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• Fall 2025 Basic Transformative Dialogue Training: Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?

  • Start
    September 01, 2025
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    December 31, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    online

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  Basic Transformative Dialogue Training:

  Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?

  Dates/Times: This training is fully asynchronous. Upon registration you will receive access to a Google Classroom with all reading, videos, and coursework.  You will have the option to set up a call with one of the trainers if you'd like to ask questions or talk about any of the material.  The materials will be available to you until December 31, 2025
  

  Commitment:  18 hour course (8 hours of video and approximately 10 independent reading and reflection hours)

  Cost:  Early bird $395USD by September 15, 2025

  Regular price - $475USD 

  
  

  Course Overview: This training provides participants with the basic understanding and skills to support people in communities and organizations in having meaningful and constructive conversations across differences; conversations that help change the quality of their interactions whether or not they agree at the end of the process.   

  Participants will:

  • Learn how the transformative understanding of conflict applies to group and community conflict
  • Gain a relational understanding of identity, race, ethnicity, culture and power, and learn how transformative facilitators respond to these differences
  • Understand how transformative dialogue is consistent with trauma-informed practice
  • Learn to organize a participant-driven dialogue process through one-on-one and small group meetings and conversations with community members
  • Learn the goals, roles and core skills of a transformative facilitator
  • Learn techniques for facilitating open conversations and options for structuring interactions transformatively that allow even very large groups to share ideas and make decisions

  Who the course is for:

  This training is for anyone interested in growing their skills and understanding of Transformative Dialogue.  Elements on this online training include expanded premises on identity and people in groups, incorporation of trauma-informed practice into the training, and centering discussions of race, culture and power in the training. Whether you are interested in organizing and facilitating conversations in your local community, or in your workplace or organization you belong to, or you are working in an area of ethnopolitical conflict, this training will be an excellent starting point for this work.

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• Cafe: Transformative Intervention in Uncertain Time 3.0

  • When
    December 18, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    On Line
  • Registered
    15 registrants

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• Advanced Transformative Mediation: Deepening Practice Through the Five Strategies

  • Start
    January 14, 2026
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  • End
    April 01, 2026
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  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    online
  • Spaces left
    11
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Course Overview:

  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.” 

  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. In this advanced training, you will deepen your learning about when and why to use these interventions and how the overall impact of the work helps to transform the quality of people's conflict interaction.

  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.

  The course includes four training sessions and four practice sessions, and a wrap up session, for nine sessions total. There is a possibility of a partial or half scholarship. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please fill out our form here, and we will be in touch!

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

  Course Dates/Times:

  • Four Training Sessions: January 14, 21, 28  & February 4

  • Four Coached Practice Session: Feb 25, Mar 4, 11, 18

  • Self-Evaluation Session: Mar 25 - Self-Evaluation! This is just a placeholder. No class will occur, but you should write your self-eval this week and get it in to the trainers in order to attend the concluding session.

  • Concluding Session: Apr 1

   *All 11:30 am- 2pm Eastern Time USA

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  A little more about each section of the course:

  Advanced Mediation Part 1:  Training Sessions

  Orienting Ourselves to the Five 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 Sessions 

  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.

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