As a charity the work of Mediation Northern Ireland goes beyond our core activities of dispute resolution and training services. We run programmes and events that contribute to the broader peace building field in Northern Ireland and beyond.
Below you can find our more about our current range of programmes and events on offer, other services we provide (such as room hire) and some of the past programmes that the organisation has been involved in.
Walking Each Other Home is an open access mindfulness programme. It runs on the first and third Thursday of each month and each session lasts for 1.5 hrs.
The format for each session is 15 minutes of quiet settling and grounding, 45 minutes of guided practice, up to 30 minutes of sharing or quiet reflection (as preferred).
The focus of this mindfulness programme is ‘loved lived’ and it will be led by a team of four mindfulness practitioners.
For more information please download the flyer attached or contact us.
Calling the Storms To Stillness is a yearlong programme exploring forgiveness of self and others.
It is a combination of training, retreats and reflection sessions that raise awareness about attachment and aversion and cultivates practical skills to respond. Our sense of having wronged another ourselves or another generates strong feelings that can be overwhelming. The habitual experience of these feelings can create conditioning in our lives. Calling the storms to stillness explores these habits and conditions and offers alternatives.
As part of Mediation Northern Ireland’s commitment to peace and nonviolence we have renewed our monitoring work across NI. MNI Monitors attend events including parades, protests and celebrations to observe both the context and the detail of the event.
MNI Monitors are both invited and requested to attend events. Monitors are clearly visible when in attendance, wearing high visibility vests with the MNI logo and carrying their MNI Monitor’s licence.
The reports created by MNI Monitors are available to the public and to voluntary and statutory agencies on request.
To make a requests for monitors, or if you have any queries about our monitoring work, please contact us.
Mediation Northern Ireland offers low cost room hire in South Belfast. Our rooms are suitable for training, meetings, interviews, and assessment centres. Our rooms available are:
The Wheatley Room
With mostly soft seating, this comfortable room provides the perfect space for your group’s event when comfort and setting are the key ingredients. This room benefits from natural light, a fixed whiteboard and several power points.
The Hokusai Room
This multi-purpose space can host a range of events. With tables in place, it represents the typical Board room providing a comfortable meeting space. With tables removed the room works well as a more informal meeting space, or training room. This room benefits from natural light, a fixed whiteboard and several power points.
For more information, room photos, prices and a booking form, please download our brochure.
At a workshop on “Mediation Skills in Conflict” in 1985 a small group of peace activists saw the potential for mediation in the Northern Ireland situation. By 1987 they had launched the Northern Ireland Conflict and Mediation Association (NICMA), with the aim of promoting the use of mediation through training. The organisation was constituted and charitable status sought in 1991.
Throughout the years, the organisation continued its work in various sectors and at many levels in our society (an approach now known as ‘systemic’). One of the significant achievements of Mediation Northern Ireland’s work has been to maintain relevance and credibility in many sectors (community, business, statutory, public and political). Furthermore, it has demonstrated the possibility of being an independent, impartial indigenous organisation in a historically divided and conflicted society.
As the end to violence approached and arrived, the organisation used mediation approaches to provide key strategic leaders the space to creatively consider the challenges they faced. The more structured, and long-term, of these processes were Good Relations Forums.
Since the turn of the century the cumulative learning from this work was used in the North West of England to develop new practice on cohesion issues helping local practitioners working on contention and dysfunction in local relations, including Guns & Gangs specific issues.
This approach to local relations was subsequently used in Northern Ireland through our Social Partnership Programme, a 6 year programme to develop capacity to deal with contentious issues locally through improved partnership between community, statutory and public bodies, and a local mediation resource.
Our MOST programme worked for 3 years on three distinct and interlinking strands. Firstly Transnational Good Practice Exchanges for practitioners in Northern Ireland and Europe. Secondly Action Learning and Networking. Thirdly Informing Good practice.
More recently, our Roma Romanian Community Development and AMAL programmes have worked with newly arrived people in Belfast to increase a sense of belonging, make local connections and increase capacity within these communities to integrate fully into Northern Irish life.
If you would like to find out more about our history and past programmes of work, please contact us.
