Master of Arts in Intercession Mediation (MAIM)                          

 

50010MCP Science of Negotiations
50020MCP A Study In Mediation Style
51010MCP Science in Relationships: Unanticipated Chicken-Rule of 52
51020MCP Multicultural Mediation and Counseling
51030MCP Practical Ombudsmanship
52010MCP Crisis Counseling
52020MCP Christ Centered Reality Therapy
60010M Marriage and Family Mediation
60020MC Religious Mediation
61010M Science of Arbitration
62010MC Human Learning and Communication
62020M Logic and Systematic Thinking
63010MCP Spiritual Studies and Mental Illness
64010M Professional Ethics

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Core Course Descriptions:

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• 50010MCP Science of Negotiation: Negotiation is at the heart of politics, religion, and life. From peace processes to budget reconciliation to international treaties on human rights, climate, and trade, high-stakes negotiations require actors to work through their differences. You, too, are engaged in negotiation any time you need others' cooperation to get what you want. How should people resolve their differences? In this course, students will learn about the theory and practice of negotiation and conflict resolution. Through active learning about the substance and process of negotiation, students will learn to craft creative solutions focused on interests, options, alternatives, relationships, communication, criteria, and commitment. We will tackle positional and principled negotiation, hard bargainers, cross-cultural negotiation, and multi-party negotiation. 

 

• 50020MCP A Study In Mediation Styles: This course builds upon the material from the book "Getting To Yes" covered in course 50010 MCP.  Mediation and dispute resolution are rapidly growing fields of study and sought-after skills in the workplace. This comprehensive course provides the core skill sets necessary for practicing mediation. Mediators are neutral parties who help people to resolve their disputes without going to court. Simply said, mediators help both businesses and families resolve conflict. People often use mediators when they wish to preserve relationships, save money, and save time. Students are guided through the 5 stages of mediation and asked how these stages apply to real-world mediation case studies. Students learn core people skills such as active listening, impartiality, neutrality, reframing, effective communication, and conflict management.

 

• 51010MCP Science in Relationships: Unanticipated Chicken-Rule of 52: A Study of the books The Unanticipated Chicken and Rule of 52 - These two books were written to prepare adult students for success. Success is always in a collision with conflicts. The most memorable and most quoted words of Jesus all come from conflicts. For example, the conflict with Nicodemus: “You must be born again.” As an example. In your future, your goal is to be successful in life, education, relationships, and work. This study will empower your mind to explore alternative solutions and develop a plan for success.  

 

• 51020MCP Multicultural Mediation and Counseling: In the current society and culture, there are enduring languages and traditions in the USA. This coursework is designed to help prepare you for the differences. Everything from a Catholic divorcing a Muslim to a business dissolving between a democrat and a republican. Cross-cultural mediation is a fundamental part of counseling, chaplaincy, ministry, and mediation. To think that everybody views conflict the same way is a great mistake; even well-educated, seasoned providers make it. This course is critical for your success.    

 

• 51030MCP Practical Ombudsmanship: The position of ombudsman comes from 1800s Sweden. With their king out of the country, the government of Sweden created the role of ombudsman to increase accountability and resolve difficult problems. More recently, the function of an ombuds is to assist individuals and groups in resolving conflicts or concerns. Their role is to serve as a neutral party, facilitating informal resolutions to their visitors' concerns. The word "ombudsman" is not gendered, with "man" meaning "human," but it has become commonly replaced with ombudsperson or ombuds. George Mason University has designated the position as University Ombudsperson, but Ombuds (pronounced "om-budz") is also acceptable. Ombuds listens with intention while remaining impartial to who is right or wrong. Ombuds - Serves as a strategic thought partner. Ombuds - Helps visitors develop options for resolving conflict or surfacing issues. Ombuds - Provides visitors with resources and information about Mason's policies and systems. Ombuds - Assists visitors with informal conflict resolution and problem-solving. Elevates systemic trends (patterns and anomalies) and concerns to the attention of the University's leadership without breaching confidence.

 

 

• 52010MCP Crisis Counseling: This course meets all the standards of the American BAR Association. Crisis intervention services are intensive, one-to-one, community-based services provided in response to a crisis to reduce or manage symptoms of serious mental illness or emotional disturbance and prevent more restrictive care. These services include assessing danger, coordinating emergency care, providing skills training, and offering emotional support. While the term "crisis counseling" is often used interchangeably, the state's definition specifically focuses on "crisis intervention services".  This course builds awareness to help you successfully provide services to your clients and protect you as a provider.

 

• 52020MCP Christ Centered Reality Therapy: Best practice and a core need meeting for all challenges in professional meeting communication and clients' requirements. A key counseling concept in CCRT is to strengthen the counseling relationship, even in the midst of counseling conflict, to challenge the client’s irresponsible behavior. Most counseling modalities' concept of treatment focuses on the problem and symptoms, which becomes the filter through which the client is viewed. This always leads to treating the problem (symptoms) and not the person. In the 21st century, many counselors are inclined to avoid the much-needed behavioral conflicts and redirection in the client’s treatment plans. In CCRT, treatment plans should challenge the client’s bad behavior objectively and overtly. Many counseling modalities avoid challenges, thus settling for a revolving door of problems for the client.

