Advoz has planned four conflict resolution trainings.

Conflict, Communication and Culture (CCC) will be conducted via Zoom from Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, to Friday, Jan. 24, from 3 to 6 p.m. This introductory course is a prerequisite to mediation and facilitation trainings with Advoz. The training aims to help participants develop their own conflict style with collaborative tools to resolve conflict in healthy, effective ways, navigating trauma, bias, culture, and blocks to effective listening.

Basic Mediation Training will be offered from Tuesday, Jan. 28, to Saturday, Feb. 1. The program will mix online and in-person learning for a total of 24 hours. Participants will learn and practice the facilitative model of dispute mediation, including a range of mediation techniques adaptable to resolving a wide range of disputes. Attendees will learn about navigating ethical issues particularly relevant to practicing mediation in Pennsylvania. This training emphasizes practicing in numerous roleplay scenarios to ensure quality practice and skill development. The CCC training is a prerequisite.

Group Circle Process Training will be held from Wednesday to Friday, Feb. 19 to 21. TIMES Attendees will learn to build community and address tough issues and harmful incidents in groups of five to 20 people using the restorative circle process. Drawing from indigenous traditions of inclusive and structured group methods, the circle process requires facilitator skills both to guide and to trust the group's capacity for addressing its needs and challenges. The CCC is a prerequisite.

Restorative Justice ("Victim-Offender") Volunteer Facilitator Training will occur from Tuesday, April 29, to Saturday, May 17. The program equips volunteers to help youths who have caused harm to take responsibility directly with the victims of their crimes to cultivate a resilient and responsible generation of young people. The interactive training will equip participants to facilitate restorative conferencing dialogue and to understand the local juvenile criminal-legal systems in which that dialogue takes place. The CCC course is a prerequisite.

For more information and to register, visit https://advoz.org/training/.