Advanced Mediation Skills

This advanced skills class is an opportunity to expand your skills and practices as you encounter more complex cases. Through demonstrations and role plays, you will gain competencies using facilitative, directive and transformative mediations. You will also learn how to destabilize the narratives people tell, handle high conflict personalities, know when to walk away from a case and practice reflecting on imperfect mediations, using reflective practices.

Specific Objectives:
● Gain practical tools to handle race and other equity related cases
● Learn to stay calm when the parties escalate the conflict or walk away
● Discuss mediators’ ethical obligations when confidentiality is not an option
● Practice the use of questions to get through impasses and create transformational moments
● Bring a challenging case for the group to work on together
● Have fun working with colleagues from different areas of practice to deepen you experience

Trainers:
Tsipora Dimant has been a mediator since 1992. She mediates workplace, court, families and small or large group disputes. Her latest project involves managing a statewide Peer Mediation Program for the Oregon Education Association. Tsipora also teaches mediation skills for Portland Community College, The City of Hillsboro, The City of Milwaukie, Multnomah County and the Oregon Education Association.

Lee Hamilton began her mediation practice in 2007 following a career of counseling children and families at Portland Public Schools. She began mediating in Small Claims court followed by facilitating workplace mediations in large group settings. She also mediates for divorcing couples.

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