Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Professional Mediation Course (Gishur)- Mastering Useful Skills and a Way of Life


Course Starts: After Pesach 2012

For further inquiries please e-mail mintz@lander.ac.il

Date and Time: Monday’s , 5:00-9:00 pm

Academic Hours:  72

Length:  Once a week for 12 weeks

Instructor: Liora Bar Selah of the Gevim Group

Cost: 3800 + 200 Nonrefundable Registration Fee.

Payment by Cash, Check or Credit Card. All fees must be paid up to one week before the course starts. If paying by Credit Card, tuition may be paid in installments of no less than 250 /month for a maximum of 10 months.  If paying by check, checks must be paid in advance and can be postdated until the course completion date. Cash – tuition must be paid in full before the course begins. (For exceptions please call our office)


This course provides hands-on tools and skills for conflict resolution. It enables a better understanding of the mediation process as well as mastering it as a managerial tool and a way of life. Participants will be certified as mediators by the Lander Institute as well as the Gevim Group in accordance with the recommendations of the “Gadot” Committee.


Training Objectives

Provision of applicable tools and skills for professional conflict management.

Understanding mediation and internalizing it as a managerial tool and a way of life.

Strengthening the awareness to the organizational, social and national implications of mediation in Israel.

Developing awareness to and endowment of a different point of view to conflicts

Exposing participants to the hidden potentials of mediation and to its transformative facets.

Training and authorizing professional mediators (including diploma).

Syllabus (12 meetings)

Program
session Main topics

1

Introduction

  • Introduction
  • Recognizing individual reactions to situations involving conflict and negotiation.
  • The win-win approach – theory and reality.
  • The ADR approach
  • Conflict resolution models
  • Defining mediation.

2

Introduction to mediation

  • Alternative approaches to conflict apprehension.
  • Elements of integrative negotiation
  • The mediator’s role – qualities and complexity.
  • Basics of mediation
  • Mediation process overview.

3

The preparation stage

  • Preparation stage overview.
  • Studying and experiencing an integrative model of conflict analysis.
  • Parameters of understanding conflicts – origins, dynamics, styles, and more.
  • Mapping conflicts in light of the model.

4

Completion of the preparation stage, the orientation stage

  • Completion of the preparation stage – parties recruitment.
  • Resistance to mediation
  • Making arrangements for the mediation session.
  • The orientation stage – studying and training
  • Mediation process demonstration/illustration video.
5

The topics and needs identification (listening) stage

  • The topics and needs identification/listening stage – description and training.
  • Listening skills – studying and training.
  • Shifting from blocking to fostering messages in conflict situations.
  • The role of empathy in disputes
  • Unguided simulation and its analysis.
6

The renewed definition and negotiation stages

  • The Reframing stage – explanation.
  • Illustration video.
  • Co-mediation – advantages and risks.
  • Guided simulation.

7

The negotiation stage

  • Encouraging a dialogue and finding alternatives.
  • Creativity in finding solutions
  • Guided simulation.
8

Dealing with obstacles

  • Unguided simulation.
  • Dealing with obstacles.
  • Caucusing.
  • Guided simulation
9

The agreement stage

  • Working towards an agreement.
  • Guided simulation
  • The agreement finalizing stage.
10

The mediator’s place – different views

  • Mediation styles – the Riskin Model – studying and discussion
  • Ethical dilemmas in mediation.
  • Guided simulation
11

Approaches in Mediation

  • Problem-solving & Transformative Mediation.
  • Applying the ADR approach in society.
  • Simulation

12

Summary

  • Summarizing guided simulation
  • The development of mediation in Israel and abroad – past, present and future.
  • Feedback, summary, farewell.

Gevim Group

Gevim Group, whose vision is “To improve internal and external cooperation between organizations, communities and families,” was established in 1996, and consists of a highly qualified team of a 100 professionals.

The Group is a market leader in the areas of Conflict Resolution, Mediation and Negotiation. Gevim offers its services to four main sectors:

-       Commercial Companies

-       Governmental Organizations

-       Schools and Academic Institutions

-       Communities and Non-Profit organizations

Main Tools & Applications

Processes:

  • Interface Junctions – Analyzing and improving internal and external interfaces in organizations, with an emphasis on empowering collaboration.
  • Conflict Resolution and Mediations – legal cases, business conflicts, managerial and intra-organizational conflicts and community mediations, mainly based on the transformative approach.
  • Consensus Building Processes – long-term multi party decision making processes involving strategic issues.
  • CMC- Conflict Management Coaching for top executives, dealing with challenging issues, entering a new position, change management etc.
  • Organizational Development
  • Multi-Cultural and Integration Processes – On the basis of effective communication when dealing with different organizational cultures and languages.

Training:

These range from short-term workshops aimed at providing advanced communication and negotiation skills to comprehensive long term professional courses with implementing and supervision programs. All programs are “tailor made” and include unique activities and mentoring work for the establishment of a dialogue-based organizational culture.

  • Interface Management – Understanding organizational Interfaces and means of improving their dynamics and flow.
  • Integrative Negotiation – Effective tools for managing dialogues inside organizations and their surroundings.
  • Conflict Management – Emphasis on organizational Mediation with powerful techniques on transformative processes and a “Med-Arb” model designed especially for managers.
  • Feed Forward – A new evaluation and feedback tool based on appreciative inquiry approach, creating a significant and empowering encounter.
  • Challenging Conversations – A model based on 3 dimensions that appear in every difficult conversation. Understanding how this provides stronger control in these situations.
  • 5 Stones Model – Designed for Call Centers, this model offers an effective and quick process for dealing with angry customers.
  • TOP – Transformative Outdoor Processes – Powerful tools for experimental learning by Outdoor and Adventure Therapy.
  • Coaching for Managers – Training managers to be tutors and coaches of their workers, in order to improve results. Based on the GROW model.

Our organizational customers include:

INTEL                    STARHOME               ECI                  YES                 BMC                NDS    ORANGE          HAZERA – NIKERSON               CELLCOM                  FEDEX         POALIM   BANK        DISCOUNT BANK      IDF        GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

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  • Refund after 1st session - 75%, after second session- 50%. No refunds will be given for cancellation after 3rd session.
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