October 2021
Taste of Mediation - Oct. 5 - Online
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
FOR CRC VOLUNTEERS: Monthly Mediator Debrief - Oct. 11 - Online
Date: Monday, October 11, 2021
Time: Noon – 1:00 pm
Location: Online
About this event:This is a one-hour free webinar for CRC volunteers who want to learn about best practices in debriefing mediation and discuss cases so that we can all learn from each other. We welcome all to attend, regardless of how recent your last mediation with CRC.
1 ADR continuing education credit earned
Mediation Ethics - October 13 - Online
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Time: Noon – 2:00 pm
Location: Online
About this event:
Join us for our semi-annual ethics CLE reviewing the rules and statutes governing ethical behavior for mediators in Minnesota. We’ll also provide an update on ethical statutes and rules and consider some fun hypotheticals to test your knowledge.
2 CLE Ethics Credits applied for.
2 ADR CE credits awarded.
Taste of Mediation - Oct. 19 - Online
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
Racism, Oppression, and Bias I: Expanding Mediator Awareness - Oct. 20 - online
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021
Time: Noon – 2:00 pm
Location: Online
About this event:Raise your awareness of racism, oppression, and unconscious bias to recognize the harms mediators can cause through their own white fragility and assumptions of what is normal or universal.
This two-hour awareness training is the first half of a two-session four-hour DEI training for mediators. These four hours of training and discussion is considered a beginning to what should be an ongoing, life-long practice of self-examination and humility.
This session is the pre-requisite for the Race, Oppression, and Bias II.
*There will be one to two hours of required readings, podcasts, and/or videos that will be assigned two weeks before class begins.
Two CLE elimination of bias credits applied for.
Two ADR CE credits awarded.
Racism, Oppression, and Bias II: Mediator Best Practices - Oct. 27 - online
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021
Time: Noon – 2:00 pm
Location: Online
About this event:
Spend two-hours discussing best practices for reducing mediator impact in a session where race (or other culturally specific community) is a factor and for supporting conversations about race and racism.
Prerequisite: CRC Race, Oppression, and Bias I
2 CLE elimination of bias credits applied for
2 ADR CE credits awarded
Community Circle for Repairing Racial Harms - Ongoing Fridays 4 pm to 5:30 pm - Online
Fridays – online – 4:00-5:30 pm
Please join us in holding a circle of support on Fridays from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. This is open to anyone who would like to be in community and offer and receive support.
October 8: Our time with Julia last week was beyond moving and impactful, and we needed MORE. We are very much looking forward to sharing space with Julia Dinsmore again this Friday at 4:00 pm. Please do not miss this opportunity to join in circle with Julia, to hear her poetry and life story, with vital lessons for today’s crises in poverty, housing, and social justice.
Julia Dinsmore is an author, poet, singer-songwriter, and poverty abolitionist who is best-known for her poem, “My Name is Not Those People.” Julia uses creative voice and storytelling to talk about the one thing we too often ignore – class and poverty in America.
From church basements to the halls of congress, Julia has presented in her edu-performance style, calling those who listen to join the work of creating a just world for those experiencing poverty and marginalization. She is a teacher for students in high schools and ivy leagues. She has taught students at Stanford University, Brown, Duke Divinity, Swarthmore, and Amherst College, among others. She is most well known for her classes in neighborhood “porch sitting” which she calls an alternative to service-learning!
Julia is a mother and grandmother who lives in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and is deeply committed to her communities there. She has been a Community Faculty member with HECUA; Inequality In America (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs) in St Paul for the past 30 years and has been part of shaping the creative community-based pedagogy of the institution. Though functionally illiterate for most of her life, Julia taught herself how to write, while writing her first book, “My Name Is Child of God, Not Those People, A First Person Look at Poverty,” (Augsburg Fortress). This book has become required reading in university classrooms and a favorite book of book clubs and reading groups. Julia would love to come to your organization and facilitate an authentic conversation surrounding class discrepancies and building relationships across these seemingly impenetrable borders.
