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Mediation Fundamentals

AN INTRODUCTORY 3-DAY PROGRAM FOR MEDIATORS.

This course is designed for participants who wish to complete the basic knowledge and parcticum in a 3-day block.

Content of MEDIATION FUNDAMENTALS includes an introduction to mediation as a non-adversarial method of dispute resolution, to mediation theory and the process of mediation; to interests as the basis on which agreements are fashioned; to mediation skills and their use in the mediation process, and the necessary pre-mediation procedures and activities. This knowledge base is accompanied by exercises of increasing complexity, which demonstrate the skills required of the beginning mediator.

A materials outline follows for your reference:

1. MEDIATION: ONE CHOICE AMONG MANY
2. THE PLACE OF COMMUNICATION IN MEDIATION
3. NEGOTIATION: THE PULSE OF MEDIATION
4. MEDIATION THEORY AND STRUCTURE: A COMPOSITE PICTURE
5. STRUCTURED MEETINGS
6. EMPOWERMENT, RECOGNITION AND OTHER MATTERS OF ENGAGEMENT
7. MEDIATION TECHNIQUES AND KNOWLEDGE
8. PREMEDIATION ACTIVITIES
9. PERSONAL JOURNAL
10. PARTICIPANT NOTES
11. APPENDIX
    • Mediation Reference Texts and Journals
    • Dispute Resolution Organizations
    • Mediation Insurance
    • Mediation Agreement - Sample 1
    • Mediation Agreement - Sample 2
    • Mediation Agreement - Sample 3
    • Assess for Success: A Streamlined Selection Guide For Mediation by Genevieve A. Chornenki
    • Short Glossary of Dispute Resolution Terms

Advanced Mediation:
Thinking and Techniques

THE ADVANCED 3-DAY PROGRAM FOR MEDIATORS.

This course builds upon Mediation Fundamentals to provide a comprehensive program for the effective mediator.

Content of ADVANCED MEDIATION: THINKING AND TECHNIQUES provides a review of the Fundamentals, which forms the basis of advanced material on language and culture; about the place of power and fairness in ethical mediation; and impasse, its analysis and approaches to unlocking impasse through mediation. Participants work through case examples of increasing complexity to develop a more sophisticated, differentiated approach to each mediation.

A materials outline follows for your reference.

1. YOU THE LEARNER
2. MEDIATION FUNDAMENTALS REVIEW
3. POST-MEDIATION ACTIVITIES
4. OTHER MEDIATION ACTIVITIES
5. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN MEDIATION
6. POWER, FAIRNESS AND MEDIATOR ETHICS
7. IMPASSE IN MEDIATION
8. PERSONAL JOURNAL
9. PARTICIPANT NOTES
10. APPENDIX
    • Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators
    • Ethical Standards of Professional Responsibility
    • AMIC Code of Ethics
    • Mediator Variation and Orientation by Genevieve A. Chornenki
    • Confidentiality & Mediation: A Secret System? by Genevieve A. Chornenki
    • Pondering Power: Power-Over or Power-With? by Genevieve A. Chornenki

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