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Professional Mediation Certificate Courses
Note: participants in these courses do not need to be enrolled in the Certificate program. Some prerequisites apply, please check each course description.
ED5285: Basic Professional Mediation Training
40 hour training
Monday through Friday June 18-22, 2012
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Dispute Resolution Center Training Room
2801 Lombard, Everett, WA
Tuition: $960
The basic course provides intensive 40-hour, hands-on learning to prepare you to be a neutral third-party mediator. You learn the eight-stage mediation model, conflict theory and styles, mediator communication skills, interest-based negotiations, collaborative problem-solving, the mediator's role and principles of conflict resolution.
Instructor: Kathy Rice
This course will also be offered August 13-17 and again Oct. 19, 20, 21, 27 and 28.
ED5286: Family Mediation Training (3 CEUs)
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 14-16, 2012
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Dispute Resolution Center Training Room
2801 Lombard, Everett, WA
Tuition: $720
Family Mediation training teaches mediators how to handle difficult family conflicts. Areas covered include dissolutions, the process of a property division and helping parents create effective parenting plans that will work for them and their children.
(Prerequisite:
completion of the 40-hour Basic Professional Mediation training course)
Instructor: Kathy Rice
ED5288: Workplace Conflict Management (.6 CEUs)
One day training. Date TBA
Location: Dispute Resolution Center Training Room
2801 Lombard, Everett, WA
Tuition: $240
Resolving Conflict in the Workplace training is intended to help people retool how they manage conflict at work. The key is knowing how to problem solve collaboratively with others by using a conflict resolution process that turns potentially destructive conflict into a positive working environment. This course will teach you theory and practical skills for accomplishing this turn around from destructive conflict to teamwork and cooperation with bosses, subordinates and colleagues. Key issues covered: conflict styles, identification of issues and interests, communication skills, and a four-step conflict resolution process.
Instructor: Kathy Rice
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Advanced Mediation Trainings
Three to four workshops are held at Antioch each year geared to the learning needs of experienced mediators and featuring nationally known presenters. These trainings are co-sponsored by the Dispute Resolution Center of Snohomish, Island and Skagit Counties, and the Washington Mediation Association.
Please visit this page for updates on future advanced mediation trainings or contact Debra Alderman in the Center for Continuing Education at 206-268-4111.
