Courses

Applied Alternative Dispute Resolution

This course presents conflict resolution skills, models and procedures in a practice-based approach. Alternative dispute resolution approaches include mediation, negotiation, and facilitation. Completion of course will meet the Kansas Office of Dispute Resolution's training requirements for approval in core mediation as outlined in the Dispute Resolution Act, K.S.A. 5-509 and Rule 911

August 25, 2025 to December 19, 2025

Core Skills and Strategies

In this course, you will learn communication theories and acquire interpersonal skills that are useful in understanding, analyzing, and managing conflict. The relational, emotional, and substantive aspects of conflict will be addressed, including the influences of gender, culture, power, and forgiveness at the interpersonal, group, community, and global levels. Through this practice-based approach, you will attain communication and conflict resolution skills, models, and procedures that are pragmatic as well as theoretical. Completion will meet the Kansas Office of Dispute Resolution's requirements for approval in core mediation: the Dispute Resolution Act, K.S.A. 5-501 and Rule 912.

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Culture and Conflict

This course is an exercise in critical thinking, cultural exploration, and self-reflection. It explores the cultural dimensions of conflict, including the role of culture in defining conflict for individuals and groups. The dynamics of interpersonal beliefs and socialization, cross cultural conflict theory and issues related to application are also examined. Kansas State University will award 45 continuing education hours for successful completion of course requirements to those participants who paid the optional fee.

October 20, 2025 to December 19, 2025

Family and Domestic Mediation

This microcredential equips learners with an understanding of divorce mediation, a practice that began in the early 1970s. Mediation allows couples to create their divorce settlements through a cooperative, confidential, and private process that prioritizes the current and future needs of parents and children. It recognizes divorce as a family issue rather than a legal one, empowering those involved to take responsibility for solving their problems. The course covers the multidimensional aspects of divorce, including the legal, emotional, personal values, and individual needs and interests. Unlike the adversarial legal approach, which views divorce as a contest focused solely on legal issues, mediation seeks to address the holistic needs of the family.Learners will explore the role of mediation in resolving family conflicts, with specific discussions on elder mediation, parent-adolescent mediation, and the option of conducting mediation online. This microcredential provides a comprehensive overview of mediation as a constructive alternative to traditional divorce proceedings. Kansas State University will award 45 continuing education hours for successful completion of course requirements to those participants who paid the optional fee.

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Foundations of Trauma and Traumatic Stress

This course will introduce and review the theoretical and historical beginnings of the concept of trauma, which includes the inclusion of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a diagnosis in the DSM III. It will highlight the other forms of recognized traumatic events and stressors that have more recently been brought to light. It will discuss various trauma reactions, effects of stressful events, as well as the treatment of trauma. Resilience and transcendence of trauma will be outlined, with an emphasis on the importance of self-care for clinicians and helping professionals working in this area.

August 25, 2025 to December 19, 2025

Organizational Conflict

This course provides an overview of the theories, methods, and practice issues involved in identifying and assessing sources of conflict. Students will learn about organizations, organizational development, causes and sources of conflict within organizations, dispute systems design, and how conflict resolution professionals work as interveners and agents of change. Kansas State University will award 45 continuing education hours for successful completion of course requirements to those participants who paid the optional fee.

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Storytelling and Peacebuilding

This course explores the theoretical and practical foundations of storytelling in relation to conflict resolution and peacebuilding. The intersection of theory and practice in storytelling approaches to trauma, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding will be explored in-depth. This course addresses the issues of power, identity, and meaning through the lens of storytelling. The course explores how storytelling can help individuals and groups build meaning and connection, across a range of cultural differences.

August 25, 2025 to December 19, 2025

Violence Prevention and Intervention

This course examines various theories of human aggression and violence, exploring their underlying assumptions about human nature and the causes of violence. Included is an introduction to a range of violence intervention and prevention approaches developed for use at the interpersonal, intergroup and societal level. Kansas State University will award 45 continuing education hours for successful completion of course requirements to those participants who paid the optional fee.

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