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Good Shepherd Mediation Program offers a variety of training programs for mediators,
attorneys, youth, and adults. Click on the programs listed below for more information.
- Multi-Party Mediation and Group Facilitation
This workshop will prepare
mediators for the challenges of facilitating and mediating multi-party disputes in
a community setting..
- Representing
Your Client In Mediation
The goal of this training
is to prepare attorneys to effectively represent their clients when mediation is
a settlement option.
- Divorce & Custody Mediator
Training - (Offered every other year)
This five-day workshop
walks participants through the process of divorce and custody mediation from the
orientation session to the completed memorandum of understanding..
- Youth Mediator
Training
The Youth Mediator Training prepares teens to facilitate the mediation
process. It offers participants the opportunity to enhance
their communication, conflict resolution, problem solving, writing,
and decision making skills.
- Mediation: Untangling
the Knot
Conflict is like a knot.
We get so tangled up in what we want; we forget why it is important to us. This orientation
features a 19-minute video demonstrating a lively neighborhood dispute that finds
its way to mediation.
- Basic Mediation Training
This 24-hour training
prepares individuals to mediate family and neighborhood issues. It is a practical,
interactive, hands-on workshop.
- Victim Offender Conferencing
Training
All participants must agree
to volunteer to complete the VOC apprenticeship and mediate a minimum of three VOC
cases over the next two years. The course includes: Introduction to restorative justice
principles; guest speakers; victim offender mediation process; the role of the mediator;
confidentiality; the victim's experience; the offender's experience, and VOC simulations.
- Peer
Mediation
When students are
involved in a dispute, they are asked if they would like a mediator to help them
resolve their problem. If the disputants so choose, the mediators help them by using
the mediation process to clarify the nature of the dispute, seek options, and reach
a consensus on a mutually satisfactory solution.
- Communication
and Conflict Resolution
Participants learn communication
and conflict management skills and develop an understanding that (1) conflict is
normal; (2) how we deal with conflict determines the outcome; and (3) there are positive
ways to handle conflict.
- Face
to Face: Building Relationships in a Diverse Community
In this three-hour workshop,
participants will reflect on their personal identity, discuss inter-group relations
and communicate about what we can do to build relationships in a diverse community.
- Putting
Out the Fire: Dealing Effectively with Anger
Participants learn: (1)
anger is a feeling and feelings are okay; (2) anger is okay; (3) abuse and violence
are not okay; (4) constructive ways to handle your own anger; (5) constructive ways
to deal with other people's anger; and (6) anger rules keep everyone safe.
- Meeting
Facilitation
Based on your experience
attending meetings, WHAT WORKS? and WHAT DOESN'T? Join us for this interactive workshop
and learn how to facilitate meetings and build consensus not tension.
- Partnering
in the New Millenium: Effective Collaboration-Building for Community Empowerment.
How to link private,
public and not-for-profit organizations for a shared purpose and meet community needs
through collaborative efforts.
- From Conflict
to Cooperation: Making Peace at Home a Parenting Education Workshop
Participants learn to (1) use
a variety of conflict management strategies to increase parenting effectiveness;
(2) analyze the situation to determine which conflict management style is most appropriate
at that given time; (3) identify cooling off strategies; (4) choose consequences
that are reasonable, respectful and related to the undesirable behavior; (5) use
self-talk to conquer self-defeating messages; and (6) hold family meetings to solve
problems and prevent conflict situations through planning.
Advanced Training for Mediators:
- CONFLICT Coaching:
Helping Disputants Prepare To Address Conflict Constructively When Mediation Is Declined
The goal of this training
is to prepare mediators and conflict managers how to use conflict resolution skills
to "coach" people experiencing conflict when mediation or litigation is
not the answer.
- Volunteer Gatherings
Volunteer Mediator
Gatherings are designed to offer Good Shepherd Mediaton Program's volunteer mediators
an opportunity to enhance their mediatior skills, network with staff and volunteers,
and develop a better understanding of our conflict resolution programs and services.
- Mediating Disability-Related
Disputes - (Offered every other year)
This interactive training
provides experienced mediators an opportunity to advance their skill in handling
cases that involve issues with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in regards
to employment, public accomodation, and housing. This three-day training follows
the recommended curriculum from the "ADA Mediation Guidelines" and will
result in certification from the Good Shepherd Mediation Program.
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