Expert Training
The WMO Expert Training is a newly developed course on the interdisciplinary topic of Mindful Mediation & Conflict Management. Our training concept provides the flexibility and accessibility for students to study at their own pace. It considers international research results regarding the sustainable benefits of teaching Comprehensive and Mindful Mediation. Our training program places the focus on understanding conflicts, and the attitude of the human individual. Its pedagogic setting includes self-reflection, thematic input, and putting the content to practice.
WMO does not only talk about a change but truly initiates such within society. We believe that peace-supportive social skills are a human right, and every person should further develop mindful meditative skills in order to have a positive and transforming impact on society. In order to include as many students as possible, we minimized the fee as much as possible. Once a student received the WMO Course Certificate, (s)he can upgrade such to a WMO / EUCLID University Post-Graduate Certificate. Based on a MOU between both authorities, such is granted without further studies.
Program Advisor, Professor William Zartman, on our activities: “I am quite impressed with the ambition and organization of the World Mediation Organization as it seeks to bring together the diverse experiences of mediators – often grassroots mediators – throughout the world and to learn from them. We all need to expand and improve our awareness and practice of mediation.“
Introduction: This cross-border and cross-cultural training does not intend to impose a Western style of Mindful Mediation on another culture. The content of this training emulsifies with the cultural background and language of the student and allows him or her to become a unique professional. In this way, WMO is able to offer the only worldwide achievable training that truly respects and works with global diversity. If you feel that all this is true and highly valuable, then you may understand that to become a successful and effective mediator requires exploring Mindful Mediation’s inner logic.
Author’s Statement: I believe that we should learn a very important lesson, namely that Mindful Mediation is mainly a process of healing others and of healing society. We should try to raise awareness of this specific skill that lies within each of us. In order to do so, I do not want you to study thousands of pages and endless concepts and models to memorize. I want you to properly understand the core of Mindful Mediation and to be able to truly work with a minimized and highly practicable toolset. This journey will be more about self-reflection instead of enlarging the quantity of topics to be studied. The path to the proper personal understanding of what mediation may be includes the acknowledgment of all the diversity that life offers. This is the true secret of my meditation, which I later called mindful mediation. This training concept grants all the necessary space for you to create your own conceptual understanding of mediation. This means that ‘my mediation’ turns into ‘your mediation’ without injecting any sort of dogma into your mind. Therefore, this course will introduce you to deep listening, critical thinking, and wise speaking. Personally, I hope that this content will serve you and your environment at its best.
Structure and Content: The curriculum combines an innovative perspective on the acquisition and the application of knowledge. The innovative online format prepares students for professional challenges on a national and international level. Students will be invited to participate in our growing community by publishing their academic articles, exchanging with global experts, and focusing on developing solutions to nowadays global issues. Due to the preamble on Peace Education, our students become conflict consultants and trainers for conflict resolution at the same time.
The educational concept shows 5 syllabi, each is structured into three parts: Section A – a self-reflection, Section B – the main content of the chapter, and Section C – an article that needs to be created. Such shall be studied part-time within a period of two to six months. The course content, together with your personal reflections, shall empower you to develop and further improve your personal and professional skills in Mindful Mediation.
The course provides an essential overview of topics and issues related to Mindful Mediation and Conflict Management, notably: Mindfulness in Mediation, Applied Mediative Skills, Analyzing and Detecting Conflict, Interpersonal Crisis Communication, Critical Thinking – From Theory to Practice. Thereby, we equip you with the necessary quantity of key skills and insights to truly work in the field. You will be able to understand, remember, and use the skills in due form. Additionally, you will understand that the delivered content is the starting point to finally discover and create your own unique version of the topic.
Course Overview
“From the Mindful Master to the Shapeless Art is a long journey of small steps that can be undertaken with pleasure and profit. Daniel Erdmann has gathered much wisdom and insight for a guidebook on a mediation practice that opens important horizons. It begins with a self-examination of the mediator, ahead of many similar works that start immediately with the mediation process. But that is the second section, where the mediator is presented in three dimensions. We are now ready for the conflict and then for its most acute form, the crisis. Both context and target for the mediation, the dispute that calls for management and resolution, is the ultimate challenge for the mediator, since it involves getting the parties to do what they are not able – and usually willing – to do by themselves. It is for that reason that mediation is a high but dangerous calling, like all mountainous aspirations, and this book will help the climb.”
Ira William Zartman – Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution, SAIS – The Johns Hopkins University
Post Graduate Certificate
Please note that it is strictly required to have duly enrolled and finalized the WMO Mindful Mediation Training before upgrading to the Post Graduate Certificate. Based on the previously mentioned MOU between WMO and EUCLID, such does not include further studies and will be send to your email, shortly after payment.