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.
- This course will have a consecutive translation into Japanese
L'intenzione, l'arte e il mestiere della mediazione
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
We will have assistants accompanying us during this course.
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
Okinawa, Japan
Address: HAMACHŪ (Hamahiga Island Community Center) 19 Katsuren Hama, Uruma City, Okinawa 904-2315
Times/Dates
21-24 April 2026
Fee
Early Bird: ¥76,800
Regular: ¥96,000
Okinawa residents / Under 30: ¥57,600
OPTION: Join both workshops in Okinawa (7 days total, with 1 day off in between):
Early Bird: ¥107,520
Regular: ¥134,000
Okinawa residents: ¥80,640
Language
Yoram speaks English and there will be a consecutive translation into Japanese
Organizer
Organizing Team in Japan:
Yukari Tatsumura, Makiko Imai, Hisae Yamahata & Maki Nakamura
yoram26.nvc.japan@gmail.com
To book your place
To book your place and if you have any questions please contact our organizing Team in Japan:
Yukari Tatsumura, Makiko Imai, Hisae Yamahata & Maki Nakamura
yoram26.nvc.japan@gmail.com