LINKS:
Book: http://store.augsburgfortress.org/store/product/7589/My-Name-Is-Child-of-God-Not
This is a video of Danny Glover performing Julia’s poem. http://youtu.be/hQWbkVqZKeo
Example of Julia’s work with youth in Central Mn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StimQvMmuA4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1j6HNSao7gbrbw9MduFDGkCJLhGPI0FpVzWplGykuyvFF6dup31V_Y0Gg
Twin Cities Public Television, Emmy Nominated segment of Mind The Gap documentary showing some of her work in MN and beyond to end poverty.
http://www.mnvideovault.org/index.php?id=13948&select_index=1&popup=yes&fbclid=IwAR0CHw4lD46C73IR4Liq9PizJ6pD13DvW4WYdZksLaOUfFXbcI1Pa2HiefY
Questions?
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November 2021
Taste of Mediation - Nov. 2 - Online
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
FOR CRC VOLUNTEERS: Monthly Mediator Debrief - Nov. 8 - Online
Date: Monday, November 8, 2021
Time: Noon – 1:00 pm
Location: Online
About this event:This is a one-hour free webinar for CRC volunteers who want to learn about best practices in debriefing mediation and discuss cases so that we can all learn from each other. We welcome all to attend, regardless of how recent your last mediation with CRC.
1 ADR continuing education credit earned
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills I with Dr. Raj - Nov. 9 - Online
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills I with Dr. Raj
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Time: 6:00 -8:00 pm
Location: Online
CRC VOLUNTEERS ONLY!
Please take advantage of this series of restorative and trauma-informed mediation trainings with Dr. Raj. In each (of two) series of three sessions. we’ll unpack national and local issues and the disparity of consequences they bring. We’ll discuss implicit bias at the individual, operational, and systemic levels and how it shows up in our work. We’ll also discuss the colonial and white dominant tendencies of mediation and how to show up as mediators in a humane space. These two-hour sessions are offered at noon to 2 pm or 6 to 8 pm on Tuesdays in November and December. We hope that every CRC mediator will attend a series of three sessions (noon or evening), but you are welcome at any session in any order.
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills I with Dr. Raj - Nov. 16 - Online
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills I with Dr. Raj
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Time: 12 noon -2:00 pm
Location: Online
CRC VOLUNTEERS ONLY!
Please take advantage of this series of restorative and trauma-informed mediation trainings with Dr. Raj. In each (of two) series of three sessions. we’ll unpack national and local issues and the disparity of consequences they bring. We’ll discuss implicit bias at the individual, operational, and systemic levels and how it shows up in our work. We’ll also discuss the colonial and white dominant tendencies of mediation and how to show up as mediators in a humane space. These two-hour sessions are offered at noon to 2 pm or 6 to 8 pm on Tuesdays in November and December. We hope that every CRC mediator will attend a series of three sessions (noon or evening), but you are welcome at any session in any order.
Taste of Mediation - Nov. 16 - Online
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills II with Dr. Raj - Nov. 22 - Online
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills II with Dr. Raj
Date: MONDAY, November 22, 2021
Time: 6:00 -8:00 pm
Location: Online
CRC VOLUNTEERS ONLY!
Please take advantage of this series of restorative and trauma-informed mediation trainings with Dr. Raj. In each (of two) series of three sessions. we’ll unpack national and local issues and the disparity of consequences they bring. We’ll discuss implicit bias at the individual, operational, and systemic levels and how it shows up in our work. We’ll also discuss the colonial and white dominant tendencies of mediation and how to show up as mediators in a humane space. These two-hour sessions are offered at noon to 2 pm or 6 to 8 pm on in November and December. We hope that every CRC mediator will attend a series of three sessions (noon or evening), but you are welcome at any session in any order.
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills II with Dr. Raj - Nov. 30 - Online
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills II with Dr. Raj
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Time: 12 noon -2:00 pm
Location: Online
CRC VOLUNTEERS ONLY!
