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 – Spring 2026

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: Spring 2026

• Day One at The Blackley Centre: Friday 24th April  (9am – 5pm)
• Online Zoom Session: Friday 1st May (9.30am-1pm)
• Online Zoom Session: Friday 8th May (9.30am-1pm)
• Online Zoom Session: Friday 15th May (9.30am-1pm)
• Final Day at The Blackley Centre: Friday 22nd May (9am – 5pm)
• Webinars:  3 x 1 hour webinars to watch in your own time

Course Costs

£545 per person or £495 per person (when booking before 31st March 2026).

Course delivery and dates: Autumn 2026

• Day One at The Blackley Centre: Friday 9th October  (9am – 5pm)
• Online Zoom Session: Friday 16th October May (9.30am-1pm)
• Online Zoom Session: Friday 23rd October (9.30am-1pm)
• Online Zoom Session: Friday 6th November (9.30am-1pm)
• Final Day at The Blackley Centre: Friday 13th November (9am – 5pm)
• Webinars:  3 x 1 hour webinars to watch in your own time

Course Costs

£545 per person or £495 per person (when booking before 11th September 2026).

About Revd Joanna Williams B.A. Mth. & Our Bespoke Training