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June 2021

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Core's Residential Summer School

Using Mediation Skills as Leaders and Professionals


Sunday 29 August - Wednesday 1 September 2021

Register Now!
 
We will host our final mediation skills training course (CPD:  30+ hrs) residentially from Sunday 29 August (from 4pm) to Wednesday 1 September (no later than 5pm).  The venue wil be Carberry Tower Mansion House and Estate, just to the east of Edinburgh.

A three hour Orientation Workshop will take place online on one evening around ten days in advance which will serve as an introduction to the course.

The Summer School will be led by John Sturrock with support from Core's highly regarded team of coaches.  There will be a large amount of practical workshop activity throughout the course and participants will be encouraged to spend time in the evenings reading, reflecting, conversing, dining and planning for the following day.  Course materials will be provided via a dedicated website.

We have offered the first 10 available places at a special rate of £2175 plus VAT (normal fee:  £2475 plus VAT).  This rate includes use of all facilities, dinner, bed and breakfast for the duration of the Summer School.  We now have 2 of these spaces left and they are available on a first come, first served basis.  Registrations for this special fee will be payable by Friday 18 June.

 
If you would like to express an interest in attending the course then please contact Paula.Cumming@core-solutions.com or:
 
Register for the course here.


Recent course participants say:

"Although I was being pushed outside my comfort zone, I always felt completely supported by the coaches and other participants.  The learning atmosphere was enjoyable at all times." 

"Excellent facilitation, great colleagues, invaluable tools." 

"The mix of theory and practical was most useful as well as the challenge to our own assumptions and thinking."

"I've learned so much about myself and new approaches to working with colleagues and staff."

"The course was inspirational and I've used the techniques every day since. Quite incredible."



Love over Fear in Health Care


Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, 18 May 2021
 
John Sturrock gave the keynote address at the Humanising Healthcare Online Forum last month, for the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management:

"I have chosen the title Better Conversations, Better Outcomes: Love over Fear in Health Care for two reasons: firstly, I think it nicely summarises what humanising working in health care is all about; and secondly and more randomly perhaps, the last music gig I managed to get to before lockdown began in March 2020 was a concert by one of my favourite progressive rock bands, Pendragon, who played the whole of their then just released and magnificent new album entitled: Love over Fear. We rocked the night away in the Green Hotel in Kinross.

There is a song from that album entitled “Who Really Are We?” with the following lyrics: “So
don’t become one of the blamers, look deep within, and find love over fear”.

Let’s pause for a moment, just to reflect on those words. “So don’t become one of the blamers, look deep within, and find love over fear”. Now, I invite you to think about a situation you face at work, at home, or with other people in your life: what do these words mean to you: “don’t become one of the blamers”….“look deep within”…. “find love over
fear…”?

I’d like to see this occasion as an invitation to ask yourselves some questions; after all it was 
Tolstoy who said something to the effect that most of us are trying to change other people when the only person we can really change is ourselves. Gandhi and Mandela said much the same. And yet we ourselves are probably the most difficult person to change...


Read the full talk on Core's website here.



Blogs and Articles

 
Civil justice system must lead by example on climate change - John Sturrock, May 2021

"How can we design a civil justice system in Scotland fit for the future, not only post-Covid but addressing climate change and minimising environmental harm?  How can we deliver a Net Zero Carbon civil justice system?




We're all erisologists and humanomicists now! - Charlie Woods, June 2021

"As mediators we have a vital role to play in helping people describe and interpret the pictures they are seeing, both of their own positions and their relation to their underlying interests and those of those they are negotiating with."

Please feel free to forward this newsletter to colleagues who may be interested.
 

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