We offer both a Certificate Mediation Training course and sessions in advanced mediation training.
Certificate Mediation Training
Our 40-hour certificate mediation training courses, co-sponsored by the Labor Education Center at the University of Connecticut College of Continuing Studies, provide a comprehensive introduction to mediation and conflict management.
Designed for lawyers and nonlawyers alike and led by William Logue and Paddy Moore, experienced mediators and trainers, the course is based on experiential learning, providing each participant with many opportunities to practice mediation skills and receive feedback. It conveys to participants the following skills:
- Deeper understanding of mediation as a way to settle disputes in commercial and business affairs, divorce and child custody cases, employment relationships, union-management contracts, environmental matters, health care issues, public policy debates and other areas
- Ability to design and provide mediation services in a variety of settings
- Listening, reframing, defusing and containing emotions, and other communication skills
- Ability to manage interest-based negotiations between two or more parties
The Fall 2008 training course will be held Sept. 25, 26, 27, Oct. 3 and 4. Participants must attend all five days. To register, please print the PDF brochure and mail the completed form with payment.
For more information, please contact Jennifer Brown at the Quinnipiac Center on Dispute Resolution, 203-582-3246 or Mark Sullivan at the UConn Labor Education Center, 860-486-3417.
Advanced Mediation Training
Our two-day, 16-hour advanced mediation training program is highly interactive and designed for experienced mediators. At this workshop, participants:
- Explore with experienced colleagues such difficult areas of mediation as power imbalance, difficult communication styles, and institutional or structural barriers to resolution
- Integrate recent theoretical advances into practice
- Analyze, discuss and understand their own mediation styles
- Engage in advanced exercises and role plays
- Practice the management of multi-party and multi-issue disputes involving absent constituencies
- Use videotapes and simulations of micro-situations to observe and analyze skills and concepts
- Work closely with trainers William Logue and Paddy Moore
For more information, please call professor Jennifer Brown at the Quinnipiac Center on Dispute Resolution, 203-582-3246.