Mediation Practicum
The 8-week practicum gives mediation students additional opportunities to hone their mediation skills in a small group setting. The group will review learned concepts and practice them in-depth through weekly role-plays. The practicum is intended for novice mediators who need additional support and practice. While we will try to keep role-plays as realistic as possible, we cannot offer any live mediation cases for practice.
Key concepts to be covered
Opening Statement
Summarizing uninterrupted time
Gathering information
Reflecting, reflecting, reflecting
Mediator’s toolbox
Power imbalances
Setting the agenda and generating/evaluating options
Closing the session/writing an agreement
Schedule
This 8-week course will be held online over the Zoom platform.
Postponed
Cost
$700
Fostering diversity in the mediation field is a core value of our work. Black and BIPOC participants can use code BIPOC500 for 50% off the total cost.
Additional discounts available based on need. Please contact Elena for more information
Instructors
Skye Roper Moses is a Conflict Coach, Mediator, Restorative Justice Practitioner, and Community Weaver. Skye loves assisting the community at large to understand their conflict situations. She developed a strong interest in conflict as a young person watching people in her family and community debate with differing opinions on race, religion, and inequity. Skye was introduced to mediation as an undergraduate at Florida A&M University and discovered there was a formal way to assist people in conflict. As a graduate, she returned to NYC where she worked in a social service setting in the South Bronx. The families she serviced had internal and family conflict. This led her to pursue a Masters in Conflict Resolution and Negotiation from Columbia University.
After completing graduate school, she continued to work directly with families and communities in conflict as a volunteer mediator for Safe Horizon, servicing families in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Through volunteer mediating, specifically with family, community, and court-involved youth, she was introduced to Restorative Practices. Skye has worked as a restorative justice practitioner for 8 years both in a volunteer and coordinator capacity. She worked as a Restorative Justice Coordinator for a south Brooklyn high school for 4 years. That work led to her most recent role as an Adjunct Professor teaching Dispute Resolution and Restorative Practices at John Jay College. Skye worked concurrently as an assistant compassion fatigue facilitator that serves groups of people who experience vicarious trauma. Skye’s focus is to continue working with families and communities who need assistance with conflict.
Simone Dornbach is a German and US-trained social worker (MSW) with a strong interest in restorative practices. Her way to mediation led her from social work to international peace and development work to the New York Peace Institute, where she was trained in mediation, and where she volunteered and briefly worked. Today she is also an active volunteer at Community Mediation Services, Inc., the Queens based mediation center.
Simone has been mediating for more than 10 years and her style is facilitative with a strong leaning towards transformative mediation. What matters most to her is supporting parties in finding their voice and agency. Trained in restorative peace circles, she believes that these are spaces to uplift just that in a group setting. In addition, Simone enjoys mentoring and coaching mediation students. She has worked as a mentor at the New York Peace Institute for 3 years and more recently as a coach with independent mediation trainer Elena Sapora. She recently started teaching Dispute Resolution as an Assistant Adjunct Professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice.
When Simone is not mediating, coaching and facilitating circles, she is spending time with her two daughters as well as organizing and advocating for an equitable and culturally responsive public school system in New York City.
Registration
Prerequisite: This practicum is available for individuals who have completed a Basic Mediation Training with Elena Sapora.
To register, please complete the form below. Then follow the link to make your payment. Your space will be reserved only after you complete the payment.
Refund Policy: Cancellations made within 24 hours of registration are subject to a $50 administrative fee. After the initial 24 hours, participants who withdraw up to one week before the start of the practicum (April 24, 2023) will be subject to a $100 administrative fee. Once the practicum begins, participants who withdraw may request a pro-rated refund for any remaining sessions.