How do the courses fit together?
This page explains how our courses fit together.
Our course are like stepping stones that you need to step through in sequential order.
So, you start with our first course, 101 Everyday Peacemaking, which teaches the foundational principles of biblical peacemaking and then undertake each course after that in the following order. The reason for this is because each course teaches new content on the presumption that you know the content covered in the previous course.
The first two courses equip you to be a peacemaker in your own life. The next two courses equip you to help one other person to be a peacemaker and the last course equips you to help two or more people to be peacemakers.
Start here! Everyday peacemaking
The foundational course for all our training is our 101 Everyday peacemaking course.
Everyone starts here to learn the foundational principles of biblical peacemaking as these principles form the basis of every other course.
Next step: Heart of peacemaking
The next step is 102 The heart of peacemaking.
This training reinforces the foundational principles but also:
- gives an insight into how our heart impacts conflict and how we can respond more constructively than we often do;
- provides an opportunity to practice how to have difficult conversations with others;
- explores the important issues of grieving and lament; and also
- builds on the concept of building a community of peace.
Next step: Conflict coaching
After completing the personal peacemaking courses (Everyday peacemaking and Heart of peacemaking) you are then ready to undertake the conflict coaching courses 201 Everyday conflict coaching and 202 Deeper into conflict coaching. Both these courses focus on learning how to help one other person in their conflict.
In 201 Everyday conflict coaching, you will:
- discover a simple 4-part process to use in the conversation when coaching;
- explore the character elements and listening skills of a good coach;
- learn how to gently probe the human heart and use Scripture to encourage; and
- be able to practice putting all you have learnt together.
In 202 Deeper into conflict coaching you will:
- have an opportunity to delve deeper and consolidate the skills and principles learned in Everyday conflict coaching;
- spend more time reinforcing how to equip someone to have a difficult conversation with another person with whom they are in conflict;
- practise the learnt 4-part coaching process and coaching skills in both a self reflective case-study as well as in a controlled coaching session.
Next step: go deeper to Everyday Mediation
Once you’ve completed up to 201 Everyday conflict coaching you can also undertake Everyday Mediation. 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
Coming in 2025: Deeper into Mediation
In 2025 we will be offering a Deeper into Mediation Course that people can undertake after completing all 201 Everyday conflict coaching, 202 Deeper into conflict and Everyday Mediation. Further information will be provided in the coming months.
Level one: Personal peacemaking
Our first level of courses helps us to work on conflict in our OWN lives. We have an ‘everyday’ course and a ‘going deeper’ course.
Level two: Conflict coaching
The next level of our training are conflict coaching (helping others through conflict). We have two Conflict Coaching courses: an ‘everyday’ stream and a ‘going deeper’ stream.
Level three: Mediation
The purpose of mediation training is to equip you to use a Christian mediation process to help reconcile two or more people who cannot resolve a conflict on their own.
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