TARGETS

The Pluralist Systemic Family Mediation course aims to train operators and professionals experienced in the reorganization of family relationships in situations of family conflict, also in view of or following the separation or divorce of the couple.

The preparation in mediation allows the students to acquire:

• knowledge of the pluralist systemic model and specific techniques for mediating family conflicts;
• tools to decipher the communicative styles of the couple and the family in conflict;
• tools to activate the individual resources of the parental couple so as to avoid, in particular to the children, future fears and inconveniences;
• tools to accompany the couple towards constructive and personalized agreements;
• greater awareness of the prejudices of the mediator and the couple, with particular attention to emotions, regarding issues such as family, marriage,
• parenting, transition crisis, relationship conflicts, separation, divorce, child custody and shared custody;
• greater awareness of the constraints and possibilities associated with the issues listed above.

STRUCTURE

The family mediation course is biennial and includes a total of 360 hours divided into teaching modules. The training hours, for each year, are divided as follows:

• theoretical and experiential lessons (80h.)
• theoretical thematic seminars (30h.)
• residential day (30h.)
• During the two-year period, a 60-hour Internship and 20 hours of case supervision are also provided.

Methodology

• Theoretical lessons
• group discussion
• Observation and study of cases in vivo and through the use of video recordings
• Readings and accompanying bibliography
• Simulate

Particular attention will be paid to the style and personal biography of the students through a work on the group and on the family and professional history of the individual participants.

A central characteristic of the pluralist model is to ensure that choices and decisions are negotiated through responsible co-construction between the family and the mediator, taking into account the specific characteristics of the families and the context. Furthermore, Shinui's pluralistic model pays particular attention to the work on the self and the autobiography of the students, to the work on emotions, gender prejudices and cultural differences.

Timetable and location of lessons

The lessons of the course to become a family mediator will be held in the Bergamo office of Shinui, via Divisione Tridentina n. 5, on Saturdays, from 9.30 to 17.30. Theoretical-thematic seminars are usually held at the La Porta center in Bergamo together with the students of the Counseling School.

Supervisions

During the training course there is a 20-hour supervision cycle conducted by an AIMS teacher to accompany the student in his / her work during the internship.

The cost is € 350 + VAT for groups of at least 7 people. The cost of individual supervisions, lasting 1h 30 ', is € 80 + VAT.

Internship

Each student must agree on a 60-hour internship project with the tutor or the head of the family mediation course. The internship includes family mediation courses with couple or family meetings. You are asked to follow three cases, of which at least two directly.

Thesis

The student will choose a specific topic related to the family mediation course, which was particularly interesting for him during the internship, developing it theoretically and interweaving it with practice. In addition to the thesis, to take the AIMS exam, each student must produce a portfolio containing:

• internship project
• final report on the internship
• supervision path report
• illustration of three cases
• course evaluation questionnaire

During the presentation and discussion of the thesis, the final exam to become a family mediator will be taken in the presence of the association's teachers and an external professor who is an AIMS ordinary member.

RECIPIENTS

The family mediation course is aimed at all those professionals, social workers, educators, teachers, psychologists, doctors, lawyers, etc. who in their professional practice find themselves managing conflicts and negotiating between disagreeing parties.

TEACHERS

Scientific responsible

Dr. Cecilia Edelstein - psychologist and social worker, family therapist and family mediator, supervisor counselor and counselor trainer, ethnopsychologist, trained in Israel, the United States and Italy. President of the Shinui association - Relationship Advice Center. Director of the Systemic Counseling School of Bergamo. Member of the didactic committee of the International Association of Systemic Mediators (A.I.M.S.).

Course teachers:

Dr. Guido Veronese - family, couple and individual psychotherapist and family mediator with a systemic orientation. PhD in Clinical Psychology, he collaborates as research fellow with the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Milan Bicocca. He deals with emergency psychology in collaboration with the Institute for Family Therapy and research "Al Madina" in Nazareth.

Dr. Anna Consiglio - Psychologist and psychotherapist, she specialized in the analysis of the cases of the Harvard Business School with G. Gohetals (PhD Harvard University) and on the Systemic Relational perspective with A. Ugazio; he also obtained his specialization in Family Therapy at the Center for Systems Analysis and Family Therapy of M.L. Vinci and A. Vita. Freelancer, as a psychologist, family therapist and trainer, he has collaborated with the USSL of Milan and Cernusco sul Naviglio and with the Juvenile Court of Milan. Member of the teaching staff of the Counseling School of Bergamo and of the clinical team.

Dr. Luigi Ubbiali - Teacher, school and private Counselor, enrolled in the National Register of Counselors, graduated in Educational Sciences, teacher of the School of Relational Systemic Counseling of Bergamo and member of the teaching staff in external training. Forms part of the team supervising socio-educational projects of the association's territory.

The school also makes use of the collaboration of nationally and internationally renowned experts.

Some seminars and / or thematic lessons will be conducted by teachers outside the school, AIMS teachers.

