Accredited Mediator Supervision Course

• To learn a straightforward and easily adaptable model of supervision to improve supervisee effectiveness and commitment.
• To understand the key elements, tasks and boundaries of supervision.
• To explore the practical and ethical issues of providing supervision within a workplace mediation context.
• To develop the confidence to work as an in-house or consultant mediation supervisor.

• The principles and background to supervision.
• How to describe one’s own model of supervision and the role of supervisor.
• Observe an experienced supervisor demonstrate a supervision session.
• How to organise for mediator supervision within one’s workplace.
• The skills and qualities required on the part of the supervisee to contribute to an effective supervision session.
• The essential supervisory skills of awareness-raising and giving feedback.
• Through practice, to embed the core skills of effective mediator supervision.
• Critically assess one’s own practice and identify areas for future development.

The course takes a developmental approach, building on the range of skills and experience that each person brings. The trainer is a highly experienced people developer and group worker, who shapes activities and interventions that stretch and educate all participants.

The scheduling of the programme enables participants to schedule supervision sessions with their mediators after Day 2, prior to assessment on Day 3. This will enable the participants to immediately embed learning from the course and to further develop their supervisory skills in advance of the assessment process.

Accredited workplace mediators who want to work as in-house supervisors within an internal mediation service, or who want to offer their supervision services as a consultant.