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, community or work 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 workplace. 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 – Spring 2025
This course is delivered by 5 contact sessions (2 in-person and 3 online), supplemented with 3 webinars.
Dates: Spring 2025
- Day One at The Blackley Centre: Friday 14th March, (9am – 5pm)
- Online Zoom Session: Friday 21st March, (9.30am-1pm)
- Online Zoom Session: Friday 28th March, (9.30am-1pm)
- Online Zoom Session: Friday 4th April, (9.30am-1pm)
- Final Day at The Blackley Centre: Friday 11th April, (9am – 5pm)
- Webinars: 3 x 1 hour webinars to watch in your own time
Spring/Summer Costs
£495 per person or £445 per person (when booking before 31st January 2025).
Future Dates: Autumn 2024 TBC
About Joanna Williams & Our Bespoke Training
Revd Joanna Williams
Director for Reconciliation
Joanna Williams has over 25 years experience of devising, and delivering high quality training in and for churches, colleges, and other organisations. Training that is offered from The Blackley Centre is mainly bespoke, created to fit the needs and requirements of the particular client. Topics are wide ranging but
centre around the area of peace-building, communication, managing conflict and anxiety effectively and developing teams that work together well.
Joanna is an experienced Trainer/Training Partner for Bridge Builders Ministries, delivering the Mediating Interpersonal Conflicts Course (15+yrs). She is also a Trainer for Smile Mediation, devising and delivering College of Mediators accredited Mediation Volunteers Training (23yrs), and an experienced Mediator in Faith, Community, Workplace & Intergenerational Mediation (25yrs).
