Promoting the choice to mediate
Promoting the choice to mediate
October 20, 2025 – October 22, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration will close at noon on Thursday, October 16, 2025. early-bird pricing ends on September 12.
November 20, 2025 • 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
This 3-hour CLE program will prepare attendees to serve as volunteer mediators for Philadelphia’s Eviction Diversion Program (EDP). The EDP provides an opportunity for landlords and tenants to participate in (free) mediation before an eviction complaint is filed.
Panelists will address the following topics among others:
Advoz: Mediation & Restorative Practices, a Lancaster-based PCM member center offers the following in-person and online trainings, and PCM Members qualify for a discount on Professional Registration ($20+) with coupon code PCMDISC. See advoz.org/training for updates.
A 1-day introductory course with CLEs and CEUs available on one of the following dates:
Gain valuable conflict tools, increase your communication skills and ground yourself in age-old principles for addressing conflict and harm, all in a supportive hands-on group setting. This introductory course lays the groundwork for advanced training in Mediation and/or Restorative Practices methods, developing your own conflict style with collaborative tools to resolve conflict in healthy, effective ways while navigating issues such as hurt and harm, bias and culture, and listening blocks.
This course qualifies PA attorneys for 7 hours of CLEs (5 substantive and 2 ethics) and for licensed social workers and marriage and family therapists, 7 CEU hours. This in-person training is a prerequisite for other Advoz training courses.
Learn and practice the facilitative model of conflict mediation, including a range of mediation techniques adaptable to resolving a wide range of disputes. Learn to empower, support and guide parties toward resolution in such disputes as neighbors, family members and workplace employees and employers, including navigating key ethical issues particularly relevant to practicing mediation in Pennsylvania. This training emphasizes practicing in multiple roleplay scenarios to ensure skill development and participants will leave with an outline to assist a co-mediator in a variety of mediations. Note: The Conflict, Communication & Culture course is required to take this training.
Offered for the first time in person, this course provides a framework and practice for leading challenging 1-to-1 conversations in personal, professional, and community work. The experiential 6-hour workshop builds on the basic awareness and skills of restorative conflict approaches with a model for engaging restoratively with someone in conflict. Designed especially for leaders, supervisors and coaches, the workshop uses the framework of Dr. Bruce Perry’s 3 R’s of “neurosequential” trauma-informed engagement to: Regulate, Relate, Reason and Restore. Note: The Conflict, Communication & Culture course is required to take this Advoz training.
Want to facilitate often transformative exchanges between those who’ve caused harm, and those impacted? Advoz’s Restorative Justice program equips volunteers to help youth who’ve caused harm take responsibility directly with those impacted, crime victims, to cultivate a resilient and responsible generation of young people. This interactive training equips you to facilitate restorative “conferencing” dialogue and to understand the local juvenile criminal-legal systems in which that dialogue takes place.
This course includes online asynchronous components, 2-3 hours of self-directed learning in between live sessions. The introductory Advoz Conflict, Communication & Culture training is also required to receive a certificate, and you will need to register for both trainings separately. Dates/times include:
Go to www.advoz.org/training for more information and updates.