[Peace] Affordable facilitation training - Dec 10-11

[Danielle Chynoweth]

I strongly recommend this training to help strengthen your community
organizing skills.  After organizing in CU for 10 years, I have seen poor
faciliation and/or lack of mediation destroy the best of intentions.  If
you have the time, please consider attending - we need more facilitators!
- Danielle C.

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Mediation/Facilitation Training You can't choose whether or not you
experience conflict. You can learn how to respond to it creatively.
Conflict is a great opportunity for people and groups to learn and grow!

This training is aimed at:  Individuals who wish to expand their ability
to understand and respond to interpersonal conflict Members of community
groups (co-ops, clubs, parents, churches, students, activists, teachers,
teens) which are largely non-hierarchal and therefore rely on
encouragement, rather than enforcement, to work. This training is helpful
to any decision-making process (voting, consensus, etc).

It will entail:
10 hours of training
(Friday December 10th 6:00pm-8:00pm and Saturday the 11th 10:00 am-6:00pm) 

Topics include:
Elements of conflict
Responses to conflict
Active listening
Effective communication
Bias Awareness and Witholding Judgement
Negotiation (conflict between two people, one of whom is you)
Mediation techniques and process (conflict between 2-5
people with you as the impartial mediator)

Optional three-hour session topics 
(12/12, from 1:00-4:00pm)
Facilitation (assisting a group in its decision-making process)
Group process and dynamics
 
Location: Illinois Disciples Foundation at 610 E.
Springfield St. Champaign IL in Wisegarver Lounge

Contact:
Beth Simpson: elizacorps at yahoo.com - 344-0300

TUITION: 
Mediation Training Only
$20 unassociated individual
$10 member of a co-sponsoring group

Mediation/Facilitation Training
$25 unassociated individual
$15 member of a co-sponsoring group
 
*if you are interested in co-sponsoring please let us
know

CPDUs are available for teachers.

Offered by Liberation Education

Beth Simpson has been working in the field of interpersonal conflict
exploration for over 8 years. She is currently the Peer Mediation
Coordinator at Urbana Middle School and does freelance facilitation in the
Champaign-Urbana community.

Karina Lepeley has been working in the field of interpersonal conflict
exploration for 4 years. In February of this year she completed the basic
coursework in communication studies from the Center for Leadership Design
and returned to partner the course in September.  She is currently a
Alexander Technique Instructor Trainee and active caregiver.