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Professional Mediation Certificate Courses

ED5288: Workplace Conflict Management (.6 CEUs)
TBA
Class located at 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. Co-workers 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.
Instructors: Kathy Rice

ED5285: Basic Professional Mediation Training
(4 CEUs)
 Sept. 26 to 28 and Oct. 4 to 5, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
or
Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Class located at The Dispute Resolution Center: 2801 Lombard, Everett WA 98201
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.
Instructors: Kathy Rice

ED5287: Large Group Facilitation (2 CEUs)
Mon. through Wed., Oct. 20 to 22, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Tuition: $480
This course teaches assessment, problem definition, development of ground rules, agenda-building, brainstorming, group dynamics and the nuts and bolts of facilitating large groups.
Instructors: Kathy Rice

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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.

Save the date for upcoming advanced mediation workshops in 2009. More details about the following events will be posted here as soon as they become available:

Feb. 3, 2009
Guest presenter Joan Goldsmith returns to Seattle to offer a one-day advanced mediation workshop on divorce and family mediation.

April 1, 2009
Guest presenter Ken Cloke returns to Seattle to offer a one-day advanced mediation workshop on workplace conflict resolution.