Teacher Training
Building Peace from Within: The High-Conflict Toolkit
A conflict resolution course for teachers, counselors, administrators and anyone who helps young people handle conflict, certified by Teen Mediation International.
The course works from the inside out: start with how you respond to conflict yourself, practice a mediator's words and classroom tools, then teach your students to be peacemakers.
Five live Zoom evening sessions, plus short self-paced lessons and one classroom practice lesson.
A 15-hour professional development certificate from Teen Mediation International.
A ready-to-teach classroom kit and a plan to start peer mediation at your school.
First cohort: January 2027.
Course Instructors
Kathie A. CalkinsKeyes, MAEd
Course coordinator. Co-founder and Executive Director of Teen Mediation International and Administrator of the American Academy of ADR Attorneys, where she runs its 40-hour CLE Mediation Masterclass. A former Mandarin Chinese teacher with a master's in education from Washington University in St. Louis, Kathie has trained students and coordinated mediation tournaments with students and volunteers from more than 26 countries.
Dr. Grace Chami Sather, EdD
Educator and counselor with an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction, who has taught for 25 years in Lebanon, Oman, Greece, Canada, the United States and the United Arab Emirates. A TMI Founding Coach, Grace has spent ten years guiding students and professionals through career identity and communication challenges, and she teaches neuro-linguistic programming and self-regulation in conflict.
Kathleen Ruane Leedy, MEd
Mediator, educator and international mediation trainer with more than forty years of service, including twenty-two years teaching high school. Since 2008, Kathleen has mediated more than 1,000 civil, family, workplace and high-conflict cases. She was the founding president of Teen Mediation International and created the C.A.M. Mediator Speak Toolbox.
Lucy McCollum, JD
Certified mediator, life coach and speaker, and founder of LucyBoldness. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Lucy serves on TMI's Board of Advisors, leads TMI's bystander intervention trainings for teens, and created "Embers Not Explosions," a program that helps adults turn conflict into clarity.