OVERVIEW | DATES, REGISTRATION & PAYMENT | SCHOLARSHIPS | QUESTIONS?

OVERVIEW

Community Boards’ nationally recognized The Basics of Mediation introduces core conflict resolution training designed for managers, human resource professionals, attorneys, ombudsmen, social workers, community mediators and others who must intervene in disputes as part of their work.

Basics is 40-hour training, taking place over two weekends.  Participants gain the knowledge, techniques and skills needed to handle a broad range of disputes. This training is required for those wishing to become volunteer Community Mediators.   While California has no statewide certification process for mediators, Basics meets the minimum requirements for most court mediation programs.

View information flyer here:  Basics of Mediation – 2012 Dates

Cost: Students: $395* | Members, $625* | Early registration, $695 (Late registration, $745)
MCLE Credits: 25.5 Total Credit Hours
MFT & LCSW Continuing Education Credits: Course meets the qualifications for 35 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (provider #4616). $10 processing fee required.

(*For more information about these special rates, contact Cordell Wesselink, (415) 920-3820 x 109, cwesselink@communityboards.org)

Graduates of Basics receive these additional benefits:

• Certificate of completion
• Opportunities to mediation through our Neighborhood Mediation Program
• No-cost quarterly Mediation Masters workshops

Basics training topics include:

• Effective communication and active listening skills
• Stages of mediated problem solving
• Balancing power
• Managing a negotiation
• Cultural and gender issues in mediation
• Dealing with strong emotions
• Breaking impasse
• De-escalating anger
• Drafting agreements that work

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DATES, REGISTRATION & PAYMENT

Winter 2012:  Feb 10-12 & 17-19
Preregistration, $695 | After Jan 27, $745
Register & pay online: Winter 2012

Summer 2012:  Jun 15-17 & 22-24
Preregistration, $695 | After Jun 1, $745
Register & pay online: Summer 2012

Fall 2012:  Oct 5-7 & 12-14
Preregistration, $695 | After Sep 21, $745
Register & pay online: Fall 2012

Full payment is required to complete your registration. When your payment is received, you will be sent confirmation by email of your reservation along with additional registration and training information.

Register & pay by mail/fax: Mail completed registration form with check or credit card information,  or fax with credit card information.  (All faxes are are secured and confidential.)  Basics 2012 Registration Form

Stretch Payments
You can make three easy installment payments by prior arrangement with Cordell Wesselink, Interim Mediation Program Manager at (415) 920-3820 x109 or by email, cwesselink@communityboards.org.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

• Cancellations occurring up to two weeks before training will be charged a $40 cancellation fee.
• Cancellations within two weeks of the training date, are charged a $100 cancellation fee.
• Cancellation fee is waived if you reschedule and apply your course fee to the next available training.

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SCHOLARSHIPS

Community Boards only awards scholarships to individuals residing and nonprofit organizations based in San Francisco.  The primary goal of our scholarship program is to maintain and expand the diversity of our citywide pool of volunteer Community Mediators.

We review applications individually, evaluating each based on our own current demographic and program needs.  All information remains confidential.   Awardees may be requested to provide additional program, outreach and/or public education assistance.  All scholarships are awarded at the sole discretion of Community Boards.

DEADLINE:  Applications must be submitted no later than four weeks prior to training date.  Submit your completed application by mail or fax, attention Cordell Wesselink, Interim Mediation Program Manager.

Click here to download Basics Scholarship Application.

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QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Cordell Wesselink, Interim Mediation Program Manager, (415) 920-3820 x109, or email him at cwesselink@communityboards.org.