Connecting transformative practitioners across the world
Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Carol Bloom.
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.
Tuesdays, November 19, December 3 & 17, 7-9 pm Eastern.
Zoom link sent after registration.
Trauma-Informed Transformative Mediation through the lens of Intimate Partner Violence and beyond, with Kristy Paranica and Susan Jordan
Audience: Transformative mediators, facilitators, case managers, program developers, and other interested practitioners
Key take-aways:
- expand your knowledge of trauma and trauma-informed mediation practice
- understand what trauma is in the context of Intimate Partner Violence and what to do if it shows up in the mediation room
- explore interventions helpful in minimizing the risk of retraumatizing parties
- learn how voice and choice are impacted and important when trauma shows up in the room
Zoom link will be sent after registration.
Mediation Ethics Discussion with Sharon Press
Join Mitchell Hamline School of Law Professor Sharon Press as she discusses the core ethical dilemmas facing all mediators. How do we deal with ethical guidelines that arise from different assumptions about the mediator’s role? What special dilemmas arise when we’re committed to the transformative approach? Dan Simon will also join the discussion.
Empathy in Transformative Mediation Practice: A Practitioner’s Café Conversation
When we talk about empathy in relation to transformative mediation, we are focused on empathy between participants, that recognition shift that one party signals to the other, “I understand/hear/see you in the way you would like to be understood/heard/seen.” But what about empathy as it relates to the mediator? How does empathy influence our role as mediators? Is mediator empathy required in order for us to be able to let go of our assumptions and biases, especially when faced with a point of view ? Or would empathy reinforce bias? Through our reflections and summaries, of both language (verbal and nonverbal) and emotion, and our commitment to the principle of self-determination, are we in a sense modeling cognitive empathy, or perspective-taking — a perspective-taking that leads us to better attuned reflection? Join this Cafe to talk this through with other transformative mediators and practitioners.
Register for a zoom link!
Thursdays, December 5, 12, & 19, 1-3 pm Eastern.
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.
prerequisite: basic transformative mediation training
Child Inclusive Mediation: A two part Workshop, with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová
This two part workshop 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.
January 24 & 31, both dates 9 am -12 pm Eastern.
Zoom link will be sent after registration!
Basic Transformative Dialogue Training:
Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?
A combined training with both virtual and in-person (Brno, Czech Republic) learning
Take the joint virtual/in-person training, join the in-person training if you have a had Transformative Dialogue training previously or take the virtual only component!
For those planning to travel to the Czech Republic for the in person training, please note we need a minimum number of people enrolled to go forward with the training. We fully expect to reach that! We will let you know when we have . Please don't make any non-refundable travel plans until we confirm with you.
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.
Virtual Component:
This component has self guided learning that includes watching videos and reading materials, and five virtual live meetings to engage and discuss with the trainers and the other students. Meetings will be recorded.
In Person Component:
Take what you've learning in the virtual component and dive deeper into the application and the practice with Transformative Fellow and Dialogue Practitioners, Judy Saul.
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