Ballymun Community Law Centre - Conflict Resolution and Mediation Skills Course

Ballymun Community Law Centre

Conflict Resolution and Mediation Skills

Delivery: A hybrid course of 5 days of in-person sessions and 4 online sessions starting 31^st January.

Course presenters: Geoffrey Corry and Mary Lou O’Kennedy in partnership with Ballymun Community Law Centre.

This skills based course is an intensive 60-hour training and run as three separate modules over a period of two months. It is designed for volunteers, frontline workers and professionals who want to obtain a foundation in conflict resolution and mediation skills for use in their own organisation or work situation or to become a mediator particularly in community, family, and workplace disputes. By the end of the 60-hour course, you will:

• have developed an awareness of the positive value of conflict and your own style of responding to conflict
• appreciate the essential features and principles of the mediation process and how to adapt it for working through different interpersonal disputes
• have participated in at least five simulated mediations, using case studies developed from different interpersonal dispute areas.
• understand each stage of the mediation process and possess the basic skills to resolve conflicts informally or to start practicing mediation (under supervision)

For further details including course prospectus, fee, dates and registration see: https://www.bclc.ie/courses/general/spring-mediation-22/