Learn Facilitative Mediation to Empower Others Resolve Conflict
Mon, Oct. 19, (in person) 8:30-4:30 pm - High Foundation Lancaster
Tue, Oct. 20 (in person) 8:30-4:30 pm - High Foundation Lancaster
Thur, Oct. 22 (online) 1-5 pm - Zoom
Thur, Oct. 29 (online) 1-5 pm - Zoom
Mon, Nov. 2 (in person) 8:30-4:30 pm - Lancaster Bar Association
Tue, Nov. 3 (in person) 8:30-4:30 pm - Lancaster Bar Association
This highly-sought interactive training equips you to learn and apply the Facilitative Mediation Model with a co-mediator in a range of disputes including neighbors, workplaces, families. landlord-tenants, and more. Using high-impact experiential and simulation learning methods, Advoz trainers guide you and your cohort to understand conflict dynamics, what situations work or don't work for mediation, and how to successfully facilitate conflicted parties through the process. Experience the deep learning and effective practice of Advoz's highly rated training methods.
After an introduction of the major frameworks and skills, trainees will practice effective conflict resolution skills using the Facilitative Mediation Model along with legal and ethical considerations for using the process in Pennsylvania with the schedule:
- Day 1: Intro to Mediation: Conflict, Communication & Culture - Mon, Oct. 19: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm (in person) prerequisite*
- Personal and Interpersonal Conflict Dynamics
- Conflict and Harm Impact and Process
- The Legal, Mediation and Restorative Paradigms
- Working with Bias & Mainstream-Margin Dynamics (Ethics 2 hr)
- Facilitative Listening: Practicing Mindful, Empathic and Reflective Listening
- Day 2: Basic Mediation - Tue, Oct. 20: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm (in person)
- Understanding the Spectrum of Mediation Models
- Understanding How a Conflict Gets to Mediation
- Observing Facilitative Mediation
- Practicing Basic Skills
- Setting Up a Mediation
- Day 3 (two half-days): Thu, Oct 22 & Thu, Oct. 29: 1-5 pm (Live virtual via Zoom)
- Practicing the Seven Mediation Stages as Mediator and Participant
- Listening for Needs/Interests vs. Positions
- Applying Mediator Skills
- The Pre-Mediation Session: If, When and How
- Learning and Using Virtual Mediation
- Day 4: Mon, Nov. 2: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (in person)
- Confidentiality (Ethics 1 hr)
- Co-Mediation Tips and Tricks
- Getting to Facilitated Agreements
- Advance Mediator Skills
- Full Practice (I) the Mediation Process as Mediator and Participant
- Day 5: Tue, Nov. 3: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm (in person)
- Mediation and Mediator Standards in Pennsylvania (Ethics 1 hr)
- Full Practice (II) the Mediation Process as Mediator and Participant
- Integrating Knowledge and Skills
- Ongoing Reflective Practioner Tools
* The eight-hour course, Intro to Mediation: Conflict, Communication & Culture (CCC), is required for the 40-hour Basic Mediation Training certification. If you have taken Advoz's CCC course in the past five years, you may begin on Day 2.
** Training fee includes facilitated instruction by Advoz's experienced trainer-facilitator team, manuals and worksheets (100+ pages), plus lunch, coffee and other refreshments/snacks.
CLEs are available for attorneys, which include a total of 32 substantive and 4 ethics credits (7 CLE hours with 2 ethics hours for Day 1 Intro to Mediation: Conflict, Communication & Culture). CEUs are available for social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists. Please make the appropriate additional selection below.
Registration deadline is Monday, October 5th.
Before August 24, reduced rates and scholarships may be available for volunteers and members of the Lancaster Bar Association and/or the PA Council of Mediators. Contact advozadmin@advoz.org for membership discounts or click this link for scholarship information.
