
Discover mediation, conflict management and resolution through stages of conflict, methods of solution, and possible outcomes, with practical techniques for leading conversations and asking questions.
Meet our expert team behind this mediation course. Highlighting Gloria Dimitrova and Valentin Boyages, the team offers field-specific, accessible insights in psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and nutrition.
Explore the essence and specifics of mediation, conflict management, and resolution through a light, short, yet useful course that blends theory and practice. Earn two certificates of completion.
Mediation is a form of conflict resolution where an impartial third party guides a structured conversation to help parties jointly resolve disputes with voluntariness, and decide on future communication.
Compare mediation with court trial: mediation centers on personal responsibility and mutual solutions, while court trials rely on lawyers and a judge to decide.
Compare basic mediation techniques with court trial, highlighting mediation’s mutual solutions, consensus, and self-regulating process across politics, environment, family, and work, versus court decisions based on guilt and punishment.
Learn what it takes to be a mediator, upholding impartiality and confidentiality. Active listening and questioning reveal underlying needs, while the mediator guides the process neutrally.
Explore the columns of mediation by voluntariness, a common interest in resolving conflict, and impartiality. The mediator maintains neutrality and equal regard, while parties control communication and personal responsibility.
Navigate the five phases of mediation, from establishing trust and a contract to raising, clarifying interests, developing proposals, and reaching a sustainable agreement.
Explore the three main mediation solutions, focusing on win-win outcomes achieved through addressing needs, desires, and fears, and achieving consensus through mutual acceptance and compromise.
Explore the stages of escalation in conflict from fierceness to complete destruction, and learn how mediators limit escalation and steer toward win win or win loss outcomes.
Develop effective communication by choosing words and delivery carefully, as the meaning of messages depends on how they are said.
Explore how verbal and nonverbal communication conveys messages across four levels—factual, relationship, self-disclosure, and appeal—and how feedback, perception, culture, and congruence prevent misunderstandings.
Explore techniques for asking questions in mediation, using introductory, information, clarifying, hypothetical, circle, triad, and open or closed questions to clarify specifics, prompt new perspectives, and foster responsible dialogue.
In this practical exercise, small groups of three develop solution-oriented and circular questions for a mediation interview, then conduct an interview, reflect, and provide feedback.
Celebrate completing the mediation course and access your Udemy certificate plus a second certificate from the course team, downloadable from resources, with feedback or questions via direct message.
Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to present to you this online certification course “Mediation: Conflict Management and Resolution“. The book is pleasant and easily accessible for each of you. It is packed with accessible information that you can use in your daily life as well as in your professional field. Conflicts are all around us. Rarely, almost never, will you meet a person who can boast that he has never come into conflict with another person. It's not dangerous and scary to get into a dispute, it's scary not knowing how to get out of it!
This course will give you clear guidance and understanding of the stages of the conflict, the methods of solution, the possible outcomes, and more.
Mediation, in turn, is an elegant tool for resolving multiple and diverse conflict situations. It is used in various fields of social and professional life. There are also people who have made mediation their way of life and their profession.
This course might not make you a mediator, it might not teach you everything about this profession or professional field of expression, but it could introduce you to its subject, the sphere of influence and highlights, and would certainly be useful in your daily routine and when resolving another dispute, debate, or conflict with another person.
In our training, we adhere to the idea and purpose of providing deep, useful, accurate, and clear scientifically-based information, which in theory can be used for any purpose and in practice can help anyone. In each lecture, we show the original text of the course, and the goal is a more accessible and proper understanding of the training. In this way, we believe that we support the easier perception and comprehension of scientific information. Also, this way anyone can take notes. We hope you appreciate our goal of giving you as much as possible for a minimum of time.
The course will cover 15 topics:
What is mediation?
Comparison between mediation and court trial.
Comparison between the basic techniques and methods in mediation and court trial.
What is it like to be a mediator?
The three columns of mediation.
The phases of mediation.
Types of decisions in mediation.
Stages of escalation of conflicts.
"The ability to communicate"
What is communication?
The skill of leading a conversation.
Techniques for leading a conversation.
Techniques for asking questions.
"Reflecting Team"
Small group work. Practical exercise.
About the author - Valentin Boyadzhiev is a trained nutritionist, graduated Master of Psychology in "Psychology and Psychopathology of Development". He has acquired Professional Qualification "Teacher of Psychology" and Postgraduate Professional Qualification "Psychological Counseling in Psychosomatic and Social Adaptation Disorders". He has obtained a Psychoanalysis Diploma and he has specialized in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is a member of the Association "Bulgarian Psychoanalytic Space", "International Society of Applied Psychoanalysis" and „International Alliance of Holistic Therapists“. He is a lecturer on issues related to nutrition, diet, supplementation, food, and sports. He is also a teacher and a lecturer in the field of psychology, logic, ethics, law, and philosophy. He has been a school psychologist since 2017. He has been participating annually in scientific conferences on psychology, psychotherapy, dietetics, and medicine. His main interest and practice are in the field of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology.
Best regards,
Valentin Boyadzhiev