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June 2020
Real Talk: Intentional Conversations Between the Races
Join us in reflective activities, really hard conversations about race, and the shared drive to get to the other side of being uncomfortable with what we don't know.
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. What: Member Only Open Forum Date: Wednesday June 17, 2020 When: 12 noon Pacific, 1 pm Mountain, 2 pm Central, 3 pm Eastern, 9 pm Central Europe (or adjust for your time zone) This event is for CUC Connect Premium…
Find out more »Support and Development Series
The Center for Understanding in Conflict is offering an online Support and Development Advanced Training Series specifically designed for the COVID 19 era. This series of three meetings are an opportunity to convene with other conflict professionals and explore how what is happening inside of us impacts our professional and personal lives. These intimately small classes are structured to include self-reflection, discussion, and working through actual cases and challenges brought by participants. There will be guided meditations, journaling, as well as lively discussion and teachings.
Find out more »July 2020
Dealing with External Forces (Webinar)
Greek Chorus, Tribe, Adversarial Consulting Attorneys, and More In the Understanding-based model, the parties in conflict ultimately know which solution will work best, with the mediator playing a supportive role. Too often, however, external forces, such as family members full of opinions of what should be done, adversarial consulting attorneys who are lacking the necessary holistic context of the conflict, and other external forces can create upheaval along the pathway to resolution. In this webinar, we examine how mediators can…
Find out more »August 2020
Emotions (Webinar)
Emotions Versus Rationality, When Emotions Boil Over, Or No Apparent Emotions Many conflict professionals are compelled to present rationale arguments and strive to avoid too much emotion from permeating into the conflict resolution process. Yet, emotions are a necessary part of decision making, and often are the key to helping clients reach resolution by allowing them to express and better understand their emotions—or lack thereof. Additionally, conflict professionals are human beings with their own emotions and experiences that can help…
Find out more »September 2020
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, September 1, 2020 until 4 PM, September 4, 2020 Theme Conflict…
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. What: Member Only Open Forum Date: Friday September 18, 2020 When: 12 noon Pacific, 1 pm Mountain, 2 pm Central, 3 pm Eastern, 9 pm Central Europe (or adjust for your time zone) This event is for CUC Connect Premium…
Find out more »October 2020
The “Bully” (Webinar)
One of the disconcerting challenges in mediation is forceful participants and bullying behavior, which often lead to a failure in the mediation process. Sometimes individuals with active or competitive personalities are labeled as bullies, resulting in conflict resolution professionals overlooking the pivotal positive strengths and capacities these “bullies” can bring to the resolution process. In this webinar, we’ll examine attributes that are often classified as bullying, delve into how parties perceive bullying, and how we can turn bullies into benefactors.…
Find out more »November 2020
Working Creatively with Conflict: 40 Hour Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training (West Coast)
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? In this gold standard mediation training, learn how to support parties working through conflict or engaging in other important conversations in a different way. Our Understanding-Based model focuses on guiding parties to…
Find out more »Parties Understanding Each Other (Webinar)
For mediators, it is a dream to get parties in conflict to appreciate each other in ways they have not done so before. When this process, particularly popular among new mediators, ultimately fails, too often the parties in conflict are siloed and are obliged to resolve their conflict apart. At the heart of our Understanding-based model is the concept that the best path to resolution includes the parties solving their problem, together. In this webinar, we provide a more structured,…
Find out more »December 2020
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. What: Member Only Open Forum Date: Thursday December 17, 2020 When: 12 noon Pacific, 1 pm Mountain, 2 pm Central, 3 pm Eastern, 8 pm Central Europe (or adjust for your time zone) This event is for CUC Connect Premium…
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