Days Three, Four and Five

Just to complete the outline of what we covered in the Conflict Mediation Training (it got busy!):

DAY THREE

• Mediation Skills: The Story-Telling Stage
• Mediation Skills: The Problem-Solving Stage
• Mediation Skills: The Agreement Stage

DAY FOUR

• Mediating Multi-Party Disputes
• Congregational Conflict: Understanding Conflict in Groups
• Family Systems Theory and Church Conflict
• Designing Effective Group Decision-Making Procedures
• Congregational Conflict: Structuring Dialogue When Anxiety Is High

DAY FIVE

• Mediating Congregational Disputes: An Overview of the Intervention Process
• Mediation Skills: Early Phases of the Intervention
• Mediation Skills: Healing and Problem-Solving Phases
• Mediation Skills: Bringing Closure to the Intervention

I look forward to talking more about the experience, but even more--to implementing it in my pastoral practice.

--Jack Lohr, Interim Pastor