Monthly Archives: June 2020

Trainer has to know the difference between a refresher course and forty hours’ training in mediation. Refresher course is not a 40 hours’ training program cut short into 20 hours or less. Refresher course is designed to make the mediators apply the theoretical knowledge acquired in earlier training programs and knowledge acquired from practical mediationContinue reading “Week 26: Conducting a Refresher Course”

Experiential training strengthens the concepts. It gives confidence to the trainees. “Breaking the Task” is one of the essential parts of experiential training methodology. Depending on the situation each topic or sub topic, each component or sub-component can be broken into further parts so that the trainees feel the importance of each and every concept, and do notContinue reading “Week 25: Breaking the Task”

Coaching is one of the essential skills of a trainer. More focus is given on this skill in mediation training because it is through coaching the trainees are prepared and strengthened to handle practical mediation. The theoretical and practical aspects of mediation are brought into alignment through coaching. Coaching has 2 elements in it: IdentificationContinue reading “Week 24: Coaching”

Trainer should have several exercises in the trainer’s kit. Choice of exercise/s is to be cautiously made keeping in mind the capacity of the trainees and the objective of the training. An exercise which is to be given in refresher course cannot be given in 40 hours’ training. Nothing which is irrelevant to the topicContinue reading “Week 23: Effective Use of Exercises in Training”