….TOT 192- “The Right Bridge”

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TOT 192-WEEK 192

 “THE  RIGHT BRIDGE”

• Accumulation
•  Contemplation
• Action

have to be three important components of any training program.

• Accumulation

Learning provides basis for the accumulation of knowledge. During the mediation  training, trainer imparts knowledge  that are  fundamental to understand the nuances of mediation. Trainees get the systematic knowledge accumulated .  The seeds sown by the trainer can be  nurtured  and developed further by the trainees through advanced  learning, which can be by means of reading , listening ,watching observing etc . During the training, the trainees are equipped to  learn  as what needs to be done and why?

iii)  Action

Objective of training is to see to it that what is learnt by the trainees  is  practically put to use. The trainees are expected to make use of their knowledge base to conduct mediation in an effective manner.   While they are in action, they  may remember, recollect  and make use of the same in actual  mediations.  

ii) Contemplation

However, in between the above two stages trainees have to think  deep within themselves and   take a call as to  (i) When to do what to do  (ii) How to do what to do (iii) Where to do what to do.

Thus developing a mindset to think well  before actually doing anything  plays a vital role  in the training.

This ‘contemplation part ’  stands as a bridge between the ‘learning part ‘and ‘action part ‘.

How to train the mediators in achieving this?

1. Take a situational role play.
2. Ask the trainee mediator  to  mediate.
3. As the trainee mediator puts a specific question or decides to break the session or  chooses to talk to third party   etc.., ask the trainee mediator what prompted the mediator to do so?
4. Find out,  whether the trainee mediator  thought before taking a given step  or is she/he justifying her/his action  after doing it?

Advantages:

With this exercise, trainees will be equipped to not to do anything without there being  proper reason behind doing it.

Thus ‘contemplation’   becomes part of the bridging process.

Checks:

Trainer should not intervene un necessarily.

Trainer should  intervene , only where a specific action by the trainee mediator required/ s   premeditation.  

“What we plant in the soil of contemplation we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

                             Mesiter Eckhart- German Philosopher

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