Restorative Family Mediation™ 40 HR Certificate :

 

This course provides an immersive introduction, practice, and integration of the philosophy and practice of Restorative Family Mediation™ for today’s emerging leaders. It also equips leaders of all kinds (from schools to professionals working towards family strengthening) to address conflict healthily in our certified Restorative Family Mediation™ 40-hour alternative dispute resolution training by the Minnesota State Court Administrator, ADR Program. Students completing the 5 day Restorative Family Mediation course can apply for MN Rule 114 Qualified Neutral status. 

 

Course Description & Introduction:

 

The training course offers students an immersive experience for personal leadership development and transformation, skill building to become a restorative facilitator for all work/family contexts or home environments, or a trained restorative family mediator.

 

Students will join an immersive restorative environment to understand well-differentiated, non-anxious leadership traits and restorative leadership practices. Students will walk with their cohort for a 5 day experience. 

 

5-Day RFM Training Track:

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Restorative Family Mediation™ training is a full one-week online intensive 40-hour training scheduled quarterly. Students will learn the state justice practices of mediation and encourage thoughtful reflection on justice and alternative dispute resolution processes from a family relationship-focused perspective. 

 

• The priorities and expectations of a neutral, including cultural competency and elimination of bias, and how to safeguard and protect the mediation environment from power imbalances.

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• 4 hours of conflict resolution theory, the mediation process, ADR statutes & Rule 114, and The Art of Neutrality (including case studies, teaching, and group discussion)

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• 4 hours of Psychological Issues related to separation and divorce, family dynamics (including case studies, teaching, group discussion, and roleplay)

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• 4 hours of the issues and needs of children in divorce (Psychological issues facing children in divorce/separation through teaching, case studies, group discussion, and roleplay),

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• 6 hours of family issues for family mediation (parenting time, visitation, assets/debt distribution/valuation, custody, child and spousal support, and tax issues). This includes teaching, group discussion, and roleplay.

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• 5 hours of Family Budget and Finances (Family economics, Economics and Mediation, Budgeting for the Future, Case Studies, and Roleplay)

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• 2 hours of Ethics, Self-Determination of Parties, the role of mediators and parties attorneys in facilitative process, parties' rights to terminate process, and prohibition of mediators giving legal advice. (Ethical Standards, Party Self-Determination and Safeguarding/Protecting Mediation environments, Rule 114 Code of Ethics, and Role of Mediator vs Party Attorneys in Mediation, Group Discussion)

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• 2 hours of Domestic Abuse (General Overview), Legal Definitions, Dynamics of Abusive Relationships, and types of power imbalance (includes teaching, case studies, and statistics)

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• 3 hours of Domestic Abuse Screening in Simulation and Roleplay (Includes Common barriers of abusers, indicators of abuse, questionnaires and assessments to determine abuse, techniques for power imbalances including caucus, fishbowl, and community-based options with group discussion and roleplay).

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• 1 hour of legal issues related to Domestic Abuse cases (teaching, group discussion)

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This course is certified and approved by the MN State Court Administration Office for Rule 114 Roster (Family Facilitative/Hybrid Status). Students completing the course can apply for Rule 114 Qualified Neutral status.

 

Training Outcomes for Restorative Family Mediation™:

 

The training is designed for leaders willing to engage in restorative practices and processes for families and groups of people in conflict through a rigorous and immersive academic environment, experiential learning, and personal coaching/development that will:

 

1. Enable them to pragmatically engage a new leadership muscle using restorative skill sets with family, the workplace, leadership positions, and the broader community to influence and uphold the common good by living and leading well.

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2. Support individual growth towards becoming a non-anxious leader.

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3. Develop non-coercive circle environments safe for families with community-based processes to address harm and other challenges that can breakdown family relationships.

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4. Cultivate and apply the basic restorative principles and emerge as a developing restorative leader who responds to family or workplace needs in culturally sensitive and value-driven ways.

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5. Produce personal integration of restorative leadership techniques to engage any group of people in relationship-strengthening, support, team-building, accountability, and even high-conflict scenarios effectively.

 

We are an approved CE provider for the following MN Boards. Rule 114 , MN Boards of Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, Behavioral Health, LPCC, LPC, LADC, and CLE. 40 CEs have been applied for each by The Katallasso Group. 

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SPECIAL NOTE: Participation Expectations for Community Members taking Restorative Family Mediation™:

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Our work is primarily in Health and Human Services, Youth Corrections, and in Schools. Our vision at The Katallasso Group is to empower the local community to become equipped in Restorative Family Mediation to help strengthen and restore family relationships. The majority of our students come from through these channels and our mediation training is built into a truancy prevention program called RESTORE FOCUS. Community members are welcome to join our training, but must be advised that there will be a heavy focus within that context. Community members will only need to pay for the basic Restorative Family Mediation 40 hr training while the rest of the cohort continues after mediation training into RESTORE FOCUS school based programming and support. Learn More about Restore Focus here.