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Live Webinar Recording – November, 2025
Conflict professionals often find themselves in complex situations where personal relationships, professional connections, or prior involvements create potential conflicts of interest.
How do we recognize these ethical gray areas?
When should we proceed with caution, seek consultation, or decline engagement altogether?
Join experienced practitioners Caitlin Meredith and Marie MacNichol for an engaging exploration of the nuanced challenges conflict professionals face when managing conflicts of interest. This session will examine real-world scenarios including:
- Personal relationships with parties or their representatives
- Professional connections that may compromise neutrality
- Prior involvement in related matters or organizations
- Financial interests that could influence judgment
- Community ties and overlapping social networks
- Dual relationships and boundary management
We will explore frameworks for ethical decision-making, learn strategies for transparent disclosure, and consider when consultation with colleagues or professional bodies is essential.
Whether you’re a mediator, facilitator, ombudsperson, or other conflict resolution professional, this session will strengthen your ability to navigate these challenging situations while maintaining professional integrity.
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Understanding-Based Fundamentals
Why Bringing People in Conflict Together Works
Developing and Framing Interests
Looping
The 6 Underlying Concepts
Going Down the Why Trail
The Power of Looping in Conflict Resolution
The Driving Force: Unpacking Motivations
Looping the Dynamic
Inner Work
Inside Out: Self Reflection For Conflict Professionals
Inside Out: The Relationship between Inner and Outer
Being Yourself in the Room
Nine Practices to Change Your Awareness and Presence
Internal Experience: Understanding Ourselves to Authentically Connect Clients to Each Other
Harnessing Inner Awareness for Meaningful Conversations
In the Mediation Room
Preparing Parties for Mediation
Structuring the Process
Brainstorming and Evaluating Options
Judgments and Curiosity
Working in the Same Room and Dealing with a Request for Caucus
Mediator Advice: Is It Ever Appropriate?
Conflict Resolution Professionals: What to Do When You Are Stuck
Risky Moves: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Dealing with External Forces
Parties Understanding Each Other
I Knew What Would Happen
How Can Contracting Take a Whole Session?
Interest-Based Negotiation: Exploring Interests to Identify Opportunities for Compromise
Why We Don’t Tell People What to Do
Shifting Focus: All About Interests
Assessing the Ability to Participate in Mediation
When Progress Stops: Navigating Impasse in Conflict Resolution
People and Personality
4 Things To Do When Emotions Flare
Emotions
Culture and Conflict Engagement
Gender and Conflict
Conflict Styles and Patterns
Real Talk
Being an Anti-racist Conflict Professional
Conflict through Race and Culture Lenses
Trauma and Conflict
The Bully
Intimate Partner Violence and Consensual Dispute Resolution
Disability Inclusion and Accessibility in Conflict Resolution
Interfering Influencers—What to Do About Them?
Climate of Conflict: Common Ground to Constructive Conversation in an Increasingly Divided World
Starting at Sorry: Apology to Accountability on the Path of Forgiveness
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Neutrality and Objectivity
Power: Understanding or Coercion?
Power Imbalance: The Power of Personality and Patterns
Power Imbalance: The Power of Possessing
Power Imbalance: The Power of Position
Power Imbalance: Putting it all Together
Positive Neutrality
The End Game – How to Move to An Agreement
Endgame: Questions & Issues
The Storm Out: What to Do When It Happens
Working with Ground Rules
6 Underlying Concepts: Refining the Process
Messy Conflict: Transforming Toxic Disputes
Legal Consideration
3 Mistakes Lawyers Make that Keep Them (and Their Clients) Stuck in Conflict
Why Bring in the Law and How to Do It
When Lawyers Are In The Room
When Lawyers Are in the Room 2
Untying the Knot: Making Sense of Divorce Mediation
Webinar Effective Mediation in Small Claims Court
Working with Lawyers in the Room – Part 1 (2025)
Working with Lawyers in the Room – Part 2 (2025)
In the Workplace
Taking the Plunge: How to Bring the Understanding Based Model Into Your Work
Finding Value in Conflict: Navigating Workplace Mediation
Conflict Resolution Through Workplace Mediation
Organizational Response: Avoid Exacerbating Conflict
Conflict Coaching: Practices and Principles
Conflict Coaching: Unlocking Solutions Through ADR
Constructive Conversations: Understanding-Based Workplace Applications
Beyond the Heat: Practical De-escalation Skills for Work and Life
From Conflict to Collaboration: Workplace Mediation Lessons That Apply Everywhere
Practical Tools
The Business Side of Mediation
Top Tips for Starting an ADR Practice
Moving Mediation Online
Virtual Mediation Revisited
Spirit of Collaboration: Starting and Managing a Peer Group
Getting Started: Building an ADR Practice
Managing Conflicts of Interest in Conflict Resolution Practice