Mediation Training – Molding a Diverse Set of Conflict Resolution Skills
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Using these skills as a conflict manager and teaching them to others
During his more than 25-year career, Mark has continually updated his expertise in conflict resolution with a wide variety of trainings and course work. Since his first basic training in environmental mediation in 1987, Mark has accumulated over 450 hours of training in a diverse list of conflict resolution (and related) disciplines. In some of these areas, Mark has received several trainings as theory and practice have evolved over the years. These disciplines include:
Environmental/Land use/Water disputes
Multi-party (for example, work groups)
Workplace/Employer-Employee
Family (for example, parent-teen conflicts)
Divorce and child custody
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
Victim-offender reconciliation (restorative justice)
Coaching new mediators
Elder Care and Intergenerational Conflict
Citizen – law enforcement conflicts
Agreement writing (as taught by an attorney-mediator)
Management of Community Mediation Centers
Threat assessment
Cross cultural issues
These trainings have stressed a variety of conflict resolution styles, including facilitative, restorative and transformative, among others. During his career, Mark has had opportunity to mediate and facilitate using many of these styles (often during the same session). A diverse variety of skills and styles is a key to success in a conflict resolution practice.
Mark has utilized his training to do mediation, facilitation (of groups and meetings), conflict coaching (for example, coaching clients in effective public meeting management) and to develop his own conflict resolution training practice. Most of Mark’s trainings have been relatively short, overview courses in various aspects of conflict resolution presented to selected audiences such as Postal Service supervisors, federal employees, local government employees, law enforcement professionals, conflict resolution student groups, human resource professionals, attorneys, land use planners, mining industry professionals, and various members of the general public.