Current collaborators external to the Shinui Family Mediation course in Bergamo, all AIMS teachers:

• Dr. Pasquale Busso - Director of the Center for Eteropoiesis Studies - Turin, Professor of Family Psychology of the Salesian Pontifical University, Turin office. Member of the A.I.M.S.
  Rodolfo de Bernart - Past President of AIMS, directs the Institute of Family Therapy in Florence (ITFF).
• Dr. Giancarlo Francini - Psychologist psychotherapist with systemic relational orientation, co-founder of the Institute of Family Therapy in Siena. He also carries out teaching activities at the Institute of Family Therapy in Florence and the Institute of Family Therapy in Bologna. Ordinary Clinical Member AIMS.
• Dr. Roberta Marchiori - Psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher of the Milanese Center of Family Therapy, teacher of systemic therapy of the Paduan Center of Family Therapy, member of the AIMS teacher, coordinator and teacher of the Family Mediation session of the CPTF, SIPPR teacher.
• Dr. Mariotti Mauro - Child Neuropsychiatrist, psychiatry and first generation systemic psychotherapist, is the founder of the ISCRA School of Specialization in Psychotherapy, Mediation and Counseling in Modena. Creator and founder of AIMS, former president of SIRTS, treasurer of the European Mediation Forum, member of the board of the CNCP. He is responsible for research for the EFTA (European Family Therapy Association) and member of the SIPPR research commission. He is a 12-volume editor and many book chapters including systemic counseling. Technical consultant for the Courts of Rome, Bologna, Modena, Ferrara, Padua. He promoted the Counseling training for the educators of the Ausl of Modena and has dedicated himself to this sector since 2005 by promoting and managing the ISCRA Counseling School together with Fabio Bassoli.
• Dr. Lia Mastropaolo - Director of the Genoese School of Mediation and Systemic Counseling and co-director of the Genoese Center of Family Therapy. Founding member of the Italian Family Mediation Society (S.I.ME.F.), statutory member of the European Forum and member of GEMME (Groupment Europèen des Magistrats pour la Médiation).
• Dr. Aldo Mattucci - Psychiatrist, systemic psychotherapist, family mediator, director of the Veneto Institute of Family Therapy, AIMS Vice President.
• Dr. Dino Mazzei - Psychologist, systemic relational psychotherapist and family mediator, director of the Institute of Family Therapy of Siena and of the School of specialization in family and relational psychotherapy, responsible for training on family mediation and legal advice. Among other publications, he is the author of the book The family mediation. The trigenerational symbolic model, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
• Dr. Ruggiero Giuseppe, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and systemic mediator, is director of the Institute of Medicine and Systemic Psychology of Naples (IMePS), President of AIMS, elected President of FIAP (Italian Federation of Psychotherapy Associations) and founding member of the AITF (Association of Family Therapy Institutes). Former President of the CNCP.
• Dr Sclavi Marianella - Writer and scholar of the Art of Listening and Creative Management of Conflicts. He lived in New York from 1984 to 1992, where he wrote two books, A span from the ground, and The Lady goes to the Bronx, in which he experimented and proposed an ethnographic narrative guided by "a humorous methodology". Back in Italy she taught Urban Ethnography at the I Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic from 1993 to 2008. Currently she works as a freelancer facilitator of participatory processes and teaches "Conflict Management" in the Master "Conflict Mediators - International Peace Workers" of Bologna and Bolzano.

CONTENTS

Objectives and contents of the family mediation course:

• aims to introduce students to the knowledge of the epistemological and practical foundations of systemic theories, to work with the couple, families and social groups;
• intends to work on the operator's self.
• Theoretical foundations of the systemic model
• The pluralist systemic model
• Communication theories
• Conflict theories
• Relational observation methodologies
• The life cycles of the couple and the family
• Social transformations of the family: recomposed families (called patchwork by us) and multicultural families
• Gender differences
• Epistemology of the conflict
  Mediation paths 1: methods and techniques, from responsible co-construction to the concept of mediation
• Clinical model and techniques for conducting the relationship
• Interview techniques 1
• Fundamentals of Family Law

The aim of the second year is to allow the student to know, consolidate and apply the main conflict management and mediation techniques, typical of the pluralist systemic approach.

Conflict assessment, Mediation paths 2:

• context and demand analysis, the mediation contract
• Interview techniques 2
• Specific mediation techniques according to the A.I.M.S and pluralistic systemic models
• Legal aspects of the separation and divorce process
• The profession of mediator: ethical and deontological aspects
• Application contexts of mediation practices:
• School mediation
• Criminal mediation
• Community mediation in organizations and social groups
• The boundaries between Counseling, mediation and therapy: differences and affinities between the A.I.M.S systemic model and the pluralist systemic model.
  
  

Shinui also offers an Intercultural Family Mediation course to allow further study on the subject.

REGISTRATION AND COSTS

Candidates will be able to access the course to become a family mediator by sending their professional curriculum with photos, a photocopy of their educational qualification and a motivational letter, to the Shinui secretariat (by e-mail or regular mail). A motivational interview with one of the association's teachers will then be held.

The curricula will be examined according to the order of arrival, the group will consist of a maximum of 15 students per year.

To enroll in the course, a payment of € 100 + VAT is required.

The annual cost of the course is € 1,800 + VAT.

The cost of 20 h. supervision is € 350 + VAT for groups of at least 7 people.

The cost of individual supervision, lasting 1h 30 ', is € 80 + VAT.

It is possible to pay by bank transfer:

IBAN: IT 10 S 05034 11109 000000001701

Support bank: Credito Bergamasco - Upper Town Agency

For the residential sector, the figure fluctuates around 50 Euros net for full board (accommodation and meals).

To obtain the qualification of Systemic Family Mediator, students must register at AIMS as members in training (30 Euros per year).

For more information contact the secretary.

Here the first year calendar.