Continuing Education
Six Rivers strives to inspire learning and involvement by teaching conflict resolution skills to our community. Our educational opportunities focus personal development of skills such as active listening, detoxifying language, and identifying interests. In teaching these important lessons, we strive to create a strong foundation for our mediators and community members to work from in promoting healthy conflict resolution.
Interested in developing your conflict resolution skills? Six Rivers has a variety of skill building opportunities through our Continuing Education classes. Whether your goals are to become a paid mediation practitioner or improve your listening or negotiation skills, these classes, led by local professionals and mediators, will provide amazing learning experiences for you. Click here to be added to our email list and receive announcements for Continuing Education opportunities.
3-Day Basic Conflict Coaching with author Tricia Jones
We are currently re-designing the Conflict Coaching training to reflect current gathering restrictions and community needs. If you registered previously, you should be receiving updates by email. If you have any questions, please contact Nicolia at outreach@6rivers.org. We hope to provide this training to the Oregon community soon. The new training dates and format will be shared here, on our newsletter, and on the Six Rivers DRC Facebook page. Thank you for your interest!
Conflict Coaching is a one-on-one service aimed at assisting clients in identifying their goals, resources, and ideal strategy regarding a conflict and then practicing the specific skills necessary to enact that strategy. The service can be offered tangentially to mediation or as a stand alone service. We are excited to bring Tricia, a nationally renowned speaker and lecturer, to the area for this training!
Examples of classes that Six Rivers has provided in the past include:
• Effective Caucusing
• Balancing Power
• Engaging Youth in Conflict Resolution
• Listening to Non-verbals
• Mediation and Counseling
• Culture and Conflict
• Conflict Coaching
• Impartiality
• Active Listening Skills
• Framing and Reframing
• Breaking Impasse
• Co-Mediation
• Workplace Mediation
• Cross Culture Mediation
• Youth Mediation through Wasco County Youth Services
• Manufactured Community Dwelling Mediation
• Contract Law and Mediation
• Communication Education
• Mandatory Reporter Training
Feeling like your mediation skills are a little rusty? Want to get more mediation experience before you start mediating real cases? Mediation Practice Groups are a wonderful way to further your mediation skills by practicing with other volunteers. During practice groups you will be asked to participate in mediation role plays and will not only gain experience in mediation, but will also be presented with opportunities to learn from other volunteers with varying levels of expertise.
Practice groups start by brainstorming areas or concepts that participants would like to focus on for the session and then move into informal mediation role plays. After the role play is complete, the group will devote time to discussing techniques and methods and their efficacy. Mediation Practice Groups will allow you to stay current and comfortable in your practice to ensure skilled and experienced mediators for our community. Click here to be added to our email list and receive announcements for Mediation Practice Group opportunities.
Listen with greater compassion. Learn how to avoid defensiveness and blame. Intervene with wisdom from heart-to-heart listening by attuning to the energy of conflict. Find connection, collaboration, and sustainable solutions.
Our Compassionate Listening practice group is currently taking a break as we all explore some self-compassion. We encourage you to checkout Compassionate Listening Portland on Facebook as well as the Compassionate Listening Project to learn more about this important work. www.compassionatelistening.org
Click here to be added to our email list about Compassionate Listening practice group sessions and events. Please contact us if you would like one-on-one coaching to build great listening skills.