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Situational role plays are used to bring absolute clarity about a concept. These are used in Refresher Courses  Advanced training In Forty hours’ training in mediation   Steps to be followed Pre-briefing in situational role plays: Only a select group is requested to come on the stage to enact the roles. Other participants are requested toContinue reading “Week 31: Situational Role Play”

As a trainer one should know the distinction between 40 hours’ training in mediation, refresher course for mediators and advanced training for trained mediators. In 40 hours’ training focus will be on introducing basic concepts related to mediation and procedural aspects related to mediation process so that the process of mediation is not diluted at anyContinue reading “Week 30: Advanced Training for Mediators”

Trainer is looking at only one group of trainees and ignoring the others. It is often noticed that some trainers focus all their attention to only those seated in the first or/and second row/s ignoring the others. Some trainers address only those who are seated either to their left or to their right. Though theContinue reading “Week 29: Are we doing any of these?”

 REMEMBERING  “I  C  S”  1. Inspiration There is nothing wrong in  getting inspired by another co-trainer or lead trainer or master trainer. There is nothing wrong in appreciating that other trainer and looking up to that person as a role model. There is nothing wrong in taking a decision that ‘as a trainer one would give presentation/s as given byContinue reading “Week 28: Myth and the Reality”

Adapting the principle of Rule of three will help in laying a neat layout for the presentation. Rule of three deals with three segments: Must be done     Good if it is done     Can be done It is advisable to follow this principle while working on the three out of the four quarters of presentation namely: Contents Continue reading “Week 27: Rule of Three”

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”

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training”. Archilochus – Greek Lyric Poet Trainer has to constantly be in the process of getting trained. With every training it is the trainer who has to get more enriched. Trainees, observers, co-trainers and the lead trainers are allContinue reading “Week 22: Mistake and Error”