STUDENT MEDIATION TRAINING

How can you stop an insult turning into a fight?

What if apologising does not end an argument?

Can we end a dispute without blaming anyone?

School students can now learn the latest techniques in dispute resolution from professional mediators.  LawWorks is offering a new training in mediation skills aimed initially at sixth-form level.
 
Mediation is a way of resolving disputes without blame or judgement and with the help of an impartial person.  Click here to download this page as a pdf document.

Purpose
The training provides students with skills they can immediately put into effect when encountering conflict in their lives.  It will also give them experience relevant for their careers.  The training may be used as the first step for schools establishing a peer mediation scheme or implementing restorative practices.  Click here for information on peer mediation.

Content
The training consists of an interactive Seminar on Dispute Resolution (1-2 hours) which may be followed by a Mediation Skills Training Day (5 hours). The Training Day gives students practical experience of being a mediator and individual coaching from a professional mediator.  Click here for the course content.

Course Approval
The LawWorks Student Mediation Training has been assessed and approved by Dr Leonardo Raznovich, the Head of Law and Dispute Resolution at Canterbury Christ Church University.  Click here for a copy of the assessment.

Sixth-formers at John Beddoes School with their LawWorks certificates and professional mediators John Kendall, Janine Edge, Leonardo Raznovich, Jackie Miller and Eve Wilson.

For information on the course leaders, click here.

For further information contact Martin Curtis.