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Peer Mediator Training Workshop Presenter Notes - view page 01
01 Opening Page & Poem
Need: "Acting School - Role Play Rules" Poster & "Steps of Mediation/Role Play Rules" two sided placards at each table.
Need: MITs in quads with workbooks and pen/pencil

PLEASE NOTE: The information below supplements the specific flow and process directions of the Student Workbook pages and is reflective of the theory and practice delineated in the 12 page pdf Conflict Management booklet. Therefore, this "teacher's guide" information, the Student Workbook information and the Conflict Management booklet work together for presenters' preparation and should be considered integral to one other. No document stands on its own from a presenter's preparation viewpoint. Use the view page ___ link above, page by page, to view related Student Workbook pages. Download the 12 page pdf Conflict Management booklet to your desktop, read it once, and have it ready as reference as you proceed with preparation.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

First page <01mit.pdf> (240 KB) [01 PMT ] view. An introductory page with date and location of training with line for student's name and workbook care. Tap Steven's Poem, What Makes a Mediator? and presenter and colophon information are included. The poem is read aloud by students in a manner which serves the goal of fostering training class interaction.

Students may complete the date and name of their school as well as putting their name on this page. Misplaced workbooks are easily returned to their owners if the student's name is on the outside (front cover) as well. The outside cover graphic supplied with this material has the URL of the college grad student/student teacher/adult, 12 page, pdf Conflict Management booklet. Motivated MITs may want to visit this site to download this pdf file. If you are a presenter, it is of course, recommended reading. If you are an insomniac totally disinterested in mediation, it is recommended reading for you, also. It's certainly optional (site decision) as to whether or not to leave it (the URL) on your posters around campus. Poster viewers may find value in this and, "the more you know . . .."

This poem by Tap Stevens is well known in mediation training lore. We like the students to read it aloud. Design/modify reading assignment as needed according to your number MITs present. The idea of this activity is to get students to start speaking aloud, and teach them a little about mediation as they read or listen. Each MIT should have read some part of this poem aloud to the whole class when you are finished with this section.

Then, briefly review what this poem says to us, using the discussion pointers below. Make it a consciousness-raising exercise as opposed to a language arts lesson. If the "song" (being there for another person in a healing place) of the poem can be heard, you have fulfilled the poem's purpose here.

Still, we must use some key words for discussion pointers to begin to hear the song.

section 1 - . . . know-how, skill . . . (what we're here for today)
section 2 - . . . heart that's open, feel the other's pain . . . (communication process of mediation whose root is, "to heal."
section 3 - . . . one knows forgiveness works . . . (in so many words, our goal in every mediation)
section 4 - . . . empowerment that sets combatants free . . . (we show disputants that they can choose again)
section 5 - . . . heart that listens, unknown . . . enables for to do themselves . . . came to you . . . (we listen with open hearts and make the way clear for them to find their own solutions). We are here for them.

Finally, we may, if not already having done so, mention who we/you are as presenters.
Colophon-type information is for printing information only.

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