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.
If you want to be equipped to make a difference using mediation skills and restorative practices, this is the course for you.
The 5 Session Course
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.
Course Delivery & Dates – Autumn 2025
This course is delivered by 5 contact sessions (2 in-person and 3 online), supplemented with 3 x 1 hour webinars.
Course delivery and dates: Autumn 2025
- Day One at Thatcham Baptist Church: Friday 7th November, (9am – 5pm)
- Online Zoom Session: Friday 14th November,(9.30am-1pm)
- Online Zoom Session: Friday 21st November, (9.30am-1pm)
- Online Zoom Session: Friday 28th November, (9.30am-1pm)
- Final Day at Thatcham Baptist Church: Friday 5th December, (9am – 5pm)
- Webinars: 3 x 1 hour webinars to watch in your own time
Course Costs
£595 per person or £490 per person (when booking before 30th September 2025).
Please note: There is an additional 10% discount for SCBA Churches/Leaders.
Future Dates: Spring 2026 TBC
About Revd Joanna Williams B.A. Mth. & Our Bespoke Training
Revd Joanna Williams B.A. MTh.
Director for Reconciliation
Joanna is an experienced Trainer and Mediator in Faith, Community, Workplace & Intergenerational Mediation (25yrs). She is a Training Partner for Bridge Builders Ministries,
delivering the Mediating Interpersonal Conflicts Course (15+yrs). She also devised and delivered College of Mediators accredited Mediation Volunteers Training (25yrs), and is an experienced Mediator.
