Five days of hands-on practice for anyone who wants to help others resolve conflict more peacefully — and the first step toward becoming a certified mediator.
This five-day training course is for anyone who wants to help others solve conflicts more peacefully, build relationships, strengthen professional skills, or become a certified mediator. The concepts and skills taught are easily transferable and are designed to improve communication in all settings.
This intensive training integrates lectures, presentations, demonstrations, as well as coached mediation role plays. Completing this training is the first step to becoming a certified mediator and helping your community resolve conflict.
Neutral Ground is accepting practicum students. Mediator positions are available.
The full arc of a mediation session, from opening statement to written agreement.
Identify your own default responses to conflict — and recognize others’.
Reframing, summarizing, and questioning techniques that de-escalate.
Move parties past fixed positions to the interests underneath them.
Practice live scenarios with feedback from certified mediators.
One page with the dates, tuition, and registration details — ready to print or forward to a colleague.
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Executive Director, Neutral Ground DRC