Welcome to the new partnership mediation course
The legend tells that thousands of years ago, all humans spoke the same language. This allowed them a very high ability to cooperate with each other. However, according to the legend, humans chose not to cooperate for good purposes that would benefit the world, but rather to compete with the gods. To demonstrate their abilities to the gods, humans began building a tall tower that would reach the heavens, a tower that would allow them to be equal to the gods. The gods did not like this. Seeing the tower growing, they decided to dismantle it and punish humans by preventing them from continuing to cooperate. They did this by splitting the one language into thousands of different languages. As a result, humans could no longer speak to each other in the same language, dispersed across the world, and stopped cooperating.
The division among humans led to great hatred, wars in which millions died, extremism in discourse, and a harsh reality where people still cannot tolerate opinions different from their own. We want to change this reality.
The New Partnership Mediation Course is a sincere attempt by the International Mediation Office of Nadav Nishri Mediators to change the discourse and create a common language for all humans – the language of mediation. Mediation language is one that allows its speakers to converse with every man and woman regardless of language, gender, race, religion, or nationality. It's a language that fosters dialogue based on common interests, one that enables connection and growth, especially through crises and conflicts.
This online course consists of 10 lessons (approximately 30 minutes each), offered free of charge in various languages using artificial intelligence tools, aiming to create unity in messages and working methods. Regardless of the language you speak, you can watch the course in your mother tongue.
During the course, you will learn among other things:
– How to conduct a successful mediation process
– How to create collaborations in personal life
– How to separate the person from the problem
– How to create dialogue between people in conflict
– How to calm the parties in conflict
– How to turn every conflict into an opportunity for growth and to improve your relationships
Mediators are people who know how to turn disputes into opportunities for improving relationships, and they also know how to help people resolve complex disputes in their lives. Mediators understand that conflicts are inevitable wherever there are people: in families, businesses, workplaces, and more. Therefore, the question we, the mediators in the New Partnership method, always ask is how to manage the conflicts in our lives optimally and how to use them to improve our lives. We firmly believe that the more people who know about the New Partnership method and act according to its rules, the better world we will live in and together we can build real hope for peace among people.
The "New Partnership" mediation method, developed by mediator Nadav Nishri, is built from experience accumulated in thousands of complex mediation processes. The basis of the method is the understanding that by managing correctly and focusing on the common and connecting elements between parties, any conflict can be turned into one that strengthens the relationship and leads to the discovery of creative solutions for the benefit of all involved parties.
Creating dialogue in times of crisis is a lofty goal in our eyes, and because of its importance for the future of our world and especially for the future of our children, we offer this course for free and without any obligation on your part. Our only request is that you watch the course, practice the messages and tools in it, and spread them in your environment.
Let's be the light that drives away the darkness from the world.
Lesson | Study Topic |
1 | What is mediation? Who is the mediator? The history of mediation, basic assumptions, and conflict definition. |
2 | The causes of conflict, the ABC model and iceberg model, the effect of biology on party behavior in conflict, common approaches to conflict management, collaborative versus competitive negotiation, key personality traits, and how to deal with them in conflict. |
3 | Possible ways to resolve conflicts, the interface between mediation and law, hard and soft strategies, the prisoner's dilemma, collective versus individual perception, the seven-element model, position, and interest. |
4 | Recognizing alternatives, Batna & Watna, creating additional options (expanding the pie), using accepted standards, maintaining and improving relationships during and after the conflict, and building positive communication. |
5 | Creating commitment, options for officially approving an agreement, separating the person from the problem, conflict perception, changing emotions, and dealing with them, turning the voluntariness of the mediation process into an advantage, confidentiality of mediation, and common types of mediation. |
6 | The differences between the mediation process and the legal process, the role of lawyers and the legal system in exacerbating conflict, and possible ways to deal with them and to recruit lawyers in favor of the mediation process. |
7 | Prominent areas of mediation, main tools of the mediator, joint and separate conversations, the mediation room, and how to create the right conditions for mediation. |
8 | Reality testing, the process outside the mediation room, peer dialogue, the importance of asking questions, types of questions, and adapting them to the situation, the opening conversation, and the mediation process opening agreement. |
9 | De Bono's Six Thinking Hats, ethics in the mediation room, confidentiality in mediation, is a negotiation ending without an agreement a failure?, emphasis on writing a mediation agreement. |
10 | Advantages and disadvantages of free negotiation, traditional versus modern approach in resolving conflicts, building a community from conflict, mediation as a social process, negotiation in time dimensions, internal, personal, group, and international conflicts, overt and covert negotiation, social norms, direct and indirect negotiation, multi-party mediation, the hidden and concealed dimension, and summary. |