001 – Bundle One-2013 (8.4 CME Credits Including 4.2 Ethics and 4.2 Domestic Violence)
$55.00 – $67.00
002 – Bundle Two-2013 (8.4 CME Credits Including 4.2 Ethics, 2.1 Domestic Violence and 2.1 Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$55.00 – $67.00
003 – Bundle Three-2013 (8.4 CME Credits Including 4.2 Ethics)
$55.00 – $67.00This discounted bundle includes the following presentations:
PL3 - Mediator Ethics Plenary – Moderated by Janice M. Fleischer (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
B13 - CAUTION! Unwary Mediators Are Vulnerable to Grievances - Eric Dunlap (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
C1 - 10 Ways A Mediation Can Go Wrong, Mistakes & Missteps From the Trenches – J.C. O'Steen & Jason O'Steen (2.1 CME Credits General)
D8 - The Use, Overuse and Misuse of Caucus in Mediation - Harry Goodheart (2.1 CME Credits General)
004 – Bundle Four-2013 (8.4 CME Credits Including 4.2 Appellate and 4.2 Ethics)
$55.00 – $67.00This discounted bundle includes the following presentations:
PL3 - Mediator Ethics Plenary – Moderated by Janice M. Fleischer (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
B13 - CAUTION! Unwary Mediators Are Vulnerable to Grievances - Eric Dunlap (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
B12 - Why Should I Settle at Appellate Mediation? - Michael S. Orfinger (2.1 CME Credits Appellate)
D10 - The Nuts & Bolts of Appeals for Mediators - Wendy S. Loquasto (2.1 CME Credits Appellate)
005 – Bundle Five-2013 (4.2 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
$28.00 – $34.00This discounted bundle includes the following presentations:
A1 - ADR Educators' Roundtable: Issues, Trends and Best Practices - Bob Shearer and Jeanne Maes (2.1 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
C10 - Under the Microscope: Florida’s Mediation Training Standards - Kimberly Kosch (2.1 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
006 – Bundle Six-2013 (4.2 CME Credits Appellate)
$28.00 – $34.00This discounted bundle includes the following presentations:
B12 - Why Should I Settle at Appellate Mediation? - Michael S. Orfinger (2.1 CME Credits Appellate)
D10 - The Nuts & Bolts of Appeals for Mediators - Wendy S. Loquasto (2.1 CME Credits Appellate)
007 – Bundle Seven-2013 (16.8 CME Credits Including 4.2 Ethics, 4.2 Domestic Violence, 4.2 Train the Trainer and 2.1 Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$110.00 – $134.00This discounted bundle includes the following presentations:
PL3 - Mediator Ethics Plenary – Moderated by Janice M. Fleischer (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
B13 - CAUTION! Unwary Mediators Are Vulnerable to Grievances - Eric Dunlap (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
PL2 – DV Plenary: Mandatory Reporting to the Florida Abuse Hotline - Nana Gatlin and Zandra Odum (2.1 CME Credits Domestic Violence)
D2 - Domestic Violence and Mediation: The Elephant in the Room - Susan Marvin (2.1 CME Credits Domestic Violence)
A1 - ADR Educators' Roundtable: Issues, Trends and Best Practices - Bob Shearer and Jeanne Maes (2.1 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
C10 - Under the Microscope: Florida’s Mediation Training Standards - Kimberly Kosch (2.1 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
A10 - Overcoming Barriers - Ginger Malcom (2.1 CME Credits Cultural Diversity)
D8 - The Use, Overuse and Misuse of Caucus in Mediation - Harry Goodheart (2.1 CME Credits General)
A01 – ADR Educators’ Roundtable: Issues, Trends and Best Practices – Bob Shearer and Jeanne Maes (2.1 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
$15.00 – $18.00This workshop will be highly interactive as participants discuss and share 'lessons learned" from their experiences as educators and trainers. The workshop leaders will facilitate small group discussions of emerging trends, challenges, and other issues of concern for both trainers and educators in formal academic environments.
A02 – Are You an Ethical Negotiator in Mediation? – Jerry Tabas (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
$15.00 – $18.00This workshop presents scenarios in which a mediator is confronted with ethical dilemmas and is torn between negotiating what the plaintiff wants, the defendant wants, the attorneys want and what the mediator's ethical guidelines require or indicate. Where should the mediator's priorities lie?
A04 – Bypassing Impasse: Practical Strategies – Robin Caral Shaw and Amy Wolsky (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00Programs on avoiding impasse often cover familiar tools but fail to incorporate the entire mediation framework. This presentation will address the importance of respecting ethical limits and cultural diversity, and discuss the importance of mediator skill. This interactive program relies on scenarios and audience participation to provide strategies for taking the full scope of mediation into account, and allowing the mediator to empower the participants to resolve their issues and avoid impasse.
