The Mediation for All Project is dedicated to the dissemination of the practice of dialogue in everyday life and as a means of seeking understanding in divergences and in the negotiation of differences.
In addition to lectures and seminars, it offers the social service of Mediation and Dialogue Facilitation for everyone who participates in these learning spaces.
The Productive Dialogue is the means used to implement self-composition methods, as well as to carry out negotiations and everyday decision-making (personal or functional) aimed at legitimacy and articulation of differences, consensus and mutual benefit.
Especially because contemporaneity honors diversity and speed in decision-making and is characterized by the speed of change and the shortening of the average life of ideas, dialogue was rescued as a primary instrument for negotiating differences and seeking consensus.
Dialogue skills – soft skills, are essential resources for this scenario, which will also rely on algorithms as performers of repetitive tasks, requiring socio-emotional skills from humans for what will be its main differential – interpersonal relationships.
In this year of 2021, MEDIARE is looking for two types of partnership to achieve the general and specific objectives of the Mediation for All Project: (i) the student body of all graduations from university environments, in order to positively interfere in this second academic stage of training of subjects; and (ii) entities that work with socioeconomic and cultural minorities or minorities characterized by vulnerability, in order to increase in these groups skills for productive dialogue.
Main goal
In this year of 2021, MEDIARE is looking for two types of partnership to achieve the general and specific objectives of the Mediation for All Project: (i) the student body of all graduations from university environments, in order to positively interfere in this second academic stage of training of subjects; and (ii) entities that work with socioeconomic and cultural minorities or minorities characterized by vulnerability, in order to increase in these groups skills for productive dialogue.
Specific objectives
- publicize the Institute of Mediation and Facilitation of Dialogues as resources for understanding and negotiating differences;
- contribute to the identification of dialogue as the best negotiation scenario for personal, functional and professional issues;
- expand skills for productive dialogue (one that gains effectiveness), sharing with the participants of the lectures/seminars some communication, negotiation, decision-making and conflict management tools.
Lectures (2h) and seminars (4h) will be the vehicle for the implementation of the Mediation for All Program, and will have its program suited to the participating public, with four basic thematic axes:
- conflicts are good opportunities to make changes;
- everyday issues can be resolved through dialogue, reserving their judicialization as a last resort;
- differences can be managed by seeking consensus and mutually beneficial solutions;
- decision-making and conflict management require dialogs or third-party facilitators with skills
The Mediation for All Project will be coordinated by Tania Almeida, who will act as a speaker and teacher in its initial editions. Its continuity will count with the participation of the Hours Bank of the MEDIARE Institute.
Curriculum of the responsible professor and Project Coordinator, Tania Almeida
Master in Conflict Mediation. Postgraduate in Neuropsychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Sociology and Business Management. Short Term Consultant of the Mediation Team Internal Just System of the World Bank (2010-2020). Accredited Mediator do Center for Effective Dispute Resolution - CEDAR and IMI International Mediation Institute and CPC International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Advanced Mediator at the Institute for Certification and Training of Lusophone Mediators – ICFML. Senior Mediator at TJ RJ – Lecturer, Consultant and Researcher in Conflict Mediation and Dialogue Facilitation. Founding partner of MEDIARE and coordinator of its Teaching Programs. Coordinator of the MEDIARE Supervised Practice Programs in the Agreements with TJ RJ, DP RJ and MP RJ. Mediation Director at CONIMA – National Council of Mediation and Arbitration Institutions, having participated in the Drafting Committee of the Code of Ethics and the Model Regulation for the practice of Mediation (1997). She was part of the Specialist Team of the Secretariat for Judiciary Reform to write the Brazilian Legal Framework for Mediation. Author of the book “Toolbox in Mediation – practical and theoretical contributions”. Co-organizer of the book “Conflict Mediation for Beginners, Practitioners and Teachers”. Author of articles published in national and foreign books, periodicals and websites.