Online Group Practice and Skill Development - Joint Session (Option Generation and Drafting Agreements)

This session is for accredited mediators or people who are enrolled in the Facilitated Discussion Certificate Course, or people who have completed the 5 week online Conducting Workplace Facilitation webinars.

These sessions are conducted with accredited and experienced workplace mediators.  They are designed for mediators to be able to practice their skills in a safe and collegial environment for the purposes of developing your mediation practice.  

Upon registration you will receive a scenario of a common workplace conflict.  

Your session is a role play and you are given the opportunity to rotate through the different roles as a mediator, and the disputing employees. 

It will be assumed that you have conducted your intakes and started your mediation by having completed your introduction, set the agenda and prioritised the agenda and have conducted most of the exploration phase.  You will be given a summary of these at your workshop.

You will start your practice at briefly reviewing the exploration stage of the mediation process and focus the parties on generating options that you will then draft into agreements.  You will also take turns at being the mediator or an employee participant.  You will get to observe and be observed overseen by a trained, experienced mediator coach to provide guidance and feedback.  

You will be provided feedback about;

• How well you navigate the agenda items
• Ensuring parties feel heard
• Ensuring the rules of engagement are adhered to
• Your ability to maintain independence
• Not providing instructions or advice to the parties 
• Your ability to capture the intention of the parties in written agreements
• What do you do if they don't want written agreements
• Mediation micro-skills (how many you use and how effectively you use them)
• Feedback from the participants