioners, share what helps you find balance, exchange resources and build community.
Open to all. Register for a zoom link!
Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Martina Cirbusová
A great opportunity to practice your mediation skills in small group setting with a coach. These sessions will focus on role play scenarios with families.
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.
Just Right Reflections : the delicate balance of not too close and not too far,
with Janet Mueller
In this interactive workshop, we will explore transformative mediator's use of reflections - going beyond the basic understanding of reflections to examine them together. We will explore:
Through video/transcript analysis and practice exercises we will try to find that sweet spot of "just right" reflections.
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.
*If you attended this workshop in the past, know that there will be a new video analyzed this time!
prerequisite: basic transformative mediation training
Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Kristine Paranica
A great opportunity to practice your mediation skills in small group setting with a coach. These sessions will focus on role play scenarios in the workplace.
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