Current & Upcoming Trainings
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FREE BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES
Custom Trainings For Businesses
Let us customize a training to meet your company’s needs in the areas of communication, collaboration, transforming conflict, leadership, and more.
Our trainings offer unique opportunities to local businesses to obtain world-class professional development courses from highly skilled trainers, on island, and in specialized subject areas.
Trainings are designed to: 1) introduce strategies for conflict management, 2) enhance interpersonal skills for workplace interactions, 2) increase emotional intelligence and self-management, and 3) promote collaborative skills and civil work environments. Investing in skills-building at the front end helps prevent and mitigate problems at the back end.

BASIC MEDIATION TRAINING
This 4-day training offers instruction in the process of mediation and how to apply advanced communication skills to help parties resolve differences. People in conflict often focus on each other as the problem, going head to head. Mediation helps people focus on the issues, so they can see they have a joint problem to solve.
Learn a variety of conflict resolution and prevention techniques in this interactive training—through lecture, group discussion, hands-on exercises, and mediation simulation practice. Whether you want to improve your communication skills or become a volunteer mediator at Ku‘ikahi, this training gives you the tools you need to start resolving conflict in peaceful, lasting ways. All backgrounds and personality types are welcome!
Our mediators are professionally trained volunteers who donate their time to assist people to find their own best solutions. Since we rely on this exceptional pool of volunteers, we continually seek out new apprentice mediators. Basic Mediation Training is a prerequisite.
This training is usually offered once annually in Hilo.
Our next Basic Mediation Training is on 2 Fridays & 2 Saturdays, February 23-24 & March 1-2, 2024 in-person in Hilo.
Basic Mediation Training
ADVANCED MEDIATION TRAINING
Mediators who successfully complete the Basic Mediation Training and Apprenticeship Program qualify for free continuing education opportunities. Specialized trainings are held periodically to develop skills required for certain types of cases, including domestic mediations (divorce, child custody, shared parenting time), employee and employer civil rights cases, and mediations for kupuna and their caregivers.