Please take advantage of this series of restorative and trauma-informed mediation trainings with Dr. Raj. In each (of two) series of three sessions. we’ll unpack national and local issues and the disparity of consequences they bring. We’ll discuss implicit bias at the individual, operational, and systemic levels and how it shows up in our work. We’ll also discuss the colonial and white dominant tendencies of mediation and how to show up as mediators in a humane space. These two-hour sessions are offered at noon to 2 pm or 6 to 8 pm on Tuesdays in November and December. We hope that every CRC mediator will attend a series of three sessions (noon or evening), but you are welcome at any session in any order.
Community Circle for Repairing Racial Harms - Ongoing Fridays 4 pm to 5:30 pm - Online
Community Circle for Repairing Racial Harms
Fridays – online – 4:00-5:30 pm
Please join us in holding a circle of support on Fridays from 4:00 to 5:30 pm.
This is open to anyone who would like to be in community and offer and receive support.
Questions?
or
December 2021
Family Bridge Training - begins Dec. 7 - online
Dates: December 7, 8, 9,14,15, & 16 (Tues, Wed, Thurs for 2 weeks)
Time: 12:30 pm -5:30 pm
Prerequisite is a 30-Hour Civil Mediation Training. Completion of this class allows you to be on the Family Facilitative/Hybrid Roster in Minnesota.
Family mediation is an empowering process for people separating or divorcing. District courts throughout Minnesota require parties filing for divorce to consider alternative dispute resolution processes during the course of their court case. If you are already a trained civil mediator and are interested in becoming trained to mediate family mediation cases, completion of this class means you are eligible to apply to be on the Minnesota Rule 114 Family Facilitative Hybrid Qualified Neutral Roster. In this class we will cover: family law; psychological issues of adults and children in divorce; domestic abuse; financial and property issues, and mediator ethics in family cases. Class also includes role plays, coaching and debriefing.
Cost: $650
$450 if you are an Active CRC Volunteer – use promo code
Professional Credits:
25 Alternative Dispute Resolution Credits (ADR), includes 1 Ethics Credits – applied for
25 Standard Continuing Legal Education Credits (CLE), includes 1 Ethics Credits – applied for
Taste of Mediation - Dec. 7 - Online
Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills III with Dr. Raj - Dec. 7 - Online
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills III with Dr. Raj
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021
Time: 6:00 -8:00 pm
Location: Online
CRC VOLUNTEERS ONLY!
Please take advantage of this series of restorative and trauma-informed mediation trainings with Dr. Raj. In each (of two) series of three sessions. we’ll unpack national and local issues and the disparity of consequences they bring. We’ll discuss implicit bias at the individual, operational, and systemic levels and how it shows up in our work. We’ll also discuss the colonial and white dominant tendencies of mediation and how to show up as mediators in a humane space. These two-hour sessions are offered at noon to 2 pm or 6 to 8 pm on Tuesdays in November and December. We hope that every CRC mediator will attend a series of three sessions (noon or evening), but you are welcome at any session in any order.
FOR CRC VOLUNTEERS: Monthly Mediator Debrief - Dec. 13 - Online
Date: Monday, December 13, 2021
Time: Noon – 1:00 pm
Location: Online
About this event:This is a one-hour free webinar for CRC volunteers who want to learn about best practices in debriefing mediation and discuss cases so that we can all learn from each other. We welcome all to attend, regardless of how recent your last mediation with CRC.
1 ADR continuing education credit earned
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills III with Dr. Raj - Dec. 14 - Online
Developing Restorative Mediator Presence and Skills III with Dr. Raj
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021
Time: 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Location: Online
CRC VOLUNTEERS ONLY!
Please take advantage of this series of restorative and trauma-informed mediation trainings with Dr. Raj. In each (of two) series of three sessions. we’ll unpack national and local issues and the disparity of consequences they bring. We’ll discuss implicit bias at the individual, operational, and systemic levels and how it shows up in our work. We’ll also discuss the colonial and white dominant tendencies of mediation and how to show up as mediators in a humane space. These two-hour sessions are offered at noon to 2 pm or 6 to 8 pm on Tuesdays in November and December. We hope that every CRC mediator will attend a series of three sessions (noon or evening), but you are welcome at any session in any order.
