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Professional Mediation Certificate Courses
Note: participants in these courses do not need to be enrolled in the Certificate program. Some prerequisites apply, please check each course description.
ED5285: Basic Professional Mediation Training
(4 CEUs)
Five days: March 12, 13, 14, 20 and 21, 2010,
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Dispute Resolution Center Training Room
2801 Lombard
Everett, WA
Tuition: $960
The basic course provides intensive 40-hour, hands-on learning to prepare you to be a neutral third-party mediator. You learn the eight-stage mediation model, conflict theory and styles, mediator communication skills, interest-based negotiations, collaborative problem-solving, the mediator's role and principles of conflict resolution.
Instructor: Kathy Rice
ED5288: Workplace Conflict Management (.6 CEUs)
Friday, March 26, 2010, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Antioch University Seattle
Tuition: $240
This course helps retool how you manage conflict in the workplace. You learn how to promote teamwork and cooperation. Key issues covered include conflict styles, identification of issues and interests, communication skills, negotiation techniques and the four-step conflict resolution process. Coworkers and subordinates exposed to this new approach will feel more included in the problem solving process and experience greater harmony and respect in the workplace — all of which lead to increased productivity. Instructor: Kathy Rice
ED5286: Family Mediation Training (3 CEUs)
Three days: May 14, 15 and 16, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Dispute Resolution Center Training Room
2801 Lombard
Everett, WA
Tuition: $720
Family Mediation training teaches mediators how to handle difficult family conflicts. Areas covered include dissolutions, the process of a property division and helping parents create effective parenting plans that will work for them and their children. (Prerequisite:
completion of the 40-hour Basic Professional Mediation training course)
Instructor: TBA
Click here for more on the Professional Mediation Certificate.
Advanced Mediation Trainings
These workshops are co-sponsored by Dispute Resolution Center of Snohomish and Island Counties, Seattle Federal Executive Board and Washington Mediation Association.
Transformational Conflict Coaching:
New Approaches to Preventing and Resolving Conflicts at Work and at Home
With Guest Facilitator Kenneth Cloke
Tuesday, March 16, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Antioch University Seattle, Room 100
Join with other professional mediators from the Puget Sound area in a dynamic one-day workshop with internationally renowned mediation expert Ken Cloke.
Every home and workplace generates chronic conflicts,
yet few mediators are proficient in innovative methods for learning how these conflicts are generated and reinforced; conducting "conflict audits" to discover where they come from; using personal coaching, feedback, dialogue, facilitation, strategic planning and similar process skills,
or designing complex, multi-layered, self-correcting systems to improve people’s capacity for conflict prevention, amelioration and resolution.
The aim of these methods, especially transformational coaching, is not merely to assist people in becoming more skillful and successful, but more authentic and capable. Transformational coaching is one of a number of new, intimate, interactive, mutually supportive processes for building relationships and improving people’s ability to respond successfully to conflicts at home and at work in transformational ways.
This workshop, based partly on personal coaching, facilitation, public dialogue, and conflict resolution systems
design principles, will identify ways people can use their conflicts as opportunities to promote personal, relational, and organizational learning and transformation. It will consider the subtle art of “waking people up,” and transforming the internal attitudes and external systems within which they interact, build relationships, and resolve their disputes.
Instructor:
Kenneth Cloke, J.D., Ph.D., is director of the Center for Dispute Resolution. He is a mediator, arbitrator, consultant, and trainer specializing in resolving multi-party conflicts and designing conflict resolution systems for organizations. Cloke is president of Mediators Beyond Borders, and author of Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution; The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution; Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism – How Mediators Can Save the Planet; plus (with Joan Goldsmith) Resolving Conflicts at Work: Eight Strategies for Everyone on the Job; and Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflicts: Stories of Transformation and Forgiveness.
Tuition:
$175, if registered by Feb. 19, 2010; $190 for registrations received after Feb. 19.
To register for advanced mediation workshops, use the online registration link at the top right corner of this page, or contact the Office of Extension and Continuing Education at 206-268-4111.
