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Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation

Connecting transformative practitioners across the world


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    • November 19, 2024
    • December 17, 2024
    • 3 sessions
    • online
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    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.


    • December 05, 2024
    • December 19, 2024
    • 3 sessions
    • online
    • 1
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    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.

    Thursdays, December 5, 12, & 19, 1-3 pm Eastern.

    Zoom link sent after registration.

    • January 08, 2025
    • February 12, 2025
    • 4 sessions
    • ONLINE

    Assessor 4 module Training- Closed Training

    1. January 08, 2025, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    2. January 15, 2025, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    3. January 29, 2025, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    4. February 12, 2025, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM


    • January 10, 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • online
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    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

    • January 24, 2025
    • January 31, 2025
    • 2 sessions
    • online
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    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!

    • January 29, 2025
    • March 15, 2025
    • 6 sessions
    • online
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    Basic Transformative Dialogue Training:

    Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?

    A combined training with both virtual  and  in-person (Brno, Czech Republic) learning


    Take the joint virtual/in-person training,  join the in-person training if you have a had Transformative Dialogue training previously or take the virtual only component!  


    For those planning to travel to the Czech Republic for the in person training, please note we need a minimum number of people enrolled to go forward with the training.  We fully expect to reach that!  We will let you know when we have .  Please don't make any non-refundable travel plans until we confirm with you. 


    Training Details:
    1. January 29, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST virtual
    2. February 5, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST virtual
    3. February 12, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST virtual
    4. February 19, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST Virtual
    5. February 26, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST Virtual
    6. March 12-15, 2025 In person training In Brno, Czech Republic

    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 a significant revision of earlier trainings in transformative dialogue, so even if you have taken an earlier training there is much to learn here. New elements 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.

    Virtual Component:

    This component has self guided learning that includes watching videos and reading materials, and five virtual live meetings to engage and discuss with the trainers and the other students.  Meetings will be recorded. 

    In Person Component:

    Take what you've learning in the virtual component and dive deeper into the application and the practice with Transformative Fellow and Dialogue Practitioners, Judy Saul.




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