 

Mediation Degree

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• 60010M Marriage and Family Mediation: The skill will enable the student to provide meaningful discord and resolve conflicts between individuals in a relationship. This study examines the purpose and scope of mediator qualifications, lists, and certification procedures established by the judicial branch or other branches of state governments. The study focuses on lists and qualifications that are applicable statewide within each state (district-wide in the District of Columbia). Although many states recommend qualifications for mediators, no state has requirements for the practice of mediation. In any state, a mediator can practice in private settings without being licensed, certified, or listed. Rather than regulating the practice of mediation, states have chosen to create lists of mediators who meet criteria for certain areas of practice. Statewide lists of mediators are usually maintained by the judicial branch as an extension of its responsibility for settling civil disputes. Lists or certification procedures have two general purposes: 1) to establish qualifications for mediators who receive funding from state government or who receive referrals from the courts or other agencies; and 2) to provide information about mediator qualifications for parties, attorneys, courts, and members of the public as they exercise free market choice among private mediators.

 

• 60020MC Religious Mediation: This course will provide guidance with a Christ-centered approach. It also helps in providing a student a grounded perspective in order to service their client. Grievances within a faith tradition are often settled amicably or adjudicated by the religious community itself, without involvement from religious or secular courts. Indeed, many religious groups encourage members who are accused of (non-criminal) moral wrongdoing or involved in a financial dispute with another member of the religious group to engage in Mediation/Counseling to reach a voluntary agreement.  For many Christians, Mediation/Counseling is more than just a cost-efficient way to resolve disputes. Some cite biblical passages, such as St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, which urge believers to bring their grievances to fellow believers rather than to outside authorities. In addition, some Christians believe that Mediation/Counseling helps to promote reconciliation and forgiveness for everyone involved. Mediation/Counseling also has a place in other faith traditions. For instance, a saying (or hadith) of the Prophet Muhammad speaks of the risks judges take when they make wrong or unjust decisions.

 

• 61010M Science of Arbitration: This course is designed to guide the student through current and established Federal and Texas arbitration law, arbitration procedure and practice, arbitration clauses, powers and responsibilities of the arbitrator, and the roles of arbitrating parties. Other topics to be explored include the use of arbitration in subject-matter areas of the law, such as labor, business, consumer, and employment matters. 

 

• 62010MC Human Learning and Communication: This is not your high school speech or drama class - A human communication course introduces the fundamental concepts of how humans interact, covering topics like verbal and nonverbal communication, interpersonal and public speaking, and the influence of culture and identity. This course provides a foundational understanding of the field, often surveying specializations such as intercultural, organizational, and media studies, and aims to build practical skills for personal and professional life. Foundational principles: Define communication, explore its history, and examine different theoretical models. Contexts of communication: Analyze how communication varies across interpersonal, small-group, public, and organizational settings. Verbal and nonverbal: Study the differences between spoken messages and nonverbal cues like body language and tone. Cultural and identity: Investigate how culture, gender, and identity shape how we communicate and perceive others. Skills development: Improve active listening, conflict resolution, public speaking, and the ability to craft clear and persuasive messages. Media and technology: Understand the role of media and technology in communication today. 

 

• 62020M Logic and Systematic Thinking: Logic is the formal study of reasoning and valid arguments, while philosophy is a broader field that investigates fundamental questions about knowledge, existence, and values. Logic is a subset of philosophy, a tool used by philosophers to analyze and construct arguments across areas such as ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. According to Aristotle, Science or Scientia in Latin (knowledge='h episthmh‹hé epistémé‹) is distinguished into three domains: The theoretical, the practical, and the productive. The immediate objects of these three different kinds of sciences (= searches for knowledge) were considered knowledge (epistémé or episthmh). The ultimate goals for them differ. A primary study, and you must choose who you are and how you make your choices. The morality of an action is based on whether it adheres to a set of principles, regardless of the outcome. Teleology, also known as consequentialism, is an ethical theory that judges the morality of an action by its consequences; the ends are seen as justifying the means if the outcome is good. 

 

• 63010MCP Spiritual studies and Mental Illness: Psychological has completely discounted the supernatural and neutralized the concept of demons in the 21st century. The concept is almost taboo to consider the idea of a supernatural attack on individuals. It is not just science that rejects the powers of darkness. The church has disallowed the concept of inhuman demons invading an individual. On the other hand, the spiritual body of believers accepts the existence of miracles, angels, and God’s provision by way of prayer.  The book is a systematic understanding of the differences in mental health issues and demonic positions. An individual may have a mental illness of any description without being demon-possessed. It is not possible to be demon-possessed and not be mentally ill. For the clarity of understanding, there are types of mental illness. This is not a deliberation over whether Sation or the powers of darkness have influence, but how. If so, then what can be successfully done about the powers and principalities of darkness? There is no question or debate that mental illness exists, but there is a debate about how to deal with the problem.  

 

• 64010M Professional Ethics: The study is for: Attorneys, Chaplains, Counselors, Educators, Mediators, Ombudsmen, and Pastors.  As ethics is the philosophical treatment of the moral order, its history does not consist in narrating the views of morality entertained by different nations at different times; this is properly the scope of the history of civilization and of ethnology. The history of ethics is concerned solely with the various philosophical systems that, over time, have been elaborated with reference to the moral order. Moral Man/Ethical Man, Key Element, Multi-Cultural Ethics, Ethics—Mediation in History, Summary of Texas Laws, Family Violence and Sexual Assault, Legal Options for Victims of Family Violence, Model Standards of Practice for Family and Divorce Mediation Ethics, code of Ethics for Chaplains, Pastoral Counselors, Pastoral Educators and Student Absolutism, Absolute Relativism, and Relative Relativism, Christian Counselor and Pastoral Care Ethics, Morality Without God, Best Practice - Beneficence vs. Nonmaleficence.

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