A05 – Domestic Violence: It’s Not Just A Family Thing – Andrew Wentzell (2.1 CME Credits Domestic Violence)
$15.00 – $18.00Domestic violence is an interpersonal dysfunction that can be present in a wide variety of situations - beyond the simple family abuse dynamic. All mediators should know what domestic violence is, how to spot it in a mediation, and what to do if it is present. This presentation will assist mediators in developing these skills through use of a multi-media presentation designed around group interaction.
A06 – Early Neutral Evaluation: Beginning the Dialogue – Gail Killefer and Richard Collier (No CME Credits)
$15.00 – $18.00ENE occurs at the pre-trial stage; it assists parties in
identifying the most important issues in a case, to
understand better the support for their respective
positions, to narrow and focus discovery and motion
practice, and to explore prospects for settlement before wasting time and resources on unproductive pretrial excursions.
A10 – Overcoming Barriers – Ginger Malcom (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$15.00 – $18.00This workshop examines the what do I do, what do I say, and how do I accommodate a person with a disability who enters mediation. The interactive presentation provides tips for answering these questions and aims to reduce the fear associated with meeting a person with a disability. The presentation allows participants to experience the three major groups of disabilities including hearing, visual, and mobility impairments.
A12 – The Diversity Dialogue in Mediation: Are You Culturally Literate? – Alexia Georgakopoulos (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$15.00 – $18.00From cultural awareness to cultural responsiveness, this workshop will cover how to be a culturally responsive and mindful mediator. This workshop, which draws from a Harvard study, will open a dialogue that will allow participants to be more knowledgeable of cultural differences both in verbal and nonverbal channels of communication. The notion of diversity will be discussed from multiple facets of identity that include, but are not limited to generation, faith, gender, class, ethnicity, and physical challenges.
A13 – Welcome to the Portal! E-Filing Basics for Trial and Appellate Courts – Carolyn Weber (2.1 CME Credits Appellate)
$29.00
B02 – Dispute Boards: How They Enhance Collaboration in Complex Construction Projects – Deborah Mastin and Melinda Gentile (No CME Credits)
$15.00 – $18.00This presentation will introduce participants to the concept of Dispute Boards. Dispute Boards bring collaboration to construction projects. Dispute Boards evolved from expedited arbitration into pro-active forums where the project participants work together, facilitated by the Dispute Board, to minimize any unforeseen problems during the progress of the work.
B03 – Ethical Considerations: Conflict of Interest, Impartiality & Self-Determination – Gregory Hoffmann, Bob Hoyle and William Christopher (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
$15.00 – $18.00This presentation is designed to provide attendees with a better understanding of the integration of Florida’s impartiality, self-determination and conflict of interest rules, MEAC opinions and appellate court decisions relating to mediators and arbitrators and the difficulties with the disclosure and resolution of conflict of interest issues with parties and potential unrelated third parties.
B06 – Mediation Across Borders – Angeles Carioni (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$15.00 – $18.00This workshop will demonstrate how participants can be more reflective and aware of their own culture’s biases and preferences and how those biases and preferences impact a mediation. The presenter will demonstrate a methodological approach to conciliate cultural dilemmas while offering different tips to mediate across cultures.
B07- Pre-Screening for Domestic Violence: How To Do It and Why It’s Important – Robin Caral Shaw (2.1 CME Credits Domestic Violence)
$15.00 – $18.00This interactive workshop will focus on why pre-screening for domestic violence is important and provide some guidance on what the mediator's responsibility is in a situation when domestic violence is suspected.
B08 – Thinking Fast and Slow in ADR: How Behavioral Economics Informs the ADR Process – Greg Firestone (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00This interactive workshop will introduce participants to certain concepts described by Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, in his best selling book, "Thinking Fast and Slow." Participants will have a chance to become familiar with such concepts as loss aversion, anchoring, judgment heuristics, and decision weights and will consider the implications for ADR ethics and practice.
B09 – Understanding Sharia & Family Law Mediation – Hassan Shibly (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$15.00 – $18.00Florida is home to over 200,000 American Muslims,
many of whom wish to conduct all aspects of their
life, divorce and mediation in adherence with Sharia.
What is Sharia? What impact can it have during divorce or mediation? The presentation aims to familiarize mediators with the Muslim community and give mediators a better understanding of the cultural and religious practices which may be relevant in the divorce of Muslim families.
B09 – Understanding Sharia & Family Law Mediation – Hassan Shibly (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$15.00 – $18.00This workshop will demonstrate how participants can be more reflective and aware of their own culture’s biases and preferences and how those biases and preferences impact a mediation. The presenter will demonstrate a methodological approach to conciliate cultural dilemmas while offering different tips to mediate across cultures.
B10 – Understanding Technology Based Disputes – Ira Smith