Basic Trainings will be conducted by Marko Iršič,  Certified Transformative Mediator, the founder of the RAKMO Institute, and the author of the books The Art of Conflict Management and Mediation.

This training program provides an understanding of the core purpose and foundational principles of transformative practice. In addition to exploring the goals and effects of transformative intervention, this training provides practice with the core transformative intervention skills. Through lecture, discussion, video illustrations, and skill building exercises, this training program grounds participants in an approach to mediation practice that is rooted in the assumption that conflict is a crisis in human interaction.

Transformative mediation is an approach to conflict intervention that is used in a wide range of conflict intervention settings. It is based upon the view of conflict outlined in the book The Promise of Mediation by Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger and it has been adopted in organizational, court, community and governmental settings. Transformative mediation has been used in family, neighbourhood, divorce, youth, multi-party disputes and has been adapted for conflict interventions that address team development and organizational disputes.

• Understand transformative conflict theory and the concepts of empowerment and recognition;

• See the relationship between a mediator’s underlying motivations and he interventions used in practice;

• Obtain the skills needed to focus on and attend to the moment-to-moment interaction of the parties and their deliberations;

• Gain the capacity to take a responsive, supportive orientation that fosters party empowerment and avoids mediator directiveness

• Understand the full range of conflict settings (commercial disputes, family and divorce, neighbor, victim-offender,organizational conflicts, ethno-political conflicts) where transformative mediation is currently practiced

BASIC TRAINING INFO

Program of the transformative mediation training.

The Organizer reserves the right to modify the program.