The Next Stage: Mediation and Negotiation Skills Course

Edinburgh

Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 September 2008

Optional further full day mediation workshop

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

limited places, book early

 

For whom?

 

·         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.

 

What they say

 

The 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

 

Days 1 and 2

1 and 2 September (CPD: 15 hours)

 

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, making offers

·         What does NLP bring to mediation negotiation and business relationships?

·         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.

 

Day 3

3 September (CPD: 7 hours)

 

On the optional day three, participants have an opportunity to experience and practice skills as mediator, party and adviser in a full day of mediation using one multi-party case study.

Participation and Certification

Participation in the course is open to those who have already completed a recognised mediation training course of at least 5 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.

Who delivers the course?

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.

Another Core mediator, David Fraser, will develop his well received sessions on building business relationships in conflict situations.

View the course timetable here

Course Fees (includes course papers, refreshments and lunch): payable by 30 June 2008

Module 1 (Days 1 and 2)                                 £1175 plus VAT

Module 1 and 2 (including optional 3rd day)   £1575 plus VAT

 

For a registration form and for more information, please contact Laura Rutherford (laura.rutherford@core-solutions.com; 0131 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!