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SUMMARY:Understanding in a Polarized World: Using the Understanding-Based Model in Our Communities and Families
DESCRIPTION:Polarization shows up everywhere\, at the family table\, in our neighborhoods and community groups\, and in the wider world we read about every day. When we’re caught in it\, it’s easy to feel pulled toward arguing\, avoiding\, or giving up. \nIn this webinar\, Gary Friedman and Hansa Patel will discuss how the principles\, concepts\, and tools of the Understanding-Based Model can help us meet these conflicts differently. Rather than trying to win\, persuade\, or find the “right” answer\, the model invites us to understand ourselves and the other person more deeply\, which can open possibilities that positional arguing closes off. \nJoin us on November 19 to: \n\n\nExplore the core ideas of the Understanding-Based Model and how they apply beyond the mediation room \n\n\nSee how these tools can be used in real conflicts with family members\, neighbors\, and community members \n\n\nLearn ways to stay open and engaged in conversations where views sharply differ \n\n\nWhether you’re a mediator\, conflict professional\, coach\, leader\, or simply someone who wants to approach hard conversations with more curiosity and less reactivity\, you’ll leave with practical ways to bring understanding into your conflicts. \nPresenters \nHansa Patel is an attorney\, mediator\, and teacher.  As an attorney\, Hansa zealously advocated for abused and neglected children or defended their parents’ rights in the San Francisco juvenile dependency court for fourteen years.  Hansa is passionate about serving the underprivileged community.  Feeling depleted by the court system\, Hansa explored new ways to empower her clients to resolve conflict.  Mediation empowers Hansa’s clients to choose how they want to engage with conflict\, co-create resolutions\, and even transform a relationship.  In the USA\, Canada\, and Africa\, Hansa teaches mediation\, including integrating mindfulness skills into conflict resolution.  Hansa wants her clients to have the same tools she cultivates in her children:  a mindful approach to resolving challenges in life. \nGary J. Friedman has been practicing law as a mediator with Mediation Law Offices in Mill Valley\, California since 1976\, integrating mediative principles into the practice of law and the resolution of legal disputes. Co-founder of the Center for Understanding in Conflict (formerly the Center for Mediation in Law)\, he has been teaching mediation since 1980. Prior to his work as a mediator\, he practiced law as a trial lawyer with Friedman and Friedman in Bridgeport\, Connecticut. After several years as an advocate\, he sought a new approach to resolving disputes through increasing the participation of the parties in the resolution of their differences. At that time\, he and his colleague\, Jack Himmelstein\, began to develop the Understanding-based model that is now practiced extensively in the United States and Europe.
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