Mediator
Mediator is both the name of a profession and a crucial role in life and society. My wish is that all human beings on this planet acquire the skill to mediate.
This course is designed for those of you who want to learn mediation as a life skill and/or aim to have it as a profession.
→ The courses will be held online with Zoom. Online sessions will be recorded and made available for participants to view (not to download) until 3 weeks after the course is over.
Mediation is a fundamental social skill
If you spend time with children, friends, colleagues, or in any kind of meeting or gathering, then you surely have some mediation skills already.
Conflict is not necessarily when two or more people shout at each other. There are many scales (small to large) of challenges, misunderstandings, tensions and unspoken frustration whenever there is cooperation between people.
Mediation in daily life
Mediation as a practice in daily life is based on the assumption that the structure of two is not enough. When two people are stimulated they are less available to Empathize, to see the beauty in one another. The mediator is simply a third party who is not stimulated and has the skills to help create connection, cooperation and creativity to discover and meet everyone’s needs.
My dream
I wish mediation was a basic life skill that was taught in schools starting at the age of 3… I dream of a world where all human beings have mediation skills to support understanding, cooperation and connection when conflicts, misunderstandings or differences in opinion arise.
The Intention, Art and Craft of Mediation
You will learn:
❀ How to enjoy conflict – staying centered when a conflict becomes heated
❀ The role of mediator – what a mediator is actually responsible for, and how to make it fun and meaningful rather than feel like a stressful job
❀ Mediation structure: pre-mediation, mediation, post mediation
❀ The 5 Movements of Passing a Message – the basic rhythm of a mediation
❀ The practice of Interruption that Brings Connection
❀ Deepening Empathic skills – Empathy as the bread and butter of mediation
❀ How to lead dialogue towards sustainable agreements
❀ Going beyond a ‘NO’ – how to continue when one or both parties don’t agree to a suggestion
❀ “Instead of going to court, shall we go deeper?” – when a conflict seems stuck we can always go one layer deeper until connection and cooperation naturally surface
❀ How to be impartial
❀ Self-connection and self-expression as a mediator
❀ How to go beyond concepts of fairness and how to free a dialogue from demands to encourage free choice
❀ Inner mediation – mediating a conflict between different voices within one person
❀ How to facilitate a Healing Dialogue
❀ Group mediation
❀ And more…
This course will
Give you skills, tools, experience, clarity and competence to lead professional mediations as well as initiate day-to-day mediations in many life situations.
Learning style
You will be invited to work on examples from your own life in an interactive and safe learning environment. We will practice Nonviolent Communication through demonstrations, role-play and exercises in order to integrate NVC values and language more into our daily lives.
The way we teach is: 30% Theory and 70% of Practice/Demonstration/Learning from LIVE situations that are happening in the here and now. Our focus is very much on the Embodied aspect of ‘Nonviolent Communication’, so be ready to dive.
Extra support
Assistants: We will have about assistants accompanying us during this course. They’ve already completed the Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Year Courses with us and some are engaged in their steps toward teaching/sharing NVC.
Desired amount of Experience
I find it very helpful if people joining this program have already acquired a base in understanding the 4 Steps (of NVC) and Empathy. We ask that you have a minimum of 100 hours previous NVC training before joining. If you have questions or doubts about how your level of experience fits this course you’re welcome to share this with us and we can figure it out together.
Where
ONLINE
Times/Dates
Time (Amsterdam: CET TIME ZONE):
Saturdays : 15:00-21:00
Sundays: 15:00-21:00
❀ There will be 15 minutes break every 1.5 hours. and one longer break of 45 minutes at around 18:30 CET time.
Dates:
18-19 January 2025
15-16 February 2025
15-16 March 2025
12-13 April 2025
10-11 May 2025
14-15 June 2025
Fee
For this course, the fee is a choice of between €1150 – €2300
→ The choice of fees depends on your income and free will. The idea behind a sliding scale is that we all have different current financial situations, and we like to be flexible so that your financial contribution fits your financial situation as well as your personal wish to support us.
→ When paid by a business, it is the highest fee on the scale
→ Invoices are Vrijgesteld (VAT free).
❤ Regarding Money
We wouldn’t want money to prevent anyone from learning NVC! We see money as a strategy to care for the sustainability of our giving. It’s important for us to have a sense of mutual contribution. ‘Receiving’ supports us in meeting our practical stability (money), as well as supports us emotionally to be in balance and keep our hearts open to more giving. While we stand firmly for our need of mutual contribution, we’re flexible about possible strategies on how to meet this need. Money is our preferred strategy, as it’s easy for us to transfer it to the exact things that contribute to us. That being said, if the amount we ask would prevent you from joining, we can offer the following:
1. If you’re coming from a country where the income/currency is lower than the prices in euros, we’re open to finding a price that makes sense and keeps hearts open.
2. If you’re currently having a challenging period financially, you can pay us at a later date when your finances are better. Sometimes people even pay us a few years later.
3. We’re open to brainstorming other ways you can contribute to us, though it’s not always easy to find things that both you would enjoy contributing and that would actually be contributing to us.
Language
The main spoken language in the course will be English. Small group work can be held in English or in other languages (if your exercise partner speaks your language). Translation may be available if at any moment one wishes to express oneself in their own language.
Materials
At the end of each session you will receive a written summary of the last session. Other handouts will be provided, depending on the learning theme.
The online sessions will be recorded and be available for participants to view (not for download) until 3 weeks after the course is over.
Extra support
Assistants: We will have about 10 assistants accompanying us during this course. They’ve already completed the Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Year courses with us and are engaged in their steps toward teaching/sharing NVC.
To book your place
To book your place, simply follow the 3 steps below.
If you have any questions please contact us at:
info@connecting2life.net
1. Read the Terms & Conditions (Many of us never read ‘Terms & Conditions’… and, we would recommend you to read this one to be sure we’re together and on the same page).
2. Fill in the form below.
3. Complete the €200 non-refundable prepayment (To see the complete course fee click on the blue tab ‘Practical information’).
Regarding the remainder of the payment: We ask that you pay the remainder of the course fees within a week of finishing the course. We suggest you pay at the end because we like people to know what they’re paying for. We do this because we wish for your payment to be more connected to gratitude rather than to a sense of duty. If you prefer to pay earlier this is also welcome.
❀ ‘The regret period’: We process a refund for your prepayment only if the cancellation occurs within 14 days from the date you made the prepayment, and if your cancellation request is made at least 5 working days before the course officially begins.
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