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January 2022
Co-Parent Counseling: Helping Parents Help their Children through Divorce
Dates and Times January 21 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific • 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Eastern January 22 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific • 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Eastern January 23 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Pacific • 12:00 PM - 7:30 PM Eastern January 22 and 23 will include a 45 minute mid-day break and each day will include stretch/movement breaks for our bodies’ sake while on Zoom. Would you like to combine your…
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Top Tips for Starting an ADR Practice
Date February 15, 2022 Time 12 PM PST • 3 PM EST • 9 PM CET Cost $47 All webinars are free for CUC Connect members. Click here to learn more. You've taken mediation and conflict resolution trainings and have begun developing the skills you need to serve clients in conflict, but how do you make that your day job? In this webinar, Catherine Conner and Melanie Rowen will discuss concrete tips for starting your own practice that includes or is…
Find out more »March 2022
Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (West Coast)
March 2-6, 2022 Participants are required to have completed their COVID-19 vaccinations at least two weeks prior to the start of this program or provide proof of a negative test within 24 hours prior to the start of training. To register, scroll to the bottom of this page. Are you responsible for helping people work through conflict? Do you manage important conversations between clients, employees, team members, volunteers or other people? Do you want to improve your ability to facilitate…
Find out more »Virtual Mediation Revisited: What have we learned over the last two years of doing mediation online?
Date March 17, 2022 Time 12 PM PDT • 3 PM EDT • 8 PM CET Cost $47 All webinars are free for CUC Connect members. Click here to learn more. With so much of our work involving non-verbal cues and how it feels to be "in the room" with our clients, the pandemic fundamentally changed how we work with conflict. In this webinar, we'll explore the challenges and opportunities presented by holding difficult conversations online and examine how mediation and…
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Power: Understanding or Coercion?
Date April 12, 2022 Time 10 AM PDT • 1 PM EDT • 7 PM CEST Cost $47 All webinars are free for CUC Connect members. Click here to learn more. Central to our approach to conflict is to maximize the potential of the power of understanding in the three dimension of self, other and external realities. Understanding is a quite different and challenging alternative to the power of coercion. These dimensions have a potential power to transform and help guide…
Find out more »Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (East Coast)
April 27 - May 1, 2022 With the continuing uncertainties from COVID-19 variants, if we cannot offer this training in-person, we will transition to a virtual program and refund accommodation fees. Any participants who would not want to attend a virtual training will receive a full refund. Participants are required to have completed their COVID-19 vaccinations at least two weeks prior to the start of this program or provide proof of a negative test within 24 hours prior to the…
Find out more »Your Next Steps: Launching Your Understanding-Based ADR Work
You have taken a conflict resolution training and want to add consensual dispute resolution to your existing practice or start a new practice— what next? Our three-part series will help you explore your motivations, professional goals, opportunities and challenges. This will be an interactive process with exercises and briefings on practical aspects of starting and/or incorporating ADR into a practice or your work and bringing people in the door. You will leave with a concrete action plan to develop the…
Find out more »May 2022
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Date May 10, 2022 Time 12 PM PDT • 3 PM EDT • 9 PM CEST Cost $47 All webinars are free for CUC Connect members. Click here to learn more. Everybody lies (and gets lied to), every day. As mediators, journalists, lawyers and negotiators, we encounter more lies than most. In conflict, there are countless incentives to exaggerate, embellish, omit and deceive. So what do we do? How do we know if someone is lying? And how do we deal…
Find out more »November 2022
Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (West Coast)
November 2-6, 2022 The venue requires that participants have completed their COVID-19 vaccinations at least two weeks prior to the start of this program. To register, scroll to the bottom of this page. Are you responsible for helping people work through conflict? Do you manage important conversations between clients, employees, team members, volunteers or other people? Do you want to improve your ability to facilitate conversations of consequence? Do you want to learn to mediate or enhance your conflict resolution…
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