CPD Training for Mediators ~ Mediation in Practice - Expanding Your Toolkit 2

Mediation in Practice - Expanding Your Toolkit 2

Solicitors Regulation Authority CPD (Ref: CEZ/ADRC) and Bar Standards Board CPD

This workshop is open to those who have successfully completed a recognised Mediator Training Course and is designed to build on the mediation skills already developed by participants during training and in practice.

This course is a rare chance to get up close and personal with a leading ADR practitioner, Paul Godin of the Stitt Feld Handy Group, to discuss challenges facing every mediator, including challenges and nightmare mediations from your own experience. Engage in stimulating small and large group discussions on a variety of case studies and real life challenges. Building on last year’s very successful Expanding Your Toolkit session, this course ventures further into new topics that include:

• Using pre-mediation caucuses both administratively and substantively to set the table for effective mediation and to establish your credibility as a mediator;
•  Using a full spectrum of evaluative tools that characterise successful commercial mediators, in a way that balances reality testing and self-determination of the parties. Though often vilified, we will explore the value evaluative techniques have when properly used and the challenges in using them;

• Learning the basics of ADR (Conflict Management) System Design from an experienced practitioner;
• Sharing views on the nature of and responses to practical mediation challenges identified by the group.

Participants will discuss ethical and practical challenges, recent developments in ADR locally and worldwide and exchange practical tips based on their own experiences, all in a friendly informal setting. Part of the agenda will be a free-flowing discussion tailored to your challenges and experiences, not just a pre-set syllabus. Everyone will have the chance not only to practice real world skills using real world examples, but to work on challenges relevant to them.

Paul Godin is the author of "Principles of Negotiation" and "A Practical Guide to Conflict Management System Design" in CHH Canada’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Manual. He has consulted with both public and private sector clients on creating ADR systems and has been a key member of bar association task forces responsible for legislation and recommendations on such topics as Commercial Mediation, Judicial Mediation, Mandatory Mediation, Employment Law Reform, and others. He is a practicing mediator and ADR consultant as well as a trainer active worldwide.

For details of the Stitt Feld Handy Group, the courses which they run throughout the world, feedback from those they have trained and their instructors, all of whom are experienced mediators, see www.adr.ca For details of ADR Chambers UK and our range of services see www.adrchambers.co.uk

To register or for more information please call 0845 072 0111 or email:  duggan@adrchambers.co.uk