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SUMMARY:Self-Reflection for Conflict Professionals Intensive (SCPI) 2024
DESCRIPTION:CUC invites you to join our first online introductory cohort of SCPI\, where conflict resolution professionals commit to exploring together practices of self-reflection that are constructive for ourselves and productive for our clients.\nTogether we will:\n\nLearn about compassionately connecting with and understanding\, in the context of our various histories\, positions\, and intersections\,  our deeper impulses fueling our commitment to working with people in conflict.\nRecognize barriers to self-understanding and constructive presence\, such as general reactivity\, judgment\, insecurity\, anger\, or the desire for control.\nWork with those barriers in ways that bring us closer to ourselves and our clients.\nExplore SCPI concepts and skills through the specific experiences of cohort participants.\nDiscuss how to integrate inner experience and external action.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will practice various self-reflection methods during six group online sessions over six months (approximately 1 three hour group session monthly) and in-between sessions individually (daily) and 1-1 peer meetings (weekly).\n\n\nThis program is for anyone whose work includes helping people navigate conflicts\, including mediators in various community and professional contexts\, human resource managers\, team leaders\, volunteer coordinators\, ombudspersons\, lawyers\, mental health and financial and fiduciary professionals\, and other similar professionals. Participants can be previously trained in or identified with the CUC understanding-based model\, but it is not a requirement.\n\nWhile we wish that everyone who wishes to attend could\, there will be a limited number of participants to ensure everyone has an impactful and productive experience and maintain strong connections between group members.\n\n\nDATES AND TIMES FOR ONLINE GROUP SESSIONS VIA ZOOM\n9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST on the following dates in 2024: \nJanuary 20th\nFebruary 10th\nMarch 8th**\nApril 26th**\nMay 11th\nJune 8th\nAll dates are Saturdays except those marked**\, which are Fridays.\nCOST\nThe cost will be $750 per participant for the 6-month program.\n\nParticipants will also need to access for themselves:\n\nA copy of Inside Out: How Conflict Professionals Can Use Self-Reflection to Help Their Clients\, by Gary Friedman. Paper copies are available for purchase through online stores for approximately $35 – 55.\nTheir own self-selected or crafted paper journal for use throughout the program.\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION\nRegistration is now closed. Please email james@understandinginconflict.org to inquire about the waitlist. Thank you for your interest!\n\n\n  \nFACILITATORS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeba Nimr has worked in various capacities for more than 30 years with families and organizations challenging systemic barriers to equity\, as well as navigating interpersonal conflicts and abuse. Heba brings and builds on those experiences in her current practice\, based in Oakland for ten years and counting\, as a lawyer and mediator focused primarily in the areas of family law\, and life\, legacy and death planning.  She has particular strength and interest in conflict resolution in multicultural and multilingual settings. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNorman Fischer is a poet\, author\, Zen Buddhist priest and former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. As founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org)\, his work with meditation practice has taken him into many corners of contemporary American life including the arts\, education\, hospice training\, education\, and lawyering as a spiritual path. Recently\, he began offering meditation training to engineers at Google. Norman has worked with the Center for Understanding in Conflict on inquiries that focus on bringing the calmness and insight of meditation practice directly into conflict situations. Norman has written 29 books. His latest books are Untitled Series: Life As It is and The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Sullivan is a mediator\, facilitator\, and litigator who brings the power of understanding to her work. Jennifer’s background as a commercial litigator informs her focus on mediating civil and business disputes. She presents and teaches regularly on mediation techniques\, is a member of the ADR Section of the Colorado Bar Association; a co-owner of a litigation\, mediation\, and corporate boutique law firm; and is the Senior Assistant Dean for Administration and Program Development at the University of Colorado Law School. She is a strong believer in second chances and is involved in a Boulder non-profit that supports formerly incarcerated individuals who are re-entering society.
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SUMMARY:Getting Started: Building an ADR Practice
DESCRIPTION:Embarking on a career transition bringing together parties in conflict can be a formidable journey\, often fraught with uncertainties and questions. Whether you’re contemplating a switch due to dissatisfaction\, seeking new challenges\, or aiming for personal growth\, this webinar provides invaluable insights and guidance. \nJoin Catherine Conner and Melanie Rowen on Monday\, May 13th\, for tips that will help demystify the transition process while delving into crucial questions such as where to begin\, what factors to consider before making a leap\, and which skills and experiences are instrumental in navigating this transformative journey.
