In production
The community mediation certification
Eight modules, eighty lectures, and the exercises that go with them. Written for practitioners who already do this work without a credential, and for mediators moving into the extractive sector.
What it covers
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Foundations
What mediation is, what it is not, and the principles that hold when the power is uneven.
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Communication
Listening, reframing, questioning, and holding a room that does not want to be held.
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Understanding conflict
Analysis, mapping, escalation dynamics, and the difference between a position and an interest.
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Process design
Designing a process the parties will accept as legitimate before they know the outcome.
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Special challenges
Trauma, impasse, intimidation, bad faith, and what to do when a party walks.
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Agreements and implementation
Drafting commitments that survive, and monitoring that is not theatre.
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Specialised applications
FPIC, resettlement, grievance mechanisms, benefit agreements, closure.
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Social Accord Architecture
The full method, end to end, with the selection instrument and both frameworks.
Hear when it opens
I will send one email when enrolment opens and one when the first cohort has a date. Nothing else on this list.
Until then
The material the course is built from is already published. Mediating Extractive Conflicts is the handbook, and Rebuild Grounds is the methodology.
If your team needs training before the course exists, I run it in person. Training.