Feb
16
3:30 PM15:30

Facilitator Certification Training, Salt Lake City March 3-4, 2020

Facilitator Certification Workshop

With Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith

·        Have you watched conversations, meetings and gatherings devolve into petty, destructive quarrels, each convinced their position is the right one?

·        Would you benefit from having deeper skills in designing, organizing and facilitating dialogues about difficult and hot-button “high risk” issues?

·        Do you want to learn techniques for mediating public policy disputes, facilitating organizational dialogues, meetings, teams, focus groups, strategic planning and organizational retreats?

·        Would you like to acquire solid and proven methods for helping groups build genuine consensus, reduce resistance and overcome impasse?

·        Would you like to find diverse approaches to facilitation that fit your personal style and boost your skills in helping groups experience synergistic, generative conflicts?

·        Are you searching for ways to stand with equanimity in the presence of people who are acting out of anger and fear, and taken strong adversarial positions that have eroded of trust and hope and forward movement?

·        Would you like those you teach or mediate or work with to learn from their differences and conflicts, without triggering defensiveness or hostility?

·        Are you interested in learning to design large and small group processes?

Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith, based in Santa Monica, California, are offering a Facilitator Certification Training in Salt Lake City.  Ken and Joan are authors of several groundbreaking books and train facilitators and mediators internationally.  They have each facilitated and mediated for over 40 years, honing their skills and learning from each group how to invite deeper conversations, authentic engagement, and creative, paradoxical problem solving. (Their CV’s and a book list are attached.)

Assisting with this course will be Barbara Barnes. Barb grew up in Salt Lake City and lives in Helena, Montana.  She has studied with Ken and Joan over the last several years, and has a successful facilitation and conflict resolution practice with clients from coast to coast.

The Course:

Over two days, participants will have opportunities to identify their strengths and areas for improvement.  They will practice facilitation techniques, role play conflict resolution skills, and learn to become more mindful and successful facilitators and conflict resolution practitioners.  Topics will include:

·      Introduction to facilitation of meetings and focus groups

·      The roles of facilitators in large and small groups

·      An overview and theory of conflict and resolution

·      A detailed analysis of workplace, organizational and public policy disputes

·      Creative techniques for facilitating meetings, dialogues, and dispute resolution conversations

·      Six forms of decision making and techniques for facilitating each

·      Ways to reach genuine consensus, and what to do if you are not successful

·      Overcoming bias, prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination

·      Reducing impasse and resistance

·      Using mindfulness and the energy of the group to deepen conversations

·      Identifying unspoken issues and surfacing them in ways that contribute to the dialogue and to meeting the needs of the group and its members

·      How to shift from monologues and debates to dialogues

·      Designing dialogues for hot topic issues (such as race, abortion, immigration, gun control, climate change, LGBTQ issues, and others)

·      Lessons from real-life facilitations and mediations, and what was learned

·      Ways of strengthening and diversifying leadership within groups

Classes are practical and highly interactive. They will begin at 9:30 am and end at 4:30 pm, and take place at the Junior League 526 E 300 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, Salt Lake City.  All participants will receive a Training Manual, handouts, and a Certification from the Center for Dispute Resolution.  A second Advanced Facilitator Training will be offered as a follow-up and an opportunity to deepen skills and connect with colleagues.

The cost for the program will be $500.00 for the entire two days. Contact Barbara Barnes at bbarneshelena@gmail.com to register or to raise any questions you may have. 

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11
6:30 PM18:30

Political Conflict, Dialogue and Mediation

Mediators Beyond Borders International will host a talk and book signing by Kenneth Cloke on Politics, Dialogue and the Evolution of Democracy: How to Discuss Race, Abortion, Immigration, Gun Control, Climate Change, Same Sex Marriage and Other Hot Topics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Haaren Hall Bldg, Room 630, 899 10th Avenue between 58th and 59th streets, New York City.

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Jun
21
to Jun 23

Conflict Resolution Consulting: Transforming Organizations Through Leadership, Teams, Coaching, Culture, Systems Design and Changing the Way We Change

Every workplace generates chronic conflicts, yet few organizations have rethought the way they work, or used conflict resolution skills and ideas to prevent and transform the sources of chronic conflict, or examined their organizational communications and “conflict cultures” to discover how their conflicts are generated and reduce their re-occurrence. Fewer still have integrated conflict resolution and coaching, trained leaders as mediators, used conflict resolution principles to inform their change processes, conducted “conflict audits” to reveal where these streams of conflict originate, or designed complex, multilayered, self-correcting systems to improve their capacity for conflict prevention, resolution, and transformation. This workshop will provide a framework for mediators who would like to enter the emerging field of conflict resolution consulting, and learn how to integrate mediation with organizational communication, coaching, team building, leadership development, change management, and conflict resolution systems design. For more information, click here, or contact Lori.Rushford@pepperdine.edu.

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Mar
2
to Mar 18

Conflict Resolution Systems Design

This six day course will be taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas over two weekends, from Friday March 2, 2018 to Sunday March 4, 2018, and again from Friday March 16, 2018 to Sunday March 20, 2018.  It concentrates on chronic organizational conflicts using the methods of conflict resolution systems design.  Students will participate in analyzing and designing models for responding to systemic conflict by designing interest-based conflict resolution systems.  They will examine the relationship between conflict, leadership and organizational change, and the role of systems in couples, families and social, economic and political systems.  They will learn the sources chronic conflict and the disruptions that accompany phase transitions.  They will discover how facilitation, negotiation, dialogue, and similar conflict resolution skills can be adapted to meet the needs of large-scale systemic change projects, as well as to personal, familial, social, economic, political and environmental conflicts.  They will consider conflict as a system, the emotional and systemic sources of resistance to change, and methods to overcome them.  They will learn how to be the change they want to see in the world, and how to change the way they seek to resolve, transform and transcend the personal, organizational and social conflicts that impact their lives. 

For more information, contact SMU in Plano TX.

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Feb
20
to Feb 24

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Oct
6
to Oct 8

Mediators Beyond Borders International Congress

Mediators Beyond Borders International will host its 8th Congress at the Peace Palace in the Hague, Netherlands — the International City of Peace and Justice.

"As a celebration of our 10th anniversary we sincerely hope you can join us to work on concrete issues that can contribute to peace. The essence of this working conference is to have an open debate, to engage and encounter and to develop steps that may bring a contribution to peace with a diverse group that usually does not connect."

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Jun
22
to Jun 25

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