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5 Day Advanced ADR - Mediation Skills Training Course Including 1 Day Assessment for Accreditation ~ 23 to 27 April 2012 ~ London
Duration: 5 days - 23 to 27 April 2012
Presented by the Stitt Feld Handy Group
Including 1 Day Assessment for Accreditation
Solicitors Regulation Authority CPD (ref: CEZ/CADR) and Bar Standards Board CPD
Course Fee: £2700 + VAT per person
(Discounts available for early booking, group bookings and in-house courses)
This exceptional five day workshop will teach participants the process of mediation and will help them develop the skills needed to act as mediators professionally, in the workplace and elsewhere and when representing parties in complex commercial disputes. The course is very practical and focused on skill building through role-plays. Each exercise is progressively more challenging and participants will learn the skills to deal with difficult people, difficult issues and difficult problems. Participants will role-play in a private setting and the trainers will supervise parts of each role-play and provide feedback to participants. Each participant will have an opportunity to role-play in the roles of sole mediator, co-mediator, participant at mediation and lawyer representing a client at mediation. At the same time a full analysis is given of mediation rules and procedure with discussion phases and study.
Participants will be assessed during the course and on day 5 and will be required to complete a written paper within 14 days of the course which will also be assessed.
Schedule
Day 1
The course will focus on the Harvard method of Principled Negotiation (developed by Roger Fisher at Harvard Law School). Participants will engage in exercises that will help them understand Principled Negotiation which is the basis for the model of mediation that ADR Chambers UK espouses. Participants will watch a video of Professor Fisher helping to resolve a particularly difficult business dispute.
Day 2
The trainers will present the model of mediation and conduct a demonstration of how a relevant and difficult mediation might proceed. Participants will then participate in an international business dispute mediation role-play exercise and will watch a bespoke video of a well known American mediator mediating that same dispute.
Day 3
The course focuses on key issues: framing, the use of caucus, and dealing with difficult people. Participants will engage in three role-plays, a construction dispute, a wrongful termination of employment dispute, and a personal injury action.
Day 4
Participants will engage in a family business dispute mediation and will study the videoed comparable practice. Participants will finally engage in a mediation exercise with difficult people who are trying to derail the mediation process.
Day 5
The process for assessment will be reviewed. Participants will be assessed based on the demonstration of core mediation skills in the course of their two mediations as mediator, each lasting at least one hour. By the end of the day, each participant will have acted twice as mediator and two or more times as a participant in mediation, with each person receiving feedback from the assessors at the end of their mediation.
The presenter: Paul Godin
Paul D. Godin is a Toronto-based mediator, lawyer, negotiator, facilitator, trainer, banking ombudsman, and ADR systems designer at the Stitt Feld Handy Group/ADR Chambers. He has lectured in Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) at the University of Toronto, University of Oregon, and University of Windsor Law Schools and teaches contracting principles to project and contract managers. Paul has designed and led courses on ADR, Negotiation, and System Design worldwide for the general public and organizations including Qantas, BDO, Scotiabank, TD Bank, Hill & Knowlton, the Trade Union Congress (Bahamas), Mattel, General Dynamics, INCO, YUM Brands, Ontario Power Generation, Alliance Atlantis, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, AECON, AECL, the UN, the Governments of Ethiopia, Canada, Australia, Bermuda and others. Read more about Paul Godin
Feedback
"Paul Godin is an excellent teacher. He establishes a good rapport with the group, involves every member, maintains control of the discussion and covers a huge amount of material very effectively. The thought that has gone into the structure of the course is very impressive." Judith Bryant, Barrister
"Paul was one of the best teachers I have had." Emma Webster, Solicitor
"Very effective in communicating the process of mediation. Liberal use of examples very helpful in explaining the approach to be taken whilst, at the same time, not being too prescriptive." Kerry Glanville, Solicitor
"Excellent!" Richard Devereux-Cooke, Barrister/Mediator
"First Class!" Tim Matthews, Chartered Surveyor/Mediator
Successful participants will be accredited. Newly accredited Mediators are prior to practice as a Mediator recommended to comply with Civil Mediation Council criteria then in force which include a requirement to observe a number of live mediations.
For further details of the Stitt Feld Handy Group, the courses they run throughout the world, feedback from those they have trained and their instructors, all of whom are experienced mediators, see www.adr.ca
To register or for more information please call 0845 072 0111
or email: duggan@adrchambers.co.uk