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Upcoming Events & Trainings

We are pleased to offer online mediation trainings with Beth Roy in January and March, 2025.

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Mediating Power and Emotion: 
Untangling Interpersonal and Organizational Conflict 

A 21-Hour Training on Zoom

JUNE 13-15, 10am–5pm MT
(with a pre-gathering 6-7:30pm Mountain Time on Thursday June 12)

Beth Roy, our lead trainer, draws on five decades of experience as a mediator. She taught conflict studies and mediation at University California, Berkeley, for many years, and has trained mediators as part of the Radical Therapy community privately throughout. She is the author of numerous studies of conflict between and within communities (The Bernal Story and Some Trouble with Cows, among others), and is a co-founder of Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute (PRASI) which has supported people to produce research grounded in practice by people whose lived experience is otherwise missing from the literature of the mediation field. In addition to many families and friends, Beth has mediated communities and organizations in the U.S. and abroad, including university faculties, city departments, religious groups, medical clinics, theater companies, small businesses, labor organizations, and more.

All conflict involves dignified differences of interests and needs. Equally, conflict evokes strong emotions as it challenges our sense of self and norms of behavior. When conflict occurs in group settings, whether workplaces, families, communities, or other kinds of organizations, these factors combine with complex dynamics of power, identity, and culture. Often, interpersonal conflict, skillfully mediated, leads to constructive change in organizational systems and traditions – and vice versa. 

Beth Roy offers a four-day training in mediating power and emotion, with a focus on organizational conflict, especially those involving differences of identity and culture. This highly participatory workshop teaches skills in analyzing power dynamics at play in multiple domains, while also facilitating constructive emotional expression. 

In the political climate of today, it is all the more important that we know how to work together cooperatively and to build coalitions for social change. Bring your stories of disruptive conflict – and also your experiences of constructive conflict transformation. Everyone welcome, newcomers, experienced mediators, activists, and organizers.

 

Skills we teach:

  • Eliciting participation in conflict intervention processes

  • Analyzing power

  • Constructing protections needed for honest communication

  • Speaking truths with respect and honesty

  • Expressing emotion constructively

  • Facilitating cooperative negotiation

  • Making action plans for concrete change

  • …and more!

We charge fees on a sliding scale of $400-2000: pay what you can afford. We turn nobody away for lack of money; email Beth at broy@igc.org to explore options.

Because the training depends on full participation and both personal and professional stories, we do not offer tapes of the sessions. If you can’t make it to the training, we can recommend readings and other sources of learning.

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