CommonSense
Mediation Academy
Are you passionate about peacemaking?
Learn dispute resolution skills, hone your mediation abilities, meet like-minded professionals, develop your business plan and more!
Every person has a story.
Let us help you learn how to uncover the story.
Join our CommonSense Mediation Community!
NEW COURSE!
4-Day CORE Training
Safe & Together
January 14-17, 2025
CORE is a four-day training designed to provide a skills-oriented foundation for domestic abuse-informed practice. Each day will provide key skills and learnings for participants to implement the Safe & Together Model into their practice.
40 Hour Family Mediation Training
IN person!
Join us November 20 – 24, 2023 for this action-packed course!
If you want to become a Family Mediator under Section 44.01 of The Queen’s Bench Act, 1998, this is the course for you!
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CommonSense
Mediation Academy
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to enhance your skills, we offer a range of online and in-person mediation training courses tailored to meet your needs. From introductory to advanced levels, we have the perfect fit for you!
- Introduction to Mediation: Begin your journey with the foundational principles and techniques.
- Family Mediation Training: Learn to navigate and resolve complex family dynamics.
- Specialty Training: Gain expertise in niche areas of mediation for specialized scenarios.
Saskatoon Mediation
Practice Group
Join a network of passionate dispute resolution practictioners! The Mediation Practice Group is an opportunity to learn and grow with other, new, learning, and seasoned mediators.
By clicking join now, you will be added to our newsletter distribution list and receive links and reminders about the monthly events the Mediation Practice Group hosts.
Book of the Month!
What`s Your Proposal? By Bill Eddy
#bookofthemonth #negotiations #goodreads
Get ready for 2025! Plan your educational journey with CommonSense Mediation Academy 🙌
#training #mediation #2025
Much like the domestic feline, office babies are attracted to the warmth of laptops.
#officebaby #thenandnow #officelife
When shredded paper is not available, office babies will nest using books.
#officebaby #thenandnow
Because they are closely related to tree dwelling babies, office babies will often take refuge in bookshelves.
#officebaby #thenandnow
A rare creature, the office baby makes its nest with shredded paper in drawers.
#officebaby #thenandnow
My little helper is sleeping on the job 😂
#online #mediation #courses #ADRBC
In January, we are partnering with PATHS to offer the Four day CORE Safe & Together Training - this training helps people recognize and respond to intimate partner and family violence.
#training #DV #IPV
Our office @broadway.collective 🙌 #mediation #training #office
@readwithdemi is coaching the ADRBC offering of the National Introductory Mediation Course!
CommonSense Mediation Academy is honoured to support ADRBC`s training 🙌
#mediation #ADRBC
Have a happy & safe Halloween!
#Halloween
Great time at the ADRIC conference in Toronto 🙌
#ADRIC #ADRIO #conference #YYZ
Learning healthy ways of engaging in conflict is an important life skill!
#conflictresolution #conflictengagement #mediation
Negotiation Skills can help you in your personal and professional life🙌
#negotiate #mediation #onlinelearning
Coming Soon!
These sample courses will give you a glimpse into the full course and provide you with a digital badge!
#minicourses #learning #online
Conflict can be difficult to clean up - through mediation and other conflict engagement strategies, you can come out the other side all tidied up, with new skills and stronger relationships 🙌
#mediation #conflictengagement #communication
Improve your negotiating and bargaining skills by taking this NEW course!
In the Interest-Based Negotiation course, you will learn the basics of interest-based negotiation, how to apply it, and what opportunities there are to be a professional negotiator.
Not sure if you want to take the full course?
When this course goes LIVE there will also be a taster course available for people who want an overview of the course content, but are not ready to commit to taking the full offering.
For more information, please email: admin@commonsensemediation.ca
#interestbasednegotiation #courses #onlinelearning
There was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He walked on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.
Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”
The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”
The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
adapted from The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977)
#starfishstory #disputeresolution #mediation
NEW courses alert!
