Training & Consulting
Services
Training
The purpose of a Religious Ethical Mediation™ training program is to nurture leaders whose worldview and practices are transformative of intolerance, conflict, and violence as manifested within educational institutions, communities of faith, and business environments.
REM Training Curriculum and Program
Teaches how conflicts can become opportunities for creative moral life rather than act as barriers to community, communication, and collaboration
Nurtures transformative mediation as a conscious and ethical way of being in the world
Teaches skills and practices for transforming conflict
Participants receive 20 hours of training on the theories and skills as well as practice in designing and facilitating individual and group conflict situations.
Certificate of Completion
Still Waters, the REM training non-profit founded by Dr. Marcia Riggs in 2001, provides participants a certificate of completion enabling students to serve as a Religious Ethical Mediator.
Training for Trainers
Additional courses are offered to those persons who want to become a trainer of trainers.
Consulting
Dr. Marcia Riggs offers individuals, groups, and organizations opportunities to learn and apply the ethical principles of Religious Ethical Mediation to their specific struggles. Using her many years of experience, Dr. Riggs assists the process of communicating, envisioning, and practicing living out shared values.
Conflict Coaching – For individuals who want to learn techniques to use when in conflict situations
Facilitated Conversations – For individuals or groups struggling to connect because of conflict.
Transformative Mediation – For individuals and groups experiencing full-blown conflict that wish to repair trust and establish a mutual agreement as to how to move forward
Organizational Ombuds Services – For organizations when trust has broken down, and members experience dissonance between formal and informal aspects of the organization's culture
Workshops – For groups interested in improving their organization’s communication and practices around conflict
Mediation services can be customized in length and content to meet the unique needs of your situation and setting.
In-Person, Online, and Custom Options
Training: Training is taught best as a three-day weekend training workshop in person or online. Training can also be designed (e.g., length of time and format) in consultation with clients and their specific needs.
Consulting and Workshops: Online or Face-to-Face; customized for your needs.
“Effective mediation serves as a means for intervention when circumstances arise between two parties that have reached a stalemate in exchanging ideas. Marcia Riggs has developed effective negotiation methods that lead the effected parties to open communications and offer a way for them to interact at a level of mutual understanding and respect.”
— Helen R. Allen
Chief Human Resources Officer United Methodist Communications, Nashville, TN