Advanced Transformative Mediation: Deepening Practice Through the Five Strategies

Course Facilitators: Olivier Chambert-Loir, Christian Hartwig, and Basia Solarz. 

Dates/Times: Weekly meetings November 19 - December 10, 2025 and January 7 - February 11, 2026  11:30 am- 2pm Eastern Time USA

Commitment: 39 hour course (22.5 classroom hours plus 6.5 independent intersession hours)

Cost:  Early bird $499USD by October 10, 2025.   

Regular price - $625USD 

Member  $499USD

Course Overview: In the Basic Transformative Mediation training, you explored transformative theory, principles, and foundational premises  and were introduced to the interventions that are used in transformative mediation. However, effective transformative mediation is more than simply using interventions. Advanced transformative practitioners understand when and why they use these interventions and how the overall impact of their work helps to transform the quality of people's conflict interaction.

In this two-part course, you will learn about the Five Strategies of Transformative Mediation, first developed by Dorothy Della Noce, that further clarify and deepen the practitioner's understanding about how “purpose drives practice.” 

Because the process for being certified as a transformative mediator includes self-evaluation and an evaluator assessment based on these five strategies, this course serves as an excellent preparation for anyone who is considering applying for certification as well as for anyone who is simply interested in advancing their transformative practice. 

Prerequisite: Completion of Basic Transformative Mediation training and at least 10 hours experience as a mediator whether from coached practice groups or actual mediations.

Course Details:

Advanced Mediation (Part 1) Orienting Ourselves to the Fives Strategies of Transformative Mediation.   

Part 1 introduces you to a new way of seeing and understanding transformative mediation practice using the lens of Della Noce's Five Strategies. The five strategies represent the desired objectives and outcomes of mediation altogether and help the practitioner to fulfill the "promise of mediation." In effect, they are a job description for the transformative mediator. They are:

Strategy #1: Supporting the parties’ view of mediation as a constructive conversation.

Strategy #2: Supporting the parties’ sense of their own agency

Strategy #3: Supporting the parties’ orientation to each other 

Strategy #4: Supporting the parties’ conflict talk 

Strategy #5: Supporting the parties’ decision-making process

With the support of a facilitator, you will learn to distinguish between means, moves and strategies and will be encouraged to analyze mediation based on  moves rather than interventions alone. With the support of the Move Analysis Form and through group discussion, you will learn to recognize moves consistent with each strategy in a recorded mediation.  

In the final session, we will prepare for part 2 by organizing into coached mediation practice groups and sharing your development goals as transformative mediators.

Part 1 Total time: 14 hours - 10 course hours + 4 hours inter-session work 

Advanced Mediation (Part 2) Coached Mediation Practice

You will meet in groups of four with a facilitator for four sessions of coached mediation practice. Each session will allow two participants to mediate for 30 minutes and receive 30 minutes of debrief and feedback based on their development goals. Each participant will mediate two times over the course of the four practice sessions. Recordings will be made of each session so that you can review your work as a mediator and possibly use one of your recorded mediations to apply for certification. 

Following the four practice sessions, you will have an individual writing session in place of a group session. This will give you time to write a self-evaluation based on one of the course recordings of you  work as a mediator that incorporates your understanding of the five strategies. We will then meet for a concluding session. 

Total Time: 15 hours (12.5 course hours + 2.5 writing hours)

Enrolment maximum: To ensure each participant has two opportunities to mediate and receive facilitator feedback, this course is  limited to 12 participants.