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April 2021
Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (Online)
One spot available! Please contact kayla@understandinginconflict.org if you would like to register. April 16-17 and 22-24, 2021 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM PST | 11:00 AM - 7:30 PM EST | 5:00 PM - 1:30 AM CEST All sessions include breaks throughout the day 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…
Find out more »May 2021
Your Next Step: 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? This 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 »Co-Parent Counseling: Helping Parents Help Their Children Through Divorce
May 14 - 16 May 14 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific • 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Eastern May 15 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific • 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Eastern May 16 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Pacific • 12:00 PM - 7:30 PM Eastern May 15 and 16 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…
Find out more »Being an Anti-Racist Conflict Professional
The lenses of race, equity and culture have opened widely in the last year. Along with many other people, conflict professionals have turned to books, podcasts, documentaries, workshops and other means of learning about the systemic injustices built into American society, governance, and culture. In this webinar, we will take the next step of closely examining our own lives, practices and work habits. How do we maintain an awareness of race, equity and culture every day? What do we need…
Find out more »June 2021
CUC Connect Open Forum – VIP and Premium Members Only
This open session, exclusively for CUC Connect Premium and VIP members, is the opportunity to ask questions, share quandaries and get personal support from CUC instructors. Date June 14, 2021 Time 12 PM PDT • 3 PM EDT • 9 PM CEST Cost Free for CUC Connect VIP and Premium members. Click here to learn more. Registration Connection details will be automatically sent to VIP and Premium members approximately one week before the forum. Facilitator
Find out more »Attorneys in the Room
In this training that builds upon our one-hour webinar, we will provide a more in-depth demonstration of how to work with lawyers and clients together in the same room. Themes that will be included will be contracting with lawyers about their roles, clarifying how to have conversations about the law that will be constructive for the process, how lawyers can participate in deepening their client’s understanding of what is important to the parties underlying the conflict, and participating in supporting…
Find out more »July 2021
Looping
Date July 12, 2021 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. In this webinar, 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. The foundation is the Loop of Understanding or, as we term it, “looping.” Through demonstrating our understanding of what parties in conflict…
Find out more »August 2021
Intimate Partner Violence and Consensual Dispute Resolution
Date August 25, 2021 Time 12 PM PST • 3 PM EST • 9 PM CEST Cost $47 All webinars are free for CUC Connect members. Click here to learn more. Facilitators
Find out more »Self Reflection for Conflict Professionals – Bi-Annual Program
The Center for Understanding in Conflict will be offering an intensive program in Talloires, France in Self-Reflection and its relevance to working as a professional helping people in conflict. All conflict professionals are welcome to attend, including mediators, lawyers, therapists and anyone who works with people in conflict. Our working language will be English and fluency is a requisite for getting the most out of the program. Dates From 2 PM, August 31, 2021 until 4 PM, September 3, 2021 Theme Conflict…
Find out more »September 2021
CUC Connect Open Forum – VIP and Premium Members Only
This open session, exclusively for CUC Connect Premium and VIP members, is the opportunity to ask questions, share quandaries and get personal support from CUC instructors. Date September 24, 2021 Time 12 PM PDT • 3 PM EDT • 9 PM CEST Cost Free for CUC Connect VIP and Premium members. Click here to learn more. Registration Connection details will be automatically sent to VIP and Premium members approximately one week before the forum. Facilitator
Find out more »October 2021
I Knew What Would Happen
Humans like to create and tell stories. When a conflict arises, the parties craft their individual stories about what has already happened and what they expect will lead to the end of the conflict. When they engage a conflict professional, their story adapts to include how the conflict professional will influence the outcome, typically to their advantage. When the conflict professional walks into the room, they also have a story about what the process will look like and sometimes even…
Find out more »November 2021
Inside Out: The Relationship Between Inner and Outer
In this webinar we will focus on practices for accessing self during periods of conflict, dealing with discomfort, identifying and working with bias toward parties. Outcomes for participating in this webinar include: Practices for going inside Willingness to be in discomfort Letting go of your own goals The relationship bias in our work Date November 2, 2021 Time 10 AM PDT • 1 PM EDT • 6 PM CET Cost $47 All webinars are free for CUC Connect members. Click here…
Find out more »Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (West Coast)
November 3 - 7, 2021 Participants are required to 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…
Find out more »Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (East Coast)
November 17-21, 2021 Participants are required to 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 skills?…
Find out more »December 2021
CUC Connect Open Forum – VIP and Premium Members Only
This open session, exclusively for CUC Connect Premium and VIP members, is the opportunity to ask questions, share quandaries and get personal support from CUC instructors. Date December 14, 2021 Time 12 PM PST • 3 PM EST • 9 PM CET Cost Free for CUC Connect VIP and Premium members. Click here to learn more. Registration Connection details will be automatically sent to VIP and Premium members approximately one week before the forum. Facilitator
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