MNF is a monthly in-service training and networking opportunity open to everyone. Programs vary each month and may feature guest speakers, skill development workshops or role-plays to sharpen your mediation skills. It is held the fourth Monday of the month about 8-9 months each year from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Come at 7:00pm to network with other mediators. The program begins at 7:30pm sharp. Substantive programs and mediation practice role-plays qualify for re-certification credit.
March 22nd Monday Night Forum: Conflict Transformation from the Inside Out
Presenters: Mary Elizabeth Lynch, J.D. is an attorney/mediator, educator and conflict transformation specialist. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and practiced employment and family law for many years before transforming her professional work into mediation. In 2000 she was a co-founder of the Personal Transformation and Courage Institute, a non-profit educational organization conducting small group course intensive related to enhanced awareness around personal growth and the transformation of internal conflict. She now serves as president of the Institute and is one of its principal course leaders.
Mark Thurston, Ph.D. is Senior Fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Consciousness and Transformation. With an academic background in psychology, Mark has worked for 35 years in adult education related to consciousness, holistic health, and personal transformation. He is author of numerous books related to personal spirituality, dream psychology, meditation, and the transformation of consciousness. Mark and Mary Elizabeth, co-instructors for this workshop, have been married for 29 years.
Workshop Description: To be optimal facilitators of conflict transformation in the world around us, we need to be conscious of our own, internal conflicts and to be actively engaged in healing and transforming those issues. This workshop will explore methods of practice related to understanding, reframing, and beginning to transform our own internal conflicts. As we do so, it can potentially make us more objective and effective practitioners of our crafts as conflict analysts, mediators, peacebuilders, and catalysts for transformative change in the world.
The workshop will include a description and brief practice of self-reflective mindfulness. There will also be an exploration of the role and impact of intentionality (the conscious and unconscious direction in life). “Intentionality” derives from the Latin word intentio, which means being directed towards some goal or thing; and we will explore practices that help us to clarify our own intentionality and its capacity to help transform our inner conflicts so that we can be more effective practitioners in the external world.
CME: 1.5 G or F
Registration:
Please register by sending an email message to training@nvms.us or call Sally Moreland at 703.993.3724
Fees:
$25 for Active Roster Members and $35 for general public. If a forum is not approved for credit then it will be free of charge.
Location:
NVMS Training Center
4041 University Drive Ste. 201
Fairfax, VA 22030
Email Notification:
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