2025 includes great new offerings here at CommonSense Mediation Academy 🙌
#mediation #training #negotiation #2025 #courses
Difficult conversations can feel like getting lost in a maze.
Mediators can help you navigate the maze and get you to the other side! 🙌
#cornmaze #difficultconversations #mediation
Do you know what`s hard to do? Learn to ride a bike.
You know what you`ll never forget? How to ride a bike.
Mediation is similar! It can be overwhelming to learn the communication and facilitation skills it takes to be a mediator, but once you have, you will have a life-long skill that will help you navigate personal and professional disputes and conflict! 🙌
#mediation #training #learning #disputes #conflicts #mediator
September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
This day honours the children who never returned home and survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.
We remember the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools because it is a vital component of the reconciliation process.
#NDTR
Which facts about conflict do you already know?
Which facts are new to you?
Do you have any facts about conflict not included in this list?
Comment below! 👇
#conflict #mediation #conflictmanagement #disputeresolution
“Intention means every decision, from the most obviously significant to the seemingly mundane, matters.”
― Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
#bookclub #bookofthemonth #mediation #hospitality #mediators #disputeresolution #conflictmanagement
Family Mediation Training last week was a blast!
Do you want to become a mediator? 👀
Check out our course options at www.commonsensemediation.ca 🙌
#mediation #training #familymediation #courses
Our youngest participant ever completes their mediation training today 🙌
The Littlest Mediator participated in our training, along with their mama 💕
Thank you to our participants for creating a welcoming environment for this new mom & 3-week-old baby to take our training 🤗
#littlestmediator #mediators #mediation #training #familymediation #courses
We love books! 📚
Here`s a small selection for co-parents and children who are navigating the reconfiguration of their family unit 🙌
#coparenting #mediation #familymediation #training #courses #resources
First day of family mediation training 🙌
#mediators #mediation #familymediation #training #courses
Upcoming Family Mediation Training: September 9 - 13
We are filling up fast!
If you are interested, please get in touch ASAP to get a seat in this fantastic training.
#familymediation #training #courses #disputeresolution
What are you reading this month? 👀
This month we read Putting Kids First in Divorce.
In this book we learn helpful information about how to reduce conflict, preserve relationships, and protect children during and after the divorce process.
For more great book recommendations, visit the resource page on our website:
www.commonsensemediation.ca
#books #mediation
We`re moving physical location!
CommonSense Mediation Academy is the training branch of Panko Collaborative Law & Mediation and we are moving from 4th Avenue to Broadway!
Email us if you have any questions or would like to schedule a time to come visit us in our new home:
admin@commonsensemediation.ca
#mediation #training #Saskatoon #BroadwayYXE
What are you reading this month? 👀
We`re reading The Self-Aware Leader by John C. Maxwell!
Have you read it? Comment your thoughts below ⬇️
#reading #leadership #books #read #goodbooks #goodreads #nonfiction #professionaldevelopment
How can you help people grow in their cooperation and creativity? 👀
#quotes #mediation #disputeresolution #confictmanagement
Is your schedule hectic? Fit training into your schedule with online course options!
#mediation #training #disputeresolution #onlinelearning
Have you checked out our CommonSense Mediation Blog?
We put up a new post each month with different topics related to dispute resolution - July`s post is about power dynamics in mediation!
Read more here: https://loom.ly/J6Jsfew
#blog #learning #mediation #disputeresolution
Help people triumph over conflict - become a mediator!
#mediation #mediators #conflict #disputeresolution
Tonight at Mediation Practice Group we discussed "what does neutrality mean?"
As mediators, we act as impartial third-parties, but what happens if someone indicates there are illegal activities going on, coercive control, or something else that could effect the integrity of the mediation process?
If this topic interests you, join our mediation practice group to add to the conversation!
#mediationpracticegroup #mediators #networking #professionaldevelopment
Have a very happy Canada Day!
#canadaday
Happy Social Media Day! Like, Share, & Follow!
#socialmedia
Disputants can often achieve more in mediation than they can through arbitration or litigation 🙌
#mediation #disputeresolution #communication #mediating
