MYL offers training programs in professional development and personal growth through Mediation and Conflict Coaching trainings and MYL Journey courses. The professional development program offers a certification path.
Trainings run from weeks to year-long, with different pathways to deepen your professional and personal development, experience growth and healing through inner and outer reconciliation, learn skills that integrate science-based methods and spiritual practice, and be part of a global community.
CORE ELEMENTS OF MYL TRAINING
- Empathic language components and relational attunement abilities
- A mediation framework from the field of conflict resolution
- Levels of mindful awareness, presence, resonance in practical mediation and coaching skills
- Integration of collective/cultural/systemic and ancestral/generational aspects of conflict resolution and reconciliation of hurt and divides
- Trauma-informed processes
Ways to Train with Mediate Your Life
Upcoming Trainings
FREE EVENT WITH an MYL Certified Trainer
What if a different approach to holiday conflict could open the door to greater understanding and new possibilities? Follow an unfolding family holiday story through this three-session series, with opportunities for reflection, discussion, and Q&A. Explore fresh perspectives you might bring to conflicts in your own life.
A Taste of Mediate Your Life for the Holidays: Starts November 23
TRAIN WITH an MYL Certified Trainer
This 4-week introduction course is designed specifically for those wanting to pursue MYL training and who have little or no previous experience with the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) components and principles.
Foundations of Mediate Your Life: Starts December 2nd
TRAIN WITH an MYL Certified Trainer
These courses give you the ability to guide yourself with grace to the other side of challenging interpersonal situations. You gain the skills, structure, and maps to move through conflict in your personal, work, and community life to experience greater wellbeing and new possibilities.
Level 1 Transforming Conflict Internally: Starts January 19
TRAIN WITH John Kinyon
This year-long program consists of a 24-week Mediate Your Life Coaching Training and a 24-week Mediation Training. It will give you the ability to be a guide for others through the challenges we face, with the MYL 3Chair model, maps, and skills that lead to resolution and solutions based in mutual understanding and agreements, as well as healing and transformation along the way. The program includes the option to become Mediate Your Life Certified.
Mediate Your Life Mediation Training: Starts January 14
What People Say
John Kinyon is one of our trainers of Nonviolent Communication and someone in whom I have a great deal of trust and confidence. John, in my experience has a special gift for facilitating empathic understanding and communication between people. I highly endorse John's skills and abilities with Nonviolent Communication, and I strongly recommend him to anyone needing help resolving a conflict situation.
— Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder of Nonviolent Communication
Personally, I wouldn’t be who I am without John’s work. As I travel a road of healing the trauma of my life, his techniques and mediation skills helped me to understand ways to self-connect with more kindness and compassionate awareness.
— Hope Obrien
I highly recommend John Kinyon. In my session with him I had a wonderful healing and gained great relief. John gave me unconditional kindness and empathy. I gained compassion for my former spouse and the pain she suffered since childhood. I also gained compassion for myself, and I was able to become aware of my triggers and my part in the problems in our relationship. After the session, I felt like there had been chains holding me down, and now they were cut and I was free. That shift inside me led me to email my former spouse. She responded to me and we connected for the first time in 45 years! We had some resolution of our issues around our divorce many years ago. That resolution has affected our children and has brought relief and peace to the whole family.
— Charles P
John introduced the 3-chairs concept for difficult conversations to our team for 3 hours during a 2-day offsite. The general consensus of the team was that John had established a process and a mindset that enabled the team to experience a breakthrough. One of my peers said the workshop had been perfect and that we as a team had never made so much progress during this type of meeting before. We ended the offsite feeling that everything we had wanted to accomplish was accomplished. One of the things I enjoyed most was my manager's summation of his experience with John: 'The guy is incredibly centered! When he first started talking my reaction was, What the hell is he talking about? And then an hour later I was like, Oh my god, he has changed my life!'
— Paul Johnson, Microsoft Senior Marketing Excellence Manager
Working with John on improving our team’s approach to conflict is one of the best decisions I’ve made as a leader since founding the company five years ago. John’s method gave us a simple, shared vocabulary and a process we could trust, even when we’ve been scared to dive into difficult conversations. I can see the difference in how we relate to each other and how we perform more effectively. Now that we have a way to clear those issues before they deepen and calcify, we are much more productive. I feel confident in saying that if Flip Labs fulfills its vision to grow and make real change in the world by solving social and environmental problems, our work with John will be a key reason we were able to do so.
— Cheryl Dahle, Founder of Flip Labs