Have you ever thought about a career as a mediator? While getting started may seem daunting, especially in a field that is growing as fast as mediation. This course will not only alleviate some of that initial fear, it will provide a solid base of practical information you can use... [Click here to read more]
There is a specific art to mediating litigated cases where insurance adjusters are involved. This course systematically walks through the issues involved, the nuances at play and solutions for dealing successfully with counsel and insurance adjusters in each practice area. It also serves as an introduction to or review of the legalterms of art and specific settlement strategies that mediators must understand in order to... [Click Here to Read More]
This course is designed for professionals who want to learn the theory and skills necessary to formally practice mediation as an expansion of their present professional work. The course is also for those who desire to integrate mediative strategies, negotiation skills and problem-solving techniques into their current work... [Click Here to Read More]
This course is a practical training course. While covering theory to give you a framework and the intellectual understanding of negotiation and mediation, this course is about learning. Our focus is on your doing, practicing and experimenting with negotiating and mediating. There is much... [Click here to read more]
There is a science and a strategy to negotiation, whether a lawyer is negotiating deals, or settling complex litigation. Most attorneys spend a significant amount of their time negotiating, whether externally on behalf of clients or managing internal firm matters, but most have never been trained in the underlying fundamentals of the legal negotiation process. Many successful attorneys... [Click Here to Read More]
While all good attorneys prepare intensely for arbitration or trial, it is a wonder that more fail to prepare better for mediation. As the legal community continues to use mediation as an effective case settlement tool, it is becoming clear that attorney preparation plays a vital role in achieving a favorable result. Whether dealing with hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, shooting from the hip is too risky... [Click Here to Read More]
Using experience and lessons of his 30 years in private mediation practice and his best selling book, Mediation Career Guide, Woody Mosten will take you step by step from wanting a private practice to making it a stable financial business. You will develop your... [Click here to read more]
It is often said that the mediation profession suffers from a lack of mentoring. Mediators receive training, and while some training includes a clinical study segment, most do not include ongoing mentoring. Mediators who struggle to make ends meet in their practice, often wrestle with difficult issues such as marketing and business operations behind a mediation practice. The other missing element is having someone to ask questions about difficult mediation or difficult parties... [Click here to read more]
As mortgage foreclosures avalanche in every state, they provide immediate opportunity for mediators to add value. Mortgage foreclosure mediations are complicated and new laws are being passed, allowing in many cases the entire restructuring of the original mortgage. Mediators must learn... [Click Here to Read More]
You will learn how this style of mediation is different from mediating litigated cases, including how to conduct critical pre-work and diagnostic services, secrets of convening when it's purely voluntary, how to decide who should attend, structuring the process, creating the agenda, facilitating the communication, using a lot of joint session and interest-based negotiation... [Click here to read more]
As mediation’s use increases and markets and users become more sophisticated, competition increases and the lines of ethics can become blurry. Mediators in newer markets need to discuss and flesh out ethical issues and embed thoughtful decision-making. This highly interactive ethics program will deal with the ethics in one’s mediation style and the ethics inherent in... [Click Here to Read More]
From earthquakes to fires to landslides to floods, disasters are increasingly becoming part of the human experience. They are also creating an immediate and urgent demand for mediation to relieve pressure on the court system, and provide the victims with immediate financial assistance. Mediating disasters requires specific... [Click here to read more]
Some seminars are billed as advanced—this one is truly advanced. Every aspect of your practice will be examined, pulled apart, and put back together. What is your client intake strategy? How do you custom design each case to accelerate resolution? You will never use the word “impasse” again: Woody will provide you with... [Click Here to Read More]
The Beyond Yes™ method, originated at the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative, moves people from competence toward mastery by exploring the interplay between the best practices of negotiation and insights of the great wisdom traditions. In this program, we learn how to... [Click Here to Read More]
If a mediation is a group dynamic, then the mediator is the leader. This workshop is a practice environment for mediators, as well as others who head projects or teams, to work as organizational leaders and increase their capacity to lead. Exercises will build aptitude for... [Click Here to Read More]
Is a course designed explicitly for mediators who have achieved a level of success and a respect for other mediation styles and applications, and who are prepared to move beyond the confines of evaluative and facilitative processes of mediation and make a difference with their work – both in the lives of participants in their mediations, and in themselves. This course is for those who are ready to move to the next level of awareness... [Click Here to Read More]
The words ‘mediating’ and ‘dangerously’ don’t often appear together. Mediation is usually thought of as an ameliorator of danger, a pacifier of hazardous feelings, a safe space. Dangerous mediation means approaching conflicts with deep honesty and empathy, eliminating demonization and victimization, dropping masks and poses, and exploring conflicts within ourselves. It means triggering controlled “chain reactions” that allow conflicts to explode safely. It means testing the limits by... [Click Here to Read More]
Every workplace generates chronic conflicts, yet few organizations have examined their "conflict culture" to see how conflicts are generated, supported and reinforced. Fewer still have conducted "conflict audits" to discover where these streams of conflict come from, or designed multi-layered complex systems to improve their capacity for conflict prevention, management, settlement... [Click Here to Read More]
This course is a practical training course. This high energy, seriously practical, advanced workshop will engage you – first in identifying the most common specific causes of impasse, and then in delivering tools that will help you to resolve more cases by avoiding these common traps. Together, we will explore tools to rethink how you do every stage of the process, beginning with convening a case and the mediator’s introduction, right through how you can manage joint sessions and caucuses more effectively, and then finally how to close the deal more successfully.[Click here to read more]
