This Week in Mediation #795

• Minding Your Tongue: How to Recover from a Slip and Fail
  Dr. Jacqueline Burnett-Brown
• What’s Sex Got to Do With it: Questioning Research on Gender & Negotiation
  Michael Moffit
• Conflict: Blown Divorce Done Differently!
  Denise French
• Choose the Road Less Traveled in Conflict
  Meredith Richardson
• Do Parties Trust Mediators When They’re Not in the Same Room? 
  Jennifer Shack

• ‘Restorative Practices at Penn’ offers conflict and mediation services for students
  In a recent disciplinary report, Penn announced that mediation and conflict services for students have been expanded to the Restorative Practices at Penn Program within the Office of Student Conduct.
• Mediation ongoing between 2013 Louisville basketball players and NCAA
  The final buzzer has not yet sounded on mediation efforts between the NCAA and a group of former Louisville basketball players suing to restore the 2013 national championship.
• Is Your Pre-Litigation Mediation Clause Well-Drafted? A Cautionary Tale from California
  The popularity of pre-litigation mediation clauses continues to grow. Such clauses are appealing because they provide parties with a window of opportunity to settle a dispute before becoming embroiled in litigation and incurring all of the attendant costs.
• MVRHS looks at two mediators in funding formula negotiations
  The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is looking at two firms that could be hired to facilitate discussions surrounding the regional funding formula.
• County dispute over new court computer system heads to mediation
  A lawsuit filed by the Medina County Board of Commissioners against Medina County Domestic Domestic Relations Court Judge Mary Kovack has been referred to mediation by the Ohio Supreme Court.
• Rick Pitino returns to Louisville for mediation in breach of contract lawsuit
  Rick Pitino was back in Louisville on Tuesday hoping to reach a settlement with the University of Louisville Athletic Association. After eight-and-a-half hours of mediation between Pitino's legal team and U of L Athletics inside the Federal Courthouse Building in downtown Louisville, no comment to reporters.
• Snyder: A Mediation Quiz
  Find out how much you know about mediation with this short true/false quiz.
• The Role Of Humor In Mediation - No Laughing Matter!
  Mediation is serious business. But, nonetheless, a process which has room for – and, indeed, a need for – humor at the right moments.
• Lawsuit over Biden motorcade crash resolved in mediation
  DOVER, Del. — An attorney for a Delaware woman who filed a lawsuit over a car accident involving a Joe Biden vice presidential motorcade says the case has been resolved in mediation.

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• September 12-October 31 - ONLINE - Basic Mediation Training
• September 13 - Houston TX - Arbitration Training in Houston’s Uptown-Galleria
• September 16 - Austin Area TX - 10 Hour Arbitration Training
• September 17-October 14 - Los Angeles CA - Basic Mediation Training
• September 17-18 - Austin Area TX - 20 Hour Child Protective Services Mediation Training
• September 17 - Fairfax VA - Civility in the Workplace
• September 18-21 - Tucson AZ - Association for Conflict Resolution 2019 Conference
• September 19 - Fairfax VA - Mediating Complex and Multiparty Civil Cases
• September 19-25 - Hamden CT - CCND’S 40 Hour Basic Divorce Mediation Training
• September 19-20 - North Haven CT - Deliberative Dialogue Moderator Training
• September 19-21 - Toronto ON Canada- Learn to Meet & Interview Children for ADR: 12 Step VCR (Reports)
• September 23-27 - College Park MD - 40-Hour Mediation Training
• September 23-27 - Atlanta GA - 40 Hour Basic Mediation Skills Course
• September 25 - Fairfax VA - Mediating EEO and Workplace Disputes
• September 25-27 - Warner Robins GA  - Arbitration Training
• September 25-28 - Houston TX - Basic Mediation Training in Houston’s Uptown-Galleria
• September 26 - Fairfax VA - Solution Focused Problem Solving
• September 27 - Fairfax VA - Considering Cultural Issues in Mediation 
• September 27-28 - San Diego CA - Collaboratively Representing Clients in Mediation and in Pre-Marital Agreements
• September 27 - Phoenix AZ - Ethics in the Trenches for Family Mediators
• September 28-29 - Richmond VA - 2019 Virginia Mediation Network Annual Fall Conference
• September 30-October 4 - Macon GA - Civil Mediation Training & Practicum
• October 1-19 - Santa Ana CA - 40 Hour Basic Mediation Training
• October 2-11 - North Haven CT - 40-Hour Mediation Certificate Program
• October 2-3 - Fairfax VA - Mediation Practicum: Civil Cases
• October 2-5 - New Braunfels TX - Basic Mediation Training - 40 Hours
• October 3-6 - San Diego CA -Four Day Family Law Mediation Training
• October 5-13 - San Francisco CA - The Basics of Mediation
• October 5-November 2 - San Francisco CA - Ron's Mediator Certificate Training at BASF
• October 8-9 - Fairfax VA - Facilitation and Group Consensus Building
• October 9-12 - San Antonio TX - Basic Mediation 4 -Day Course
• October 9-11 - Houston TX - Advanced Mediation: Family-Divorce-Child Custody Training
• October 10 - New York NY - Effective Mediation Advocacy: Skills and Strategies for Litigators
• October 11 - Carrboro NC - Conflict Resolution Skills Training
• October 11 - Ft. Lauderdale FL - 8hr Advanced Mediation Training
• October 11 - Houston TX - Domestic Violence for Advance Family Training required by TX legislation 
• October 14-17 - Richmond VA - Conflict Management Coaching Workshop
• October 14-18 - Austin Area TX - 40 Basic Mediation Training
• October 14-17 - Dallas TX - Basic Mediation 4-Day Course
• October 16-20 - Springfield MO - Civil and Family (Domestic) Mediation Training
• October 18-19 - Houston TX - Parenting Coordination and Facilitation Training
• October 21-23 - Baltimore MD - International Ombudsman Association - Foundations Course
• October 21-23 - Bolívar, Provincia de Cartagena Colombia - Conflict Resolution Grounded on Organizational Ombudsman Practice
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• October 24-25 - Chicago IL - Collaborative Divorce Training
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• November 1-2 - Portland OR - 33rd Oregon Mediation Association Conference
• November 1-2 - Jeju Island South Korea - 9th Asia Pacific Mediation Forum (APMF) Conference
• November 4-6 - Austin Area - 30 Hour Advanced Mediation Training
• November 5-7 - Atlanta GA - Mediation in Special Education
• November 7-December 19 - ONLINE - Conflict Management Coaching Workshop (Virtual)
• November 7-8 - Harford CT - Two-Day Basic Interdisciplinary Collaborative Training
• November 7-9 - Boston MA - APFM - ADFP - MCFM Annual Conference: "Next Generation of Innovation"
  

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