The Dialogue Road Map

We are offering 4 levels of DRM training and accreditation:

1. Core Training:  Learn the basics so you can apply it in your personal or professional life, with clients, colleagues, service users, your partners, family and friends.
2. Facilitator Training: Facilitate 2 party disputes, hold a space for others, to support agreement being reached or communication to happen.  Facilitator level DRM can also be used in traditional mediation.
3. Conductor Training:  Facilitate disputes that are multi party, with different stakeholders.  Facilitate organisational and group change processes.
4. Master Practitioner:  You will be able to deliver the core training yourself

Accreditation: For each step we have an Open College Network accreditation. This will mean you can join our database of practitioners and use your training on your CV and literature. 

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The DRM is Universal wherever there are human relationships that need to continue.

These are some of the settings in which it is currently being applied:

Couples, Families and Parenting

Connecting with Children and Young People

Divorce and Separation

Gang Related Rivalries

Neighbourhood Disputes

Victim / Offender work

Mediation and Dispute Resolution

Mental health, Addictions and Substance misuse

Prisons

Schools

Workplaces

Mental Healthcare

Ex-offender rehabilitation

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• Improve the quality of the conversations you have
• Communicate so everyone trusts they have been heard and understood
• Get engagement even in the face of hostility, anger or resistance.
• Be in authentic dialogue not adversarial positions and notice the difference
• Develop your empathy and listening skills
• Build meaningful relationships
• Feel empowered to express yourself effectively
• Trust in self efficacy even when ambivalence is present.
• Create outcomes that everyone involved feels ownership of.

A DRM Practitioner is assessed as being proficient in using the DRM in one to one conversations. It is the first step in becoming a DRM Master. If you work in a setting where you are regarded as a professional, expert, consultant or therapist then using the DRM will greatly enhance your communication and negotiation skills.

Whether your interest is personal or professional, the place to start is with a minimum of 3 days of training. We advertise our public trainings here.

Accreditation:

Once you have completed 3 days of training you will need to practice to gain experience. You can practice on Skype with other participants.

When you feel confident, you provide answers to a set of questions which help us to check your understanding plus 2 recorded sessions of you using the Dialogue Road Map based on scenarios we give you. These can be recorded using other practitioners or friends and family. We will assess your proficiency and either ask for more evidence or approve you as a DRM Practitioner.

Once approved, you will appear on our website as a DRM Practitioner and may use the title on your CV.

See the DRM accreditation Fee structure

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A DRM Facilitator is assessed as being proficient in using the DRM in two party disputes. It is the second step in becoming a DRM Master. If you work in a leadership, therapeutic or professional role where you are expected to manage conflict and resolve disputes, then the DRM Facilitator training will equip you to manage conflict and mediate between two parties. You may also want to charge people for your service as a mediator.

The pathway to becoming a DRM Facilitator is to complete a minimum of 6 days of training (3 of these may have been your original practitioner training). We advertise our public trainings here. You will then be expected to practise and produce some case studies and be either observed or recorded. We will discuss the most appropriate way for you to build your portfolio depending on the context in which you want to use the DRM as a Facilitator.

When we all agree that your proficiency is up to standard, you will appear on our website as a DRM Facilitator and may use the title on your CV and advertise yourself as a mediator supported by Peaceful Solutions.

See the DRM accreditation Fee structure

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Facilitate disputes that are multi party, with different stakeholders.  Facilitate organisational and group change processes – More info coming soon

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This is a specialised process which is specifically tailored to your situation. We work collaboratively with you, supervising and mentoring you to become a DRM Master. It is a journey which you do at your own pace. Once you are approved as a DRM Master you will have access to training materials so that you can train and supervise others.

You will be among a small group of selected people who can truly replicate and develop the work of the Centre for Peaceful Solutions. You will be named on the website as a DRM Master.

See the DRM accreditation Fee structure

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* We are in an exciting phase of development. From 2006 to 2016 we have trained over 2000 people. Now we want to accelerate our growth and we want to train 1000 people as soon as possible. To make this possible we have reduced our training fee significantly until we reach 1000 people.

** You can form a group of 6 people to be part of a practice group which significantly reduces the per person fee. Sessions can be on Skype.

*** Assessment is dependent on production of a Portfolio which is externally accredited by the Open College Network

**** The DRM Portal is our online community where you can access resources, accreditation materials and find people to practice with

Please remember that all the fees are paid to the charity Centre for Peaceful Solutions and after all costs have been recouped the surplus goes towards funding the work we do in Justice, Families and Education.

We would love to answer your questions, hear your experiences, talk more about our work and explore opportunities

Please email us or call Maria and David on 020 8453 0086

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