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February 2019
2019 Advanced Series (West Coast)
Our 2019 Advanced Series provides a combination of trainings to meet your conflict engagement professional needs.
Find out more »July 2019
Advanced Looping: Listening to Understand (West Coast)
In this half day workshop, you will learn techniques for communicating more effectively with parties in conflict by uncovering what is really important for them and what is motivating them.
Find out more »Going Down the Why Trail (Webinar)
Parties in a conflict are often focused on their positions – what they think should be the solution. Our hope is that by understanding what is beneath their positions, we will be able to help them reach an agreement. In this webinar, Katherine Miller and Gary Friedman will discuss how to work with parties to discover and surface what is important to each of them – why they are taking their positions.
Find out more »Advanced Looping — East Coast
Full day training on the advanced listening and communication technique that we call "Looping".
Find out more »August 2019
When Lawyers Are in the Room (Webinar)
When parties in a legal dispute decide to use an alternative dispute resolution process, the question of role of the law and lawyers arises. The lawyers may be in the background as consulting lawyers or may be active participants. In this webinar, Gary Friedman and Catherine Conner will discuss what happens when the lawyers are active participants and present at meetings. Topics include reaching agreements about the role of the lawyers and how the law is presented.
Find out more »Mentoring Meeting: Case Review, Coaching and Practice Support (Online)
We will discuss challenges in your cases and practices. We will include tools and concepts from our basic and advanced trainings as well as from our SCPI program.
Find out more »September 2019
Mentoring Meeting: Case Review, Coaching and Practice Support (West Coast)
We will discuss challenges in your cases and practices. We will include tools and concepts from our basic and advanced trainings as well as from our SCPI program.
Find out more »Inside Out Advanced Training in Heidelberg
This will be a two day intensive program on September 13-14, 2019 in self-reflection in action and its relevance to working as a professional to help people in conflict. The focus of the program will be to train participants in ways of accessing their inner lives while working with clients in conflict that are constructive for the professionals and productive for our clients. We will learn together about connecting with our deeper impulses that fuel our commitment to working…
Find out more »CUC Connect Premium and VIP Members Only Open Forum (Webinar)
This CUC Connect Premium and VIP Member Only webinar session is the opportunity for CUC Connect Premium and VIP members to ask questions, share quandaries and get personal support from CUC instructors. Free for CUC Connect Premium and VIP Members.
Find out more »October 2019
Narcissism and Altruism (Self Reflection for Conflict Professionals – SCPI) (West Coast)
How can we work with both our preoccupation with ourselves and our goal of helping others? We will look at managing the tension between paying sufficient attention to ourselves to recognize how we might be helping or getting in the way and our efforts to be fully there for others.
Find out more »Preparing Parties for Mediation (Webinar)
Many mediation parties have never been in mediation and are anxious about what to expect. Others may have attended a mediation that is quite different from your approach. In this webinar, Catherine Conner and Katherine Miller will discuss best practices for mediators and lawyers to prepare parties for mediation.
Find out more »November 2019
When You Are Stuck (West Coast)
In this one day training, we will explore how to avoid getting so stuck it feels unmovable and what to do if you get there.
Find out more »Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (West Coast)
Learn how to support parties working through conflict or engaging in other important conversations in a different way. Our 40 hour basic training in the Understanding-Based model teaches you how guide parties to make knowing and informed choices together in a respectful manner.
Find out more »Risky Moves: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do (Webinar)
Tension is high in the room, emotions are flaring, and you feel desperate. You have tried your usual approach and tools but nothing has shifted. In this webinar, Gary Friedman and Katherine Miller will discuss what you can do when you are stuck.
Find out more »Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (East Coast)
Learn how to support parties working through conflict or engaging in other important conversations in a different way. Our 40 hour basic training in the Understanding-Based model teaches you how guide parties to make knowing and informed choices together in a respectful manner.
Find out more »December 2019
CUC Connect Premium and VIP Members Only Open Forum
This CUC Connect Premium and VIP Member Only webinar session is the opportunity for CUC Connect Premium and VIP members to ask questions, share quandaries and get personal support from CUC instructors. Free for CUC Connect Premium and VIP Members.
Find out more »February 2020
Self Reflection in Action: Using Our Inner Selves to Help People in Conflict (SCPI)
Powerful emotional currents flow through us as professionals who work with conflict. We size up our clients and carry judgments, frustrations and gut feelings about them in our bodies. The frustration, exasperation, anger and other difficult emotions that are part of daily life in this field hold the key to a deeper connection to the parties who come to us. And with connections come new more satisfying possibilities for resolving their conflicts. In this Self Reflection for Conflict Professionals Intensive…
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