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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
(4 CEUs)
Five days: June 21 through 25, 2010
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
ED5288: Workplace Conflict Management (.6 CEUs)
Friday, July 16, 2010
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
ED5286: Family Mediation Training (3 CEUs)
Three days: May 14, 15 and 16, 2010
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: TBA
Click here for more on the Professional Mediation Certificate.
Advanced Mediation Trainings
These workshops are co-sponsored by Dispute Resolution Center of Snohomish and Island Counties, Seattle Federal Executive Board and Washington Mediation Association.
Advanced mediation workshops are held approximately three times per year. Watch this page for information about the fall 2010 workshop.
To register for advanced mediation workshops, use the online registration link at the top right corner of this page, or contact the Office of Continuing Education at 206-268-4111.