Walking Each Other Home is an open access mindfulness programme. It runs on the first and third Thursday of each month and each session lasts for 1.5 hrs.
The format for each session is 15 minutes of quiet settling and grounding, 45 minutes of guided practice, up to 30 minutes of sharing or quiet reflection (as preferred).
The focus of this mindfulness programme is ‘loved lived’ and it will be led by a team of four mindfulness practitioners.
For more information please download the flyer attached or contact us.
Calling the Storms To Stillness is a yearlong programme exploring forgiveness of self and others.
It is a combination of training, retreats and reflection sessions that raise awareness about attachment and aversion and cultivates practical skills to respond. Our sense of having wronged another ourselves or another generates strong feelings that can be overwhelming. The habitual experience of these feelings can create conditioning in our lives. Calling the storms to stillness explores these habits and conditions and offers alternatives.
As part of Mediation Northern Ireland’s commitment to peace and nonviolence we have renewed our monitoring work across NI. MNI Monitors attend events including parades, protests and celebrations to observe both the context and the detail of the event.
MNI Monitors are both invited and requested to attend events. Monitors are clearly visible when in attendance, wearing high visibility vests with the MNI logo and carrying their MNI Monitor’s licence.
The reports created by MNI Monitors are available to the public and to voluntary and statutory agencies on request.
To make a requests for monitors, or if you have any queries about our monitoring work, please contact us.
Mediation Northern Ireland offers low cost room hire in South Belfast. Our rooms are suitable for training, meetings, interviews, and assessment centres. Our rooms available are:
The Wheatley Room
With mostly soft seating, this comfortable room provides the perfect space for your group’s event when comfort and setting are the key ingredients. This room benefits from natural light, a fixed whiteboard and several power points.
The Hokusai Room
This multi-purpose space can host a range of events. With tables in place, it represents the typical Board room providing a comfortable meeting space. With tables removed the room works well as a more informal meeting space, or training room. This room benefits from natural light, a fixed whiteboard and several power points.
For more information, room photos, prices and a booking form, please download our brochure.
At a workshop on “Mediation Skills in Conflict” in 1985 a small group of peace activists saw the potential for mediation in the Northern Ireland situation. By 1987 they had launched the Northern Ireland Conflict and Mediation Association (NICMA), with the aim of promoting the use of mediation through training. The organisation was constituted and charitable status sought in 1991.
Throughout the years, the organisation continued its work in various sectors and at many levels in our society (an approach now known as ‘systemic’). One of the significant achievements of Mediation Northern Ireland’s work has been to maintain relevance and credibility in many sectors (community, business, statutory, public and political). Furthermore, it has demonstrated the possibility of being an independent, impartial indigenous organisation in a historically divided and conflicted society.
As the end to violence approached and arrived, the organisation used mediation approaches to provide key strategic leaders the space to creatively consider the challenges they faced. The more structured, and long-term, of these processes were Good Relations Forums.
Since the turn of the century the cumulative learning from this work was used in the North West of England to develop new practice on cohesion issues helping local practitioners working on contention and dysfunction in local relations, including Guns & Gangs specific issues.
This approach to local relations was subsequently used in Northern Ireland through our Social Partnership Programme, a 6 year programme to develop capacity to deal with contentious issues locally through improved partnership between community, statutory and public bodies, and a local mediation resource.
Our MOST programme worked for 3 years on three distinct and interlinking strands. Firstly Transnational Good Practice Exchanges for practitioners in Northern Ireland and Europe. Secondly Action Learning and Networking. Thirdly Informing Good practice.
More recently, our Roma Romanian Community Development and AMAL programmes have worked with newly arrived people in Belfast to increase a sense of belonging, make local connections and increase capacity within these communities to integrate fully into Northern Irish life.
If you would like to find out more about our history and past programmes of work, please contact us.
About Mediation NI : Our aim is to support parties dealing with change, contention, conflict and difference to find acceptable and nonviolent agreement. We work with individuals, communities and organisations in the public, private and third sector to support them to deal with difference and to find nonviolent resolutions to disputes. Our services are based in Belfast but we work across Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain and internationally.
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