Taste of Mediation - Dec. 21 - Online
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
January 2022
Taste of Mediation - Jan. 4 - Online
Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
FOR CRC VOLUNTEERS: Monthly Mediator Debrief - Jan. 10 - Online
Date: Monday, January 10, 2022
Time: Noon – 1:00 pm
Location: Online
About this event:This is a one-hour free webinar for CRC volunteers who want to learn about best practices in debriefing mediation and discuss cases so that we can all learn from each other. We welcome all to attend, regardless of how recent your last mediation with CRC.
1 ADR continuing education credit earned
30-Hour Civil Facilitative Hybrid Mediation Training - Online - begins Jan. 13
30-Hour Civil Facilitative Hybrid Mediation ONLINE Class
8 Thursday evenings beginning January 13
Dates: Jan. 13, 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24, and Mar. 3.
Time: 5:00 to 9:15 pm
Cost: $800
**Register by January 7 to ensure you receive the manual (via UPS) by the first day of class. If there are spots available, we accept registrations up until the first day of class, but you will not receive the materials before that class.
The 30-Hour Facilitative Civil Mediation Training is a comprehensive experiential training course that teaches participants to skillfully facilitate conversations between people in conflict in order to assist them in reaching creative, mutually-satisfactory outcomes. This course is designed for professionals who want to learn to mediate, and meets all requirements of both the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Rule 114 Training Guidelines and the Community Dispute Resolution Program Training Requirements for community mediators in Minnesota. Upon completion of this certified course, participants will have the skills to mediate in a wide variety of situations and be eligible for inclusion on the Minnesota Rule 114 Qualified Neutral Civil Roster as well as be eligible to volunteer with community mediation centers throughout Minnesota.
During the training, participants learn the mediation process, and gain the skills to identify the interests and fundamental needs that underlie the positions of people in conflict. Participants also learn to reframe positional or destructive communication into productive communication, and to understand conflict styles, become an active listener, manage impasse, and identify power imbalances. Additionally, participants learn skills to remain neutral in challenging situations and gain an understanding of the cultural and ethical issues that may arise when mediating parties in conflict.
Professional Credits:
30 Alternative Dispute Resolution Credits (ADR), includes 2 Ethics Credits,
26 Standard Continuing Legal Education Credits (CLE), includes 2 Ethics Credits and 2 Elimination of Bias Credits 30 total CLE
Participants will purchase The Mediator’s Handbook: Revised & Expanded Fourth Edition, by Jennifer E. Beer and Caroline C. Packard. It may be purchased when registering and it will be mailed to you with the course manual. It is also available through on-line bookstores.
CRC is a non-profit organization. If you are interested in this training, but feel you cannot afford to pay the entire fee, please go to scholarship application under the Trainings tab at www.crminnestoa.org and complete the scholarship request form.
GROUPS: If you are interested in registering a group, please contact janet@CRCminnesota.org to inquire about group rates.
Taste of Mediation Tuesday - Jan. 18 - Online
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
The Nonjudgment Challenge - January 19 - Online
The Nonjudgment Challenge with Janet Collins
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Time: Noon-1:00 pm
Location: Online
Join us to discuss the importance of non-judgment to your mediation practice and how we can self-regulate during a mediation. We’ll do some fun exercises for practice and reflect on our effect on mediation participants and outcome.
1 ADR CE awarded
February 2022
Taste of Mediation - Feb. 1 - Online
Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
FOR CRC VOLUNTEERS: Monthly Mediator Debrief - Feb. 14 - Online
Date: Monday, February 14, 2022
Time: Noon – 1:00 pm
Location: Online
About this event:This is a one-hour free webinar for CRC volunteers who want to learn about best practices in debriefing mediation and discuss cases so that we can all learn from each other. We welcome all to attend, regardless of how recent your last mediation with CRC.
1 ADR continuing education credit earned
Taste of Mediation Tuesday - Feb. 15 - Online
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Online
About this Event
Join us for a one-hour (and free)
TASTE OF MEDIATION TUESDAY!
How does mediation work?
What are restorative practices?
How do CRC programs work to reduce the impacts of racial disparities and racism and increase equity and inclusion?
How can you become a mediator?
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