Building Bridges Mediation & Training
Building Bridges Mediation & Training provides mediation, workshops and coaching for the workplace, families, service providers, communities, organizations and more. We strengthen relationships & teams and empower their members with increased awareness, knowledge and practical tools.
Workshops & Coaching
We believe that training should be engaging (fun, even!), educational (useful) and lead to specific skills and tools that participants start using immediately (practical). Workshops include interactive education, small & large group discussions, case/situation problem solving, individual & small group activities, and skills practice.
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Training ranges from one-to-one coaching to education and skill-building workshops to large group presentations.
Mediation
Conflict can become destructive. And the thought of sitting down to talk about it can feel stressful or even frightening to those involved.
At times, it is wise to have a mediator facilitate difficult conversations – someone who is not involved and who can ensure that the conversation is productive, safe, and leads to a positive (re)solution.
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Online Learning & Resources
Short educational modules, skills explanations with examples, tweet style-ideas, and more. Topics include:
- Effective communication
- Win-win problem solving
- Navigating difficult conversations
- Requesting change
- Positive parenting
- Increasing our/others’ self-esteem
- And many others…
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Very important information. I appreciate Keiron’s ability to have the participants feel heard — he’s a very compassionate speaker and very inspiring of the same qualities.
Keiron Simons
MEDIATOR & TRAINER
With a background as a counsellor and a lawyer, Keiron Simons has worked as a mediator, trainer and coach for over thirty years. His clients range from corporations and nongovernmental organizations/ institutions to provincial and municipal governments, Indigenous communities, families and individuals. In addition, Keiron serves as the Conflict Resolution and Harassment Advisor for Capilano University and as the contract mediator and a coach for Family Services of Greater Vancouver Employee Assistance Program, serving clients throughout British Columbia and the Yukon.