The Next Stage:

Mediation and Negotiation Skills Course

in association with CCIG

 

Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 January 2009

(limited places, book early)

 

Have you completed initial mediation training? Conducted between 0 and 20 mediations? Want to get to the next level?

Need more tools? Wish to add some of the techniques which have developed in recent years? Learn from and watch some of the leading practitioners?

Wish to get up to date with what is happening at the leading edge in mediation practice? And refine your own skills as a mediator and negotiator?

 

This course is devised so that you will be able to use much of the material in everyday negotiation as well as in mediation, whether as adviser or mediator.

 

Testimonials

 

This course was first hosted last October and was very well received.

 

• “This was a hugely enjoyable and stimulating experience, delivered in an atmosphere of challenge and support.”

 

• “This was up amongst the very best courses I have taken part in over the last 20 years.”
• “I am sure your collective professionalism and ease helped each of the participants to achieve something somewhat better than each had thought imaginable.”
• “I had a great time on your course. I thoroughly enjoyed the company of my fellow attendees. I feel I have picked up a good deal that will be very useful, I would hazard a guess, forever. As well, I think, my confidence has had a little boost which is a good thing. I feel inspired to move forward with a much fuller heart than I had.”

 

Course Outline

 

The course is designed to bring participants up to date both in their personal skills and in the techniques used by experienced mediators, while exploring some new areas. These include:

 

·         What do we need to work on as mediators and negotiators?

·         What makes an effective mediator really effective?

·         How do we negotiate – and mediate - in difficult situations?

·         Breaking the logjam, saving face, the role of apology

·         What preparation techniques work well for parties, mediators and negotiators?

·         The opportunity to experience and practice skills as mediator, party and adviser in a full day of simulated multi-party mediation.

 

Participation and Certification

Participation in the course is open to those who have already completed a recognised mediation training course of at least 4 days’ duration. Participants will be asked to confirm that they have done so.

 

Completion of the Course entitles participants to receive the Core Certificate in Intermediate Mediation and Negotiation Skills.

 

John Sturrock QC, Scotland’s most experienced business mediator, will lead the course along with London-based   Bill Marsh, of Conflict Management International, one of Core’s panel of international mediators and a mediator with vast global experience. The team also includes Pamela Lyall, another mediator with wide experience and a superb coach.

 

Bill and John are recognised as two of the finest teachers of mediation in Europe. We will draw on the extensive experience which Bill, John and Pamela have gained in recent years as mediators and problem solvers.

 

View the course timetable here

 

Course Fee (includes course papers, refreshments and lunch):

1625 Swiss Francs or 995 Euros payable by 30 October 2008 (places are limited to a maximum of 16). Accommodation can be organised through the Geneva Chamber of Commerce. (This is an Early Bird discount. The fee will increase to 1775 Swiss Francs or 1095 Euros after 30 October)

For a registration form, please contact Laura Rutherford (laura.rutherford@core-solutions.com; 00 44 131 221 2520)

 

For online registration, click here

 

We hope to organise a special dinner for the Monday evening, with a guest speaker.

Details nearer the time!