Accord Canada offers a professional development program in association with Michelle LeBaron. Our program is designed to build the negotiation, facilitation, mediation, and process design capacity necessary to support interest-based approaches to public policy decision-making and dispute resolution.

All of our courses are structured to help participants build on their existing knowledge and experience as they learn new approaches to resolving complex disputes. The emphasis is on acquiring new skills through simulations, case studies, demonstrations and other experiential learning tools. Each course can be tailored or integrated with others to meet particular needs. 

Reaching Agreement

In this introductory course, participants become familiar with conflict and negotiation theory and add to their skills and capacities as negotiators. Course experiences include practice in bridging cultural and value differences in public policy settings and exercises designed to develop new skills in communication and creative problem solving. Participants also learn how to structure an interest negotiation process.

This is a 'life-skill' course for public managers and agency staff seeking to resolve policy and administrative disputes fairly and efficiently.

Reaching Agreement is offered in a two- or three-day course format. The longer course provides more opportunities to practice interest negotiation.

Please note this course is currently only offered on a customized basis, tailored to the needs of the client group or organization (usually 16-24 participants). For more information, please contact us.