Paths of Peace: Handling Conflict Well (5 Session Course)

What can you do when relationships become strained?

Do you want to help but are concerned about how, anxious not to make things worse?

Learn, develop and enhance mediative peace-making skills that can be used both formally and informally in situations of conflict between individuals, in a church, or community setting.

This exciting and innovative course uses mediative and restorative processes to help participants develop and enhance peacemaking skills to transform broken and strained relationships, in faith communities, families or workplaces.

Central to any such process is careful, respectful listening which builds understanding, enabling those struggling with difference to find ways forward that bring life and reconciliation.

Central to the course is training in a Transformative Mediation Process with plenty of opportunity to practice process delivery, developing and embedding personal skills of peacemaking. However, it has been broadened from a straight-forward mediation skills training to equip people in leadership positions to use these skills in their particular context.

If you want to be equipped to make a difference using mediation skills and restorative practices, this is the course for you.

Course Delivery

The course is delivered over 5 sessions, usually on consecutive Fridays (where this is possible). The first and last sessions are full days at the Centre, whereas sessions 2,3 & 4 are from 9:30am-1pm and are held on zoom.

As well as the 5 training sessions, there will be 3 hour long webinars to watch in your own time.

The sessions are a mixture of teaching, interaction and group work. As we progress through the training there will be the opportunity to practise the skills you have learned in a safe environment.

Full training manuals are provided and lunch is provided on days 1 and 5.