Event Type : Advanced Mediation Trainings

Online
Jan 18 – Feb 5, 2023

Community Boards’ nationally-recognized 40-hour The Basics of Mediation teaches a practical and proven step-by-step framework to become a successful neutral third-party mediator.Participants gain the skills needed to handle a broad range of disputes and to communicate effectively. It is a highly engaging mix of discussion, role play, and coaching that builds participants’ skills step-by-step.

Trainers: Donald Proby & Karen H. Lipney
Email: smoss@communityboards.org
Website: https://sforce.co/3zCSv9L

Join the Godfather of ODR, Colin Rule, for a dynamic six week intensive course that covers the basics of online dispute resolution (ODR). This class will meet on five consecutive Thursdays in January/Feburary of 2023 from 9am to 12pm PST

The Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) revolution is here. Over the past five years the dispute resolution field has moved online, and it will never go back. Now most mediations and arbitrations default to virtual interaction, with face-to-face as an exception. Every dispute resolution process now involves technology in some way. But even more change is coming around the corner, with disruptive technologies like machine learning and quantum computing just over the horizon.

In this Masterclass, ODR pioneer Colin Rule will help you move your practice ahead of this curve. At the end of this training all participants will be prepared to lead the dispute resolution field into this new online reality, and to ensure that they benefit from these changes as opposed to being left behind. If you decide to participate, you will learn how to design and implement ODR systems, building and configuring your own ODR instance, from intake to mediation, arbitration, and settlement. 

Included in every Masterclass registration is a one-year subscription to the ODR.com platform (the most advanced ODR system available) capable of handling up to 500 cases per year (a $2600+ value). In this training Colin will assist you in the design, configuration and testing of your personal ODR.com instance, giving you the tools you will need to succeed in the age of ODR.

Masterclass participants who complete the full course will also receive certification as an ODR.com systems designer, qualifying them to configure ODR instances for client organizations, practitioners, and agencies (making them eligible to participate on future ODR projects as the platform expands).

Pricing

Registration for this class is $999 prior to December 25, and $1299 prior to January 19. Cancellations up to 30 days before the start of the Masterclass are eligible for a full refund less $250. Cancellations within 30 days before the start of the Masterclass will forfeit the full amount. Transfers and substitutions are not allowed.

Family Mediation Practicum

Complete Your 80 Hour Practicum For Accreditation As Approved By The Ontario Association For Family Mediation

The Ontario Association of Family Mediators (OAFM), Family Mediation Accreditation program, requires 100 hours of practicum experience to become an Accredited Family Mediator. OAFM allows 80 of the 100 hours to be completed using simulated cases. We offer this online practicum experience to help new mediators obtain a maximum of 80 hours towards the 100 required hours. It is an opportunity to practice and develop skills using realistic case scenarios and the hours can be counted towards your accreditation.

Module One (40 hours of Observation and Co-Mediation)

January 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 (Weekends)

Module Two (40 hours of Mediation) 

January 29, February 4, 5, 11, 12 (Weekends)

For divorce professionals interested in expanding their practice to include divorce mediation, CCND offers a 40 hour Basic Divorce Mediation Training, taught by seasoned mediators and well-respected attorneys, Eva DeFranco and Louise Zito. “The 40 Hour Mediation Training is designed to give practitioners the tools, skills and experience to competently practice divorce mediation through teachings, role plays and demonstrations,” says Attorney Eva DeFranco. “However, what I love most about this training is the transformative effect it tends to have on how the participants understand and treat conflict in both their personal and professional lives. Time and time again, we have heard that this training has improved participant’s relationships across the board.”

February 13 -14. 2023
MCLE/CEUs: (17.50 participant, 2 ethics) hours
Cost: $750.00

This is a 2-day intensive course specific to Mediating Child Protective Services (CPS) cases. The sessions include review of the complex parties of CPS mediation, understanding childhood trauma, parent dynamics, ethical issues, and the legal framework of CPS cases. This course fulfills the requirements of the State Bar of Texas and the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable for mediators doing court-ordered CPS mediation. Course Materials provided.
Prerequisite: Basic and Advanced Family Mediation Courses

Feb 25 & Mar 4, 9:30am-5:00pm PST

Conflict Coaching 101 is an intensive, two-day introduction to the principles of conflict coaching during which participants will learn to apply their current conflict resolution and mediation skills in a one-on-one situation. In addition, participants will gain new insights to this unique approach and have opportunities to practice and apply them.

Trainers: Betsy Zeger & Karen H. Lipney
Email: smoss@communityboards.org
Website: https://sforce.co/3G76QPq

Feb 25 & Mar 4, 9:30am-5:00pm PST

Conflict Coaching 101 is an intensive, two-day introduction to the principles of conflict coaching during which participants will learn to apply their current conflict resolution and mediation skills in a one-on-one situation. In addition, participants will gain new insights to this unique approach and have opportunities to practice and apply them.

Trainers: Betsy Zeger & Karen H. Lipney
Email: smoss@communityboards.org
Website: https://sforce.co/3G76QPq

In CCMA’s highly interactive virtual mediation training, you will develop your mediation skills through role-plays and interactive exercises. Plus, receive extensive one-on-one coaching and evaluations of your skill development from coaches with a wide range of experience in a variety of types of civil and family mediation. This is truly a feature that sets CCMA’s training apart from others! Mediation is as much an art as a science, and participants consistently report that the perspectives shared by their coaches are invaluable to their learning.

The training covers a variety of topics, including:

• The causes and dynamics of conflict
• Listening skills
• Negotiation theory
• Interests vs. positions – getting at the real goals in a conflict
• Diversity, power, and conflict
• Mediation techniques, and much more.

