Name: Everyday Mediation
Start: 2026-11-19T08:30:00+1100
End: 2026-11-20T16:30:00+1100
Location: Melbourne School of Theology

19 November 2026 - 20 November 2026
2 days, 08:30 AM AEDT - 04:30 PM AEDT

Melbourne School of Theology
5 Burwood Hwy
VIC

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Everyday Mediation

Our presenters

Wayne Forward

Wayne Forward is the CEO of PeaceWise, a speaker and trainer who helps people become peacemakers for life. His own journey into peacemaking began with a desire to grow as a leader. What he learned helped transform a personal relationship and deepened his conviction that peacemaking is part of how we live and share the gospel.

Wayne helps people see conflict as an opportunity for discipleship: a place to step out in faith, practise grace and trust Jesus when relationships are hard. Drawing on his experience as a Baptist pastor, in global missions and in mental health nursing, he brings a pastoral and practical approach to training. He has spoken and delivered training across Australia and internationally, helping leaders, teams, churches, schools and organisations respond to conflict in healthy ways.

Wayne is married to Amy. They have three children, and he enjoys triathlons, good food and time with people.

Joanne Hood

Jo is a leadership coach, facilitator, and senior HR professional with more than 20 years of applied global experience including in organisations such as KPMG, Deloitte, Grant Thornton and Accenture. Jo has a practical, down-to-earth approach to equipping people leaders as they lead and support their team. Years of experience working through complex people issues gives Jo empathy for the challenges leaders face in the modern workplace. She is the Executive Director People & Culture for Empatia.

Description

In this training you will learn skills and process to help two or more people reconcile and address issues between them that they have not been able to resolve on their own.

This training leverages all the earlier skills you have learned through our personal peacemaking and conflict coaching courses, as you learn to help parties address both relational and material issues through a distinctively Christian mediation process.

In the Everyday Mediation course you will:

understand the foundation and distinguishing features of Christian mediation and the role a mediator plays in the process
learn a Christian mediation framework for helping parties requiring assistance in everyday conflict
learn how to use peacemaking principles and tools to conflict coach people in preparation for and during an everyday mediation process
understand how to create a safe everyday mediation process using the “GOSPEL” process for people requesting mediation assistance
build confidence to facilitate everyday mediations through multiple role play opportunities to practise the skills and principles of everyday Christian mediation

This course is subject to minimum registration numbers. If these are not met, the training may be cancelled. In that event, we will contact you to discuss alternative dates or a full refund.

Prerequisites

Please note the following are ALL prerequisite courses that must be completed prior to this course.

1. Everyday Peacemaking and

2. Heart of Peacemaking

or Personal Peacemaking Intensive

and

3. Everyday Conflict Coaching

Special offers

Cancellation policy

Please note our cancellation policy:

Up to one month before the course – $25 admin fee
From 1 month to 1 week before the 1st day of training – 50% of the fee will be refunded.
Within one week before the course – no refund will be given*

*For illness or emergency, a refund or fee credit will be supplied. A fee credit must be used within 1 year. Registrants are responsible for registering for future training with credit supplied.

Registrations close 2 business days prior to the training.