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TRAINING AND SEMINARS
WHY LEARN HOW TO MEDIATE
Resolving conflicts constructively to manage the stress of a business dispute, workplace, health care or organizational or family-divorce conflict takes special skills and talents. There are usually economic, legal and interpersonal considerations that must be addressed, whatever the origin or context of the dispute. Roles, rights, responsibilities and relationships need to be realigned and the personal financial, and legal issues must be resolved so that the parties can move beyond the conflict and resume their primary responsibilities.
Most professionals who work with family, business, or other conflicts have recognized the need to have a safe, thoughtful, sensible and efficient process to settle disputes. Mediation is being used with increasing frequency to resolve those conflicts. Mediation offers an effective means for parties to maintain control of the restructuring of their personal and business relationships. The mediator, skilled in effective negotiation and problem-solving strategies, facilitates the planning process. As a result, mediation can often reduce the unnecessary delay and expense that often occurs in the traditional legal system, and minimize the unnecessary stress and animosity that comes about in most family and business conflicts.
The role of the mediator, however, while it draws on one's expertise and experience, is different and apart from that of a lawyer, counselor, or businessperson. The mediator, in effect, must be able to effectively negotiate his or her authority with the parties and facilitate the negotiation between disputing parties. This requires special skills, strategies and techniques, and an understanding of the potential professional role conflicts and ethical issues that may arise in serving as a mediator.
The training programs presented below all directly address the unique role and responsibilities of a mediator in different substantive contexts. While the theory and skills, strategies and techniques are substantially the same, there are differences in the mediator's style, approach, and structuring of the process in each conflict context. For those dedicated to the practice of mediation, being competent in all contexts of practice allows one to be more effective in the management of any particular conflict.
Courses can be designed for virtually any context in which a conflict may arise. (See "Custom-Designed Courses" below.) Below, however, are courses that are regularly presented in common conflict contexts.
Courses
June 21-23, 2007, Malibu, CA, Advanced Training with Peter Adler, Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute, Professional Development Series, : "The Protean Mediator as Leader: Advanced Problem Solving Theory and Design," contact Lori Rushford, 310 506 6342; lori.rushford@pepperdine.edu
June 18-29, 2007, Malibu, CA, Mediation, Pepperdine Univ, Seaver College
July 20-22 and 27-29, 2007*(2 wknds), Plano (Dallas), TX, Mediation (40 hr trng), Southern Methodist University, Dispute Resolution Program. Contact: Kay Barclay, tel: 972-473-3435; email: kbarclay@smu.edu registration available for non-credit participants, $1200
Aug 3-5 and 10-12, 2007 (2wknds), St. Louis, MO, Divorce/Family Mediation (40 hr trng), Washington University, GWB School of Social Work. Contact: R. Benjamin, registration available for non-credit participants, $1250
Aug 28-Sept 1, 2007, Portland, OR, Family and Divorce Mediation (40 hr) $1250. Contact and register through R. Benjamin
Oct 9-12, 2007, Portland, OR, Business, Workplace Mediation (32 hr)$1050. Contact and register through R. Benjamin
Nov 15-18 and 29-Dec 1, 2007 (2 wknds), Orange Co. (Los Angeles) CA, Advanced Mediation, Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, contact: The Straus Inst. 310 506 4655
Workplace And Organizational Disputes
Register for upcoming 2007 trainings
Family & Divorce Mediation
Presentations and Advanced Trainings
Sept 21, 2007, Carson City, NV, Nevada Dispute Resolution Commission, 1 day Advanced Training "The Activist Mediator"
Sept 24-28, 2007, Vienna, Austria, European Mediation Conference, Presentation
Oct 24-26, 2007, Phoenix, AZ, Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), Presentations: "The Beauty of Conflict," and/or "The Guerrilla Mediator and the Protean Negotiator: Lessons from Neuro-biology and Evolutionary Psychology."
Nov 8, 2007, London, U.K., CEDR (Center for Effective Dispute Resolution) Conference, Presentation: "The Beauty of Conflict"
Nov 21-23, 2008, Sligo, Ireland, Mediators Institute of Ireland, National Conference,
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