Community Mediation Services of Lane County

presents its annual

32-Hour Basic Mediation Training

This training meets the requirements for mediators set out in Chapter 36 of the Oregon Revised Statutes and in the Oregon Administrative Rules.  Successful completion of this training will make you eligible to mediate as a volunteer at Community Mediation Services (CMS) as well as many other State-funded mediation centers in Oregon.  In addition, you will be able to apply the skills you learn to your personal relationships - improving communication between you and your spouse, partner, children, employer, colleagues and more.

Our curriculum: 

• The context and overview of the mediation process
• Communication skills for mediators including such things as active listening, reframing, validating, empathizing, clarifying, and summarizing
• Helping parties tell their stories
• Separating positions and interests
• Generating and evaluating options
• Writing agreements
• Role Plays
• Oregon's mediation statutes, rules, ethics and standards
• And much, much more!

Our trainers:

Chip Coker, Executive Director of CMS.  Chip was trained and certified as a mediator in 1998 by the Orange County Human Relations Commission in California and has since mediated over 50 cases.   While in law school, Chip focused on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) subjects, including negotation, arbitration and mediation - and earned a Bancroft-Whitney American Jurisprudence Award for his coursework in Advanced ADR.  Since then, Chip has been licensed to practice law in three states, as well as before the US Supreme Court, and has emphasized mediation in his law practice.  Before becoming our Executive Director, Chip was most recently an in-house attorney for Umpqua Bank. 

Ted Lewis, CMS Program Manager.  Ted has been involved with mediation work since 1996, managing restorative justice programs in both Kansas and Eugene, and providing annual trainings in victim offender mediation work. Since 2000 he has done dispute resolution work in many fields, including human rights and law enforcement, and has been a co-trainer at prior CMS Basic Mediation trainings. In 2004 he began to provide mediation and reconciliation services to Mennonite churches in the Pacific Northwest, and he has led numerous workshops and seminars in conflict resolution and communication.

For more information or to register for this training, please click here.