This Week in Mediation #864

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• Landscape of Dispute Resolution
  Anwar Kashif Mumtaz
• How to AVOID Conflict Gracefully
  Ron Kraybill
• Authenticity in Conflict
  Kathleen Kauth
• [PODCAST] Reflecting on Nine Months of Virtual ADR
  Adrienne Publicover and David Ross

• Legal Problems between Business Partners Can be Resolved with Mediation Tools in Costa Rica
  It is important that Tico companies have a shareholders agreement, real statutes and good advice to understand how to apply corporate governance
• Court urges family to make efforts to mediate in dispute over hotel business
  A High Court judge has urged that further efforts be made to mediate a dispute between family members over the running of a company that owns hotels in Dublin and Galway employing 180 people.
• EEOC Announces Extension of Act Mediation Pilot
  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced that it was extending the pilot program that expanded opportunities to voluntarily resolve charges through mediation through Sept. 30, 2021.
• Why we need more women mediators
  Nevertheless, there is also a deeper meaning to mediation. It is to reveal how conflict and peace share a similar human face: fear, anger, hope and social belonging.
• Changes to the California Family Rights Act and Small Employer Family Leave Mediation
  California Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 1383 (SB 1383) which greatly expanded the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). Changes include: Expanded Definition of Family Members – The list of family members is expanded to include siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and domestic partners. Additionally, the definition of “child” now covers all adult children as well as children of a domestic partner.
• Clear Space, theater complex opponents enter into mediation
  With new public hearings scheduled, former AG Gebelein agrees to help groups reach consensus
• Moving America forward: lessons from the mediation table
  As a mediator, I have helped thousands of people, some of them diametrically opposed, find compromise. Along the way, I’ve learned valuable lessons that can be applied on a larger scale to help our nation find a way forward.

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• January 14 - ONLINE VA - Your Brain (and Body) on Conflict!
• January 15 - ONLINE AZ - Third Annual Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution Conference
• January 18 - ONLINE TX- 10 Hour Arbitration Training
• January 19 - ONLINE TX - 20 Hour Arbitration Training
• January 22 - ONLINE TX - Dynamics of Domestic Violence
• January 22-31 - ONLINE TX - 40-hour Basic Mediation Training
• January 26-February 4 - 40-Hour Family and Divorce Mediation Training
• January 28 - ONLINE VA - Introduction to Conflict Coaching
• January 28-31 - ONLINE ID - 20 hour Restorative Justice Mediation Training
• January 28-February 12 - ONLINE CA - Mediating the Litigated Case - ONLINE
• January 29 - ONLINE - Advanced Parenting Plan Mediation - With Focus on Children under Five and over 15 Years
• January 29 - ONLINE FL - The Art of MEDIATION
• February 1-28 - ONLINE TX - Online Basic Mediation 40-Hour - Live Video Classroom
• February 4-21 - ONLINE ID - 40 Hour Basic Mediation Training via Zoom
• February 4 - ONLINE TX - The Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of Culture Awareness and Sensitivity within a Diverse Workforce
• February 4 - ONLINE NY - Guess What – Your Online Mediation May Not Be Confidential
• February 5-6 - ONLINE TX - Parenting Coordination and Facilitation Training -Zoom Live
• February 8-11 - ONLINE CANADA - Alternative Dispute Resolution Workshop
• February 11 - ONLINE - Practical Assertiveness: Mean what you say, say what you mean, and don’t say it mean!
• February 12 - ONLINE FL - The Art of MEDIATION
• February 12 - ONLINE TX - Dynamics of Domestic Violence
• February 15-19 - ONLINE TX - 40 Basic Mediation Training
• February 17-21 - ONLINE FL - Florida Supreme Court Civil Mediation Certification Training 40 hours (5 days)
• February 18-March 6 - ONLINE CA - Community Boards: The Basics of Mediation - ONLINE
• February 19-March 26 - ONLINE - Conflict Management Coaching Workshop (French)
• February 19-27 - ONLINE OK - 40 Hr National Family and Divorce Mediation Training
• February 22-24 - ONLINE TX - 30 Hour Advanced Mediation Training - Online
• February 23-March 17 - ONLINE ON Canada - Conflict Management Coaching Workshop (Virtual)
• February 25 - ONLINE - Are You Talking to ME?!! - Dealing with Difficult People.
• March 1-12 - ONLINE - LIVE Mediating Online: Family & Divorce Mediation
• March 3-6 - ONLINE TX - Advanced Mediation: Family-Divorce-Child Custody Training
• March 3-12 - Online - 40 hour Mediation Training - Live Webinar
• March 5 - ONLINE TX - Domestic Violence for Advance Family Training required by TX legislation
• March 6-14 - ONLINE TX - 30-hour Family Mediation Training
• March 8-April 6 - ONLINE TX - Communicate & Manage Conflict with Verbal Aikido

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