Connecting transformative practitioners across the world
What: A virtual space to regularly gather, connect, and converse.
Who: Transformative practitioners who identify as members of the Black/African diasporic experience.
When: The 4th Friday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom on: 2/23/2024, 3/22/2024, 4/26/2024, 5/24/2024, 6/28/2024, 7/26/2024, 8/23/2024, 9/27, 2024, and 10/25/2024.
Hosts: Barbara Cockerman, Mia Bowers, Jerry Ming, and Cherise D. Hairston.
How to Participate: Register here, and receive reminders with the zoom link a few days before each of the scheduled sessions.
Conflict Within Interpersonal Relationships: A Practitioner’s Café Conversation
How do we navigate our own interpersonal conflicts as mediators? It can be challenging to bring our skills to the conversation when we are in the middle of it. Within family and community there can be political, religious, and other differences that lead to conflict. If there are deep ruptures, is there a need for conversation? Who starts it? And how do we keep it productive? Join this Cafe to talk this through with other transformative mediators and practitioners.
Register for a zoom link!
Coached Mediation Practice Group, with Carol Bloom.
A great opportunity to practice your mediation skills in small group setting with a coach. Three sessions allows for time to play the roles of both a mediator and a party in the mediation. Group is limited to six participants.
Tuesdays, November 19, December 3 & 17, 7-9 pm Eastern.
Zoom link sent after registration.
Trauma-Informed Transformative Mediation through the lens of Intimate Partner Violence and beyond, with Kristy Paranica and Susan Jordan
Audience: Transformative mediators, facilitators, case managers, program developers, and other interested practitioners
Key take-aways:
- expand your knowledge of trauma and trauma-informed mediation practice
- understand what trauma is in the context of Intimate Partner Violence and what to do if it shows up in the mediation room
- explore interventions helpful in minimizing the risk of retraumatizing parties
- learn how voice and choice are impacted and important when trauma shows up in the room
Zoom link will be sent after registration.
Mediation Ethics Discussion with Sharon Press
Join Mitchell Hamline School of Law Professor Sharon Press as she discusses the core ethical dilemmas facing all mediators. How do we deal with ethical guidelines that arise from different assumptions about the mediator’s role? What special dilemmas arise when we’re committed to the transformative approach? Dan Simon will also join the discussion.
Thursdays, December 5, 12, & 19, 1-3 pm Eastern.
INSIDE-OUT PRACTICE GROUP with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová
Would you like to practice your mediation skills but prefer to have an experience where you will analyze how mediation works rather than be the one who is under the pressure of being analyzed?
We do have a special practice session for you!
During this three hour session you will have the opportunity to see how mediators work and analyze their work - ask questions about their intentions, discuss their interventions, and have an opportunity to understand how they read the weaknesses and self-absorption of parties and why they offer specific interventions to the parties. You will have a chance to pause the mediation any time you will need, come back to specific situations, and analyze them in more detail.
prerequisite: basic transformative mediation training
Child Inclusive Mediation: A two part Workshop, with Robin Brzobohaty and Martina Cirbusová
This two part workshop will cover the following:
• What is the purpose of involving children in mediation?
• What is scientific evidence behind this practice?
• How to involve children in mediation - 18 different options will be introduced.
• How to provide feedback from the child to parents during mediation? Video sample.
• What techniques and tools are available?
There will also be discussion about: • Key hallmarks of good practice.
• Ethics of this particular practice.
• Guidelines for professionals interested in this type of mediation, including steps and how to get started.
January 24 & 31, both dates 9 am -12 pm Eastern.
Zoom link will be sent after registration!
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