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SUMMARY:16-Hour Advanced Matrimonial Mediation Training Online (East Coast)
DESCRIPTION:To register\, scroll to the bottom of this page. \nMay 29 & 30\n10:00 AM – 2:00 PM PST | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST\nJune 5\, 2024\n8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST | 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST\nJune 6\, 2024\n10:00 AM – 2:00 PM PST | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST\nONLINE \n_______________ \nJoin the Center for Understanding in Conflict for a comprehensive 16-hour Advanced Matrimonial Mediation Training. \nOur trainers have designed this program to benefit those practicing in New York. However\, it is appropriate and applicable for professionals of all disciplines\, including jurists\, lawyers\, collaborative professionals\, business consultants\, executive coaches\, managers and supervisors\, human resources professionals\, ombuds-people\, non-profit staff\, and other people whose work will be enhanced by increased skills in conflict resolution. \nCore Concepts\nThis highly engaging program will: \n\nTeach participants relevant New York State matrimonial and family law.\nTeach advanced skills helpful to mediate divorces and family cases effectively rooted in the understanding-based model.\nQualifies as an advanced mediation course approved under Part 146.4(b)(2) of the Rules of the Chief Administrative Judge of New York State.\nProvide 16 hours of NYS CLE credits.\nCan be combined with the 24-hour Basic Mediation Training Course to receive a 40-hour completion certificate.\n\n  \n \n\nWhat is the Format of this Training?\nParticipants will learn matrimonial law through discussions and advanced mediation skills through role-plays and interactive exercises.  This hands-on\, online training also trains the core skills of the Understanding Based Approach\, through lively demonstrations and role-plays\, all of which immerse participants in the learning. Realistic simulations\, in which participants work through mediations with coaching from our teachers\, offer participants the chance to hone their skills and experience the emotional challenges faced by parties in dispute. Participants describe these different modes of learning and their interplay as engaging and rewarding. \nWhich topics will be covered?\n\nHarnessing the power of understanding to assist the parties in reaching fuller and more satisfying agreements.\nPracticing advanced mediation techniques to address challenging family dynamics.\nTeaching the laws on child support\, maintenance\, equitable distribution of marital assets/debts\, and parenting (custody/visitation\, decision-making authority).\nLearning to navigate the role of law and lawyers in divorce mediation.\n\nWho Can Participate? \nThis advanced training is open to those who have completed prior mediation training. If you are still determining whether your training meets this requirement\, please get in touch with james@understandinginconflict.org \n  \n \n  \nCost\nThe program training fee is $900 for the four\, half-days. \n  \n**Those who have taken the 24-hour Basic Mediation course in April\, 2024 are also eligible to receive a 10% training fee discount. Please contact james@understandinginconflict.org if this applies to you. \n** The maximum discount available from all sources is 10% of the training fee. \nFinancial aid may be available for training fees.  Please contact us at admin@understandinginconflict.org for details or for any questions regarding logistics. \n  \n  \n \n\nWho Are the Trainers?\nAntoinette Delruelle has been a mediator since 2009 and an attorney since 1994. Before starting the Mediation Project at the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) in 2013\, she represented survivors of domestic violence in divorces and family cases for eighteen years and has taught mediation to legal services attorneys and NYS court staff and mediates divorces\, parenting\, and child permanency cases for New York City’s five borough courts. Antoinette was president of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York from 2014 to 2016 and is on the Center for Understanding in Conflict board. She is a member of the statewide ADR Advisory Committee formed by former Chief Judge DiFiore in April 2018 to give recommendations on how to increase the use of ADR in the NYS court system. \nIvan Alter is a collaborative attorney and mediator with offices in Westchester County and New York City and an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. Practicing law since 1994\, Ivan previously had a career as a commercial and matrimonial litigator before discovering the understanding based model at the CUC. Since then\, Ivan has focused all of his professional energies on practicing\, promoting\, and teaching mediation and collaborative law. He is member of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals\, the Family and Divorce Mediation Council\, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals\, and Northern Westchester Collaborative Divorce. \nMichelle Exline Minovi is a highly skilled divorce and family mediator with 12+ years family law experience.  As Managing Attorney at the legal services non-profit Ayuda in Washington\, D.C.\, Michelle represented low-income and Spanish-speaking immigrant clients in complex matrimonial cases in the context of domestic violence. After moving to Brooklyn\, Michelle litigated and won sole custody on behalf of a mother of two children who was forced to leave the ultra-orthodox community because she identified as queer. After three years of intense litigation\, Michelle wondered if there was an alternative way to divorce. Michelle knew she had to pivot from litigation to mediation when she took her first mediation training at the Center for Understanding Conflict. \n\nGuest Trainer on Family Systems\, Emotional Aspects of Separation and Divorce on Adult and Minor children\, and Age Appropriate Parenting\nTanya Leach is an attorney\, mediator\, mitigation specialist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. She began her transition from litigation to mediation and psychotherapy in 2013\, studying mediation at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and the Center for Understanding in Conflict and psychoanalysis at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (“NIP”)\, while volunteering at NYLAG’s Mediation Project\, providing lowcost therapy at NIP’s Treatment Center\, and facilitating restorative justice work for individuals and groups in state prisons. She was President of NIP’s Professional Association (“NIPPA”) from 2018 until 2023\, is part of the Mediation Roster for the Queens County Matrimonial Part and is on the faculty of NIP. \n  \n \nIs there Continuing Education Credit?\nNew York \nIn New York\, The Mediation Intensive Training will fulfill 16 NY CLE credit hours.  For continuing legal education purposes\, the Mediation Intensive Training is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. 15 CLE credits are in skills and areas of professional practice and 1 CLE credit is in ethics \nThe Center’s in-person and online training has been approved under Part 146 by the New York State Unified Court System’s Office of ADR Programs. (Please note that final placement on any court roster is at the discretion of the local Administrative Judge and participation in a course that is either approved or pending approval does not guarantee placement on a local court roster.) \nCancellation Policy\nPlease note our cancellation policy: If you cancel 4 weeks or more prior to the program\, we return your deposit minus a $250.00 administration fee. Between 4 and 2 weeks prior to the program\, we retain 50% of the total cost of the program unless we are able to find a replacement for your seat\, in which case we will refund the fee minus the $250.00 administration fee. There are no refunds for cancellations less than two weeks prior to the program unless we can find a replacement. \nFor additional information\, please email us at admin@understandinginconflict.org or call us at (844) 242-3428. \n________________________________________ \n[1] Final placement on any court roster is at the discretion of the local Administrative Judge and participation in a course that is approved does not guarantee placement on a local court roster.  Pursuant to Part 146\, court-based mediation rosters require both a combination of mediation training and experience mediating.  Acceptance on court rosters depends on a court’s need for mediators at any given time and may include a court’s need for mediators with specific case-type training or experience and mediation experience. \n*Please select desired ticket OR deposit for ticket and quantity using the +/- feature before clicking ‘Get Tickets.’ 
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