OVERVIEW | DATES, REGISTRATION & PAYMENT | SCHOLARSHIPS | QUESTIONS?
OVERVIEW
Community Boards’ nationally recognized The Basics of Mediation introduces core conflict resolution skills in a 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 a 40-hour training, taking place over two consecutive weekends, Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm. There are also two additional 2-hour learning modules that will be assigned.
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 for our Neighborhood Mediation Program. While California has no statewide certification process for mediators, Basics meets the minimum requirements for most court mediation programs.
View information flyer here: The Basics of Mediation 2013 Flyer
View additional testimonials here: The Basics of Mediation Participant Testimonials
COSTS
Tuition: Students: $445* | Members, $670** | Early registration, $745 / Late registration, $795
MCLE: This course is approved by the State Bar of California for 30 MCLE credits (provider #9323). $75 processing fee required.
MFT/LCSW: This course meets the qualifications for 30 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (provider #4616). $75 processing fee required.
*For more information about our academic rate, contact Cordell Wesselink, (415) 920-3820 x 109, cwesselink@communityboards.org.
**You can become a CB Member here. Once you’ve become a member, you will need your membership expiration date to register and make payment.
Graduates of Basics receive:
- 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 2013: Feb 2-3 & 9-10
Preregistration, $745 | After Jan 19, $795
Register & pay online: Winter 2013
Spring 2013: May 18-19 & 25-26
Preregistration, $745 | After May 3, $795
Register & pay online: Spring 2013
Fall 2013: Sep 7-8 & 14-15
Preregistration, $745 | After Aug 23, $795
Register & pay online: Fall 2013
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.) Access form here: 2013 Basics 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.
2013 Scholarship Application Deadlines
- Winter: 5:00 PM, Friday, Jan 25 (Deadline extended due to office move)
- Summer: 5:00 PM, Friday, Apr 19
- Fall: 5:00 PM, Friday, Aug 9
Access application here: 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.
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