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.
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.
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
You are invited to ISCT's new Book Club!
The first book we plan to read is the new dialogue book, edited by Judy Saul and Erik Cleven. Read more about the book, and purchase it on ISCT's website here.
We plan to cover five chapters of the book at each of our three sessions.
Please RSVP for the zoom link!
Transformative Dialogue: Co-Creating Conversations in Communities and Organizations
Dialogue can be an effective response to group and community conflict. This book focuses on the many ways of organizing and facilitating transformative dialogue in conflict resolution. Erik Cleven and Judith Saul bring together an international array of experts to provide an introduction to transformative dialogue in conflict resolution work and show its application in a variety of contexts and challenging cases. Transformative dialogue is a process that allows participants to make decisions about the content, process, and outcomes of dialogue, as well as who will participate. It puts the agency and self-determination of participants at the center while allowing facilitators to co-create dialogue with members of organizations and communities. It also centers on the importance of changes in the quality of interaction between participants since these relational changes are at the heart of dialogue. This book articulates core values that guide the practice of a transformative facilitator and shows how transformative dialogue works in a variety of contexts to support peace and justice.
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.
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.
Stories of Empowerment and Recognition shifts : A Practitioner’s Café Conversation
As transformative practitioners we focus on supporting empowerment and recognition shifts in our meditations as well as our dialogue process, coaching sessions and even in our Responding Effectively to Conflict Trainings. At this cafe, we invite members to come share stories of empowerment and recognition from your practice - stories of shifts that were surprising, moving or uplifting. Conflict is hard, and stories of transformation help us stay hopeful and inspired about people and our work. Come and share with your fellow practitioners at this cafe conversation.
Open to all. Register for a zoom link!
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