APFM Webinar Series: "Bringing Unconscious or Inner Thinking into the Mediation Process to Create Understanding Between Parties"

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*** Training Announcement from APFM ***

APFM Webinar Series:

"Bringing Unconscious or Inner Thinking into the Mediation Process to Create Understanding Between Parties"
December 6, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Eastern
Online

Presenter:  Gerry O’Sullivan

Gerry O’Sullivan will deliver a brief overview of “The S Questions Model”, developed in her book: The Mediator's Toolkit: Formulating and Asking Questions for Successful Outcomes, New Society Publishing, Canada.
 
She will then focus on one of the methods of questions that can lead to a paradigm shift in the thinking of parties, in particular, the  “Journey of Inference Questions” which explores a person’s journey from their observations and interpretations through their resulting and linked actions/reactions.
 
This template of strategic mediation questions serves to make a party’s unconscious thinking process conscious and links their actions/non-actions to the interpretations and assumptions they made during a precipitating event. These questions introduce new insight to the parties and create understanding between them. They shift a party’s perspective from their old narrative towards a new and healthier narrative.
 
Methodology:
Theoretical motion-graphic presentation with examples and discussion, followed by a filmed roleplay that demonstrates the application of the theory to practice, and followed by a plenary discussion with questions and answers.

Fee:  Free to APFM members; $50 nonmembers

Register:  https://apfmnet.org/webinar-bringing-inner-thinking-into-the-mediation-process/