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Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation

Connecting transformative practitioners across the world


Upcoming events

    • February 21, 2025
    • November 28, 2025
    • 10 sessions
    • 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 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.

    Topics and Discussions: Informal and shaped by participants’ needs.
    • March 10, 2025
    • March 24, 2025
    • 3 sessions
    • online
    • 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.

    Zoom link sent after registration.

    • March 19, 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • online
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    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 

    • April 01, 2025
    • April 15, 2025
    • 3 sessions
    • online
    • 3
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    Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Tara West.

    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.

    • April 10, 2025
    • April 24, 2025
    • 2 sessions
    • online
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    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

    1. April 10, 2025, 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    2. April 24, 2025, 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM


    • April 23, 2025
    • June 18, 2025
    • 9 sessions
    • 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. April 23, 2025, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    2. April 30, 2025, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    3. May 07, 2025, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    4. May 14, 2025, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    5. May 21, 2025, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    6. May 28, 2025, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

    Basic Transformative Mediation Practice Group dates:

    7. June 04, 2025, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    8. June 11, 2025, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    9. June 18, 2025, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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