Master Class in Transformative Mediation - With Joseph P. Folger and Judith Saul - ALMOST SOLDOUT

A Master Class in Transformative Mediation
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2 days of advanced training for mediators

Joseph P. Folger | Judith Saul


In collaboration with
Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation

 

 

12 and 13 June, 2013 | Roma, Centro Studi CTS - Via Albalonga 3

 

Transformative Practice:  Core Purpose and Key Challenges

This interactive workshop will provide an opportunity to explore the underlying premises of the transformative approach to mediation practice and to address the key challenges it raises in practice.  How does a mediators' underlying purpose shape his or her specific approach to practice during interventions?  What should a mediation process look like if we assume that conflict is a crisis in human interaction?  What third party role and interventions support the transformation of the parties' conflict from the bottom up? 

This workshop will address three types of challenges that transformative conflict intervention practitioners often face.  Specifically, it will cover:  Value challenges – when and why the core commitments of the model are difficult to sustain in practice; Cognitive challenges – the mental orientation and cognitive agility needed to perform the skills of a transformative practitioner; and Communication challenges – the communication skills a mediator needs to enact a transformative intervention.

 

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DAY ONE (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
 

Purpose Drives Practice: The Core Values of Transformative Practice

• Mediation as a Party Driven Process
• The Centrality of Human Dialogue in Mediation
   

What Does Mediation Look Like without Empowerment and Recognition as the Core

• Exercise#1:  Analyzing Diverse Mediation Practice
   

Sustaining Purpose: Key Value Challenges that Practitioners Face

• “Walking to the Cliff’s Edge” with Parties
• Preserving Party Self-determination in Power “Imbalance” Situations
• Mediating When Parties are Weak and Self-absorbed

                 - Exercise #2:  Illustrating Value Challenges in Practice 
 

Sustaining Practice: Mastering the Cognitive Challenges of Transformative Mediation

• Surviving Parties’ Ego-centric Speech Marathons
• Mediator Decision-making: When to Intervene
• Keeping the Mediator Intervention Switch On
• Tracking Multiple Micro-Levels

                  - Exercise #3:  The Cued Skill Exercise

DAY TWO (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.)


Sustaining Transformative Mediation Practice:  Communication Challenges

• Relying on Check-ins to Support Party Self-determination
• Mediator Presence and Communication Style
• Matching Emotional Expressiveness of the Parties

                   - Exercise #4:   Analysis of a Transformative Mediator’s Presence and
                     Communication Style

Transformative Mediation Clinic

• Exercise #5: Role Play Practice and Individualized Feedback

 

 

 

Joseph Folger

Professor of Adult and Organisational Development at Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder, Fellow and Board member of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation. He assisted with the design and delivery of the United States Postal Service REDRESS mediation program, and has conducted assessment and benchmarking research for mediation agencies. He has worked extensively as a third party intervener in organisational, community, court and small group disputes. Professor Folger has published extensively in the areas of communication and conflict, mediation, and third party intervention processes. His books include the award winning volumes, Working Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups and Organisations (7th edition, with M.S. Poole and R.K. Stutman) and The Promise of Mediation (with R.B. Bush, 1st and 2nd editions) as well as editing Designing Mediation: Approaches to Training and Practice within the Transformative Framework (with R.B. Bush), and Transformative Mediation: A Sourcebook (with R.B. Bush and D. Della Noce.)

Judith A. Saul

She has almost three decades of experience in mediation, facilitation and training. She is a Fellow and Board member of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, and through the Institute, a Certified Transformative Mediator ©. Ms. Saul founded and ran a community mediation centre for over 25 years, directing the centre's training of community volunteers and developing conflict education curricula for young people, adults and professionals. She has designed and implemented basic and advanced training for mediators as well as mediator coaching and assessment processes. She is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Law at Hofstra University, where she teaches mediation. She has trained transformative mediators internationally for the Institute and for the United States Postal Service’s REDRESS Program. In addition to her mediating interpersonal disputes, Ms. Saul facilitates organisational, multi-party, environmental and public participation processes. She is on the roster of the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Along with Institute colleagues, she developed Transformative Dialogue, applying the relational framework to dialogue and development processes in communities that have experienced ethnic and political conflict.

 

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Sede Centro Studi CTS, in via Albalonga 3

Max participants: 20