Family Mediation Practicum

Complete Your 80 Hour Practicum For Accreditation As Approved By The Ontario Association For Family Mediation

The Ontario Association of Family Mediators (OAFM), Family Mediation Accreditation program, requires 100 hours of practicum experience to become an Accredited Family Mediator. OAFM allows 80 of the 100 hours to be completed using simulated cases. We offer this online practicum experience to help new mediators obtain a maximum of 80 hours towards the 100 required hours. It is an opportunity to practice and develop skills using realistic case scenarios and the hours can be counted towards your accreditation.

Module One (40 hours of Observation and Co-Mediation)

March 23, 24, 25, 31 April 1 (Saturdays Included)

Module Two (40 hours of Mediation) 

April 13, 14, 15, 21, 22 (Saturdays Included)

Family Mediation Practicum

Complete Your 80 Hour Practicum For Accreditation As Approved By The Ontario Association For Family Mediation

The Ontario Association of Family Mediators (OAFM), Family Mediation Accreditation program, requires 100 hours of practicum experience to become an Accredited Family Mediator. OAFM allows 80 of the 100 hours to be completed using simulated cases. We offer this online practicum experience to help new mediators obtain a maximum of 80 hours towards the 100 required hours. It is an opportunity to practice and develop skills using realistic case scenarios and the hours can be counted towards your accreditation.

Module One (40 hours of Observation and Co-Mediation)

March 23, 24, 25, 31 April 1 (Saturdays Included)

Module Two (40 hours of Mediation) 

April 13, 14, 15, 21, 22 (Saturdays Included)

Family Mediation Practicum

Complete Your 80 Hour Practicum For Accreditation As Approved By The Ontario Association For Family Mediation

The Ontario Association of Family Mediators (OAFM), Family Mediation Accreditation program, requires 100 hours of practicum experience to become an Accredited Family Mediator. OAFM allows 80 of the 100 hours to be completed using simulated cases. We offer this online practicum experience to help new mediators obtain a maximum of 80 hours towards the 100 required hours. It is an opportunity to practice and develop skills using realistic case scenarios and the hours can be counted towards your accreditation.

Module One (40 hours of Observation and Co-Mediation)

March 23, 24, 25, 31 April 1 (Saturdays Included)

Module Two (40 hours of Mediation) 

April 13, 14, 15, 21, 22 (Saturdays Included)

Online
April 26 – May 13, 2023

Community Boards’ nationally-recognized 40-hour The Basics of Mediation teaches a practical and proven step-by-step framework to become a successful neutral third-party mediator.Participants gain the skills needed to handle a broad range of disputes and to communicate effectively. It is a highly engaging mix of discussion, role play, and coaching that builds participants’ skills step-by-step.

Trainers: Donald Proby & Karen H. Lipney
Email: smoss@communityboards.org
Website: https://sforce.co/3zCSv9L

Online
April 26 – May 13, 2023

Community Boards’ nationally-recognized 40-hour The Basics of Mediation teaches a practical and proven step-by-step framework to become a successful neutral third-party mediator.Participants gain the skills needed to handle a broad range of disputes and to communicate effectively. It is a highly engaging mix of discussion, role play, and coaching that builds participants’ skills step-by-step.

Trainers: Donald Proby & Karen H. Lipney
Email: smoss@communityboards.org
Website: https://sforce.co/3zCSv9L

Complex multi-party, multi-issue conflicts often seem chaotic to mediators, diplomats, executives, and disputants. Learn to build mediation process designs that enable parties and their constituents to develop actionable and sustainable agreements. With well-constructed process strategies, mediators and conflict managers respond to conflict challenges as elements of knowable systemic dynamics.

Process design is the strategic infrastructure that enables large, diverse groups to resolve complex conflict. The numerous inter-related moving parts of parties, issues, power relations, history, dynamics, and constraints create configurations that require uniquely tailored process designs. By understanding the basic building blocks of process design and learning to refine and sequence process mechanisms, mediators and managers can effectively use the opportunities created by complexity for successful conflict resolution. Strategic process designs are implemented in international peacemaking, public policy, and business contexts.

Susan Podziba, a public policy mediator for more than 30 years, has designed and mediated scores of cases across the policy spectrum for clients including the United States Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, U.S. Institute for Peace, United Nations, The World Bank, British Council, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Emilia Romagna Regional Authority of Italy, and Negotiation Strategies Institute of Jerusalem.

Voice Of The Child Reports Foundation Training (21 Hours)

Obtain comprehensive training with a practice component to learn Voice of the Child Reports and/or Child-Inclusive Mediation. To date, professionals across Canada and beyond have completed our courses in order to obtain the knowledge and skill they need to be able to offer the service of obtaining the child’s voice in separation and divorce matters and/or child-protection matters.

This course offers advanced skill building for those who wish to provide Voice of the Child Reports and have a clinical background working with families, including but not limited to family mediators, child protection mediators, parenting coordinators, lawyers, Office of the Children’s Lawyer clinical agents and lawyers, social workers, psychologists, child protection workers, collaborative law child and family consultants, and clinical assessors.

This is a non-evaluative process that is about sharing the child’s voice with the parents. Learn how to interview children for the purpose of obtaining children’s views and preferences to be able to offer this unique service in family law cases, family dispute resolution, and child protection cases.

Taught by Melissa Kucinski, this virtual program is open to family mediators who want to advance their mediation skills to work more productively with families where cross-border parenting issues arise. This training will help family mediators spot potential issues that require additional discussion and consideration between the parents, and help the mediator have a more sophisticated understanding of how to approach these complex multi-jurisdictional situations. The training will cover the legal and practical aspects of international custody, child relocation, and child abduction that may arise when a family’s background includes more than one jurisdiction.

Dates: June 22, 23, 26, & 27, 2023 from 9:30 AM—1:30 PM PST daily