“Shifting the Focus from Mediating the Problem to Mediating the Moment.”
REVIEWS
It was great pleasure to participate in the Mediation Retreat. An instructive, enlightening, educational and cultural journey that enhanced our knowledge in mediating difficult cases and be present in the process! Thanks Greg and Margaret for a great work!
Vicky Liouta, Piraeus, Greece. 2023 Retreat,
Thank you again for conducting a wonderful, thought provoking retreat and showing us a fantastic time in Tuscany. The retreat and the experience was beyond my expectations. There was no fixed program, no PowerPoint teaching slides and no materials handed out. We just went with the flow, discussed things deeply, discovered new things about ourselves, were willingly to reflect and think about them, all with a view of looking at mediation through a different and new pair of eyes.
Kevin Ng, Singapore, 2024 Retreat,
I had no expectations of this event! Little did I know when I booked how important this would be for me and how much I would gain. Each offered a part of ourselves to produce a collective understanding and shared experience that was certainly much greater than the sum of these parts.
Susan Hamilton-Green, Melbourne, Australia 2018 Retreat,
The retreat provides an opportunity for mediators, conflict managers and peace builders to have time and space to pause and reflect in a rural Tuscan setting.
It will explore a human centered approach to mediating in our complex and fluid commercial and social environment.
It includes:
- mediating the moment in the context of the flow
- conflict as a fluid rather than a static event.
- emergence- through interacting rather than analysing
- an agenda that emerges from the interaction of the participants
- intuition that goes beyond pattern recognition
- cleaning your mediation mirror
- embracing complexity and ambiguity
- daring to ‘Un-Lead’
- meditation/mindfulness and reverie
It is suitable for experienced and novice mediators as well as people working in general areas of conflict and peace building
Conducted in English with Greg Rooney and Margaret Ross who have each been practising mediators for more than 33 years working in a broad range of disputes.
The retreat fee is Australian $3,000 Approximately €1,869, £1,581, USD $2,022 DKK 13,946, CAD $2,756 as at July 2024.
It includes all course materials, a welcome reception and meal on Saturday evening for participants and any of their accompanying partners, a long table Tuscan lunch for participants on each day of the workshop plus morning and afternoon coffee and refreshments.
Accommodation Rates:
Accommodation for the week ranges from a special retreat reduced rate of €560 up to €1,060 (3 bedrooms). It is further reduced if you are willing to share an apartment with another participant. Each room has its own bathroom.
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The retreat, at the Fattoria Lottavo, a family run winery in the Chianti region of Tuscany, Italy just South of Florence. Click the button below to view the venue website.
