Prerequisite: Basic Mediation
This training seminar provides people, who have taken a basic mediation training, the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and practice skills to improve mediator effectiveness. We will use simulations, small group exercises, and concept presentations based on realistic problems to provide an intensive, practice-oriented experience. Topics covered include: Tools for analyzing the dispute and selecting the best interventions; Dealing with resistance and gaining commitment to constructive negotiation; Mediating multi-party disputes; Ethical dilemmas; Strategies for balancing power; Techniques for breaking impasses; Reframing; Assessing mediator competency; and Mastering the "inner mediator". Journal or reflective papers will be required. This course will be graded on a CR/C- ,D +, D, D-, F basis.
Basic Mediation is a prerequisite for Advanced Mediation. And, as such, must be taken in a prior semester. Basic Mediation cannot be taken in the same semester as Advanced Mediation.
The course will be scheduled for two days, all day Friday and Saturday. See schedule for exact times. Attendance during all scheduled class time is mandatory. There will be no exceptions to the attendance requirement.
If you have a conflict with another course that meets on Friday, you will have to make arrangements with the professors to miss those classes that conflict with the Friday that Advanced Mediation is scheduled. If those arrangements cannot be made, you will not be able to take Advanced Mediation. These arrangements must be made at the very start of the semester, so that another course can be scheduled if you are unable to get the excused absences that are necessary to attend Advanced Mediation.