Community

Empower your community with Phoenix Strategies Inc. Our team provides the tools and resources you need to drive growth and create positive change.

Interested in being mentored by an experienced expert in conflict management or mediation processes, mediator or coach roles?

Gain 60 hours of “hands on” experience working with PSI senior staff conducting mediations, facilitations, coaching, training and research, as well as receive individual one-on-one training and evaluation. Develop mastery of the knowledge and skills of the Collaborative Mediator® Model.

Introductory

  • Exploring Mediation as a career
  • Basic 40 Hour Mediation
  • Optimizing your career as a mediator

Family

  • Family
  • Divorce
  • Eldercare
  • Integrated conflict management for families

Corporate

  • Group Facilitation
  • Workplace
  • Business/Consumer
  • Integrated conflict management for business
  • Conflict Management

Advanced

  • Advanced Mediation
  • Conflict Coaching
  • Mentorship / Coaching
  • Collaborative Mediator Certification
  • Transformative Mediation

Course Descriptions

Phoenix Strategies, Inc. uses a conflict management approach that can be used in your personal life as well as your professional life. This course demonstrates how to bring affected individuals and offenders together collectively in a safe space by using the Standards of Conduct and the Standards of Training and Practice models.

Course Objectives

Participants will learn

  • Define Restorative Justice practice and principles
  • Differentiate between restorative justice and other disputes resolution (DR) practices
  • Gain insight into personal perspectives of victims and offenders
  • Be familiar with the historical movement of
  • Restorative Justice (RJ)
  • Understand victim and offender rights
  • Differentiate between the traditional legal process and a restorative justice approach
  • Realize the RJ benefits for victims, offenders, and the community
  • Experience RJ processes and other Dispute Resolution (DR) processes
  • Define processes for Restorative Conversations, conflict coaching, circles, mediation and peer mediation, and conferencing
  • Know critical indicators for determining appropriateness for conferencing
  • Use strategies and interventions to support appreciation, accountability and empowerment
Prerequisites
40-hour Basic Mediation course from PSI or any other training organization.

A waiver of prerequisite is available for qualifying candidates.

CLE Credits
This course does not offer Continuing Legal Education (CLE) or ethics credits.
Location

Course is offered several times a year at both our Colorado Springs & Denver locations and remotely via Zoom.  Please see the events calendar for upcoming dates.

Tuition
Restorative Justice $620.00 + $30.00 Material Fees

Imagine your 3 x 10 foot patch of grass is mowed by the lawn care company hired by the HOA and the strong-willed neighbor insists that she mows her own postage stamp piece of grass. Or the creative neighbor that wishes to paint all the utility boxes in the neighborhood like decorative birdhouses. They are cute, but not everyone in the neighborhood appreciates her talent. Stage right: enter conflict and the mediator.

Homeowner Associations can be one of the most frustrating organizations with which to work. As an HOA mediator you will learn how formation, governance, dispute resolution processes and issues drive Common Interest Communities. You will also be able to assist in HOA conflict management and resolution. Approved and regulated by the Colorado Department of Higher Education Private Occupational School Board.

Course Objectives

Participants will

  • Discover the different roles, rights and responsibilities of boards, community leaders and homeowners
  • Become familiar with statutes and regulations that impact Common Interest Communities
  • Identify essential elements in governing documents
  • Recognize issues and interests that are common and challenging
  • Review formal and informal complaint and dispute resolution processes
  • Expand information regarding organizations and resources that may be helpful
  • Practice through role-plays to build skill and integrate content
Prerequisites
40-hour Basic Mediation course from PSI or any other training organization. A waiver of prerequisite is available for qualifying candidates.
CLE Credits

The Colorado Real Estate Commission has approved the HOA course for 24 continuing education.

Location

Course is offered several times a year at both our Colorado Springs & Denver locations and remotely via Zoom.  Please see the events calendar for upcoming dates.

Tuition

HOA $620.00 + $30.00 Material Fees

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