Our background association, the Finnish Mediation Forum, has been involved in the Erasmus+ funded ”Restorative Outreach for Youth and Territorial Engagement” or ROUTE project. The project's key output has now been published in English and Finnish. You can download them and read about the project's stages at: www.sovittelu.com/route/
Welcome to the Finnish Mediation Forum's final Spring Mediation Living Room on Wednesday, 3rd June, from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM! Our topic is the connection between body and mind: we'll discuss how mediators can benefit from recognising and managing an overstimulated mind-body system. The presentation will be given by Keijo Halinen (MBB® Master Trainer, https://smbb.fi/) from the Finnish Mind-Body Bridging Association. Keijo will explain: ”Mediation is based on voluntariness, and MBB® (Mind-Body Bridging®) supports the achievement of calmness and peace of mind, enabling..."
Guardians are not proven to receive sufficient information about the bullying prevention methods used in early childhood education and schools. Parents also require practical ways to handle everyday conflicts respectfully. To celebrate our anniversary, we are offering families the opportunity to train together in MiniVerso with their own remote children's training. To participate, you will only need a device (phone, tablet, or computer) that enables a Microsoft Teams remote connection and a Teams link. The training event will take place on Teams and is open to all…
Our supporting association, the Finnish Mediation Forum, is holding its next free remote meeting on Wednesday 6th May. Read more below! May's Mediation Living Room: Explaining the mediation process and principles to parties undergoing mediation (especially in workplace mediation) Welcome to the Mediators' Living Room on Wednesday 6th May from 16:00-17:30! This time, we will be looking particularly at experiences and questions related to workplace mediation. The facilitator will be Maija Gellin, who will initiate a discussion on what and how we explain our mediation process to the parties involved in mediation…
The next joint SOPULA meeting of MiniVerso leaders and mentors is coming up! Join us for a remote meeting on Fri 17.4 at. 12:30-13:30! INCLUDING: joyful colleague encounters from all over Finland as guests from the Oulu Kisakentän kindergarten MiniVerso leaders and Mentors have received a link to participate in an email. If you have not received the link, please contact miniverso@sovittelu.com! What is it about? SOPULA meetings are free maintenance support for trained units and at the same time an opportunity to learn more...
The next free distance meeting of the Finnish Mediation Forum Association is on Wednesday this week. Read more information below! April Mediation Living Room. On Wednesday 1 April at 16.00-17.30, the April Olo room will offer peer support and a look into the future! We will discuss what we mediators are currently thinking about and interested in. On this basis, we will also ask what kind of topics should be discussed in future Living Rooms. The SSF's Living Rooms have been...
Our Programme Manager Janne Johansson and our trainer Nelli Marjakanka had the honour to represent VERSO today at the Rule of Law Clinic on the topic of mediation and alternative dispute resolution. The topic had been requested by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. The Rule of Law Clinic is part of the joint project Achieving Compliance and Cooperation for EU Justice Standards in Ukraine (ACCESS -Ukraine) between the Rule of Law Centre and Democracy Reporting International.Read more here: https://www.helsinki.fi/.../oikeusvaltio.../hankkeet-ja-klinikat Janne and Nelli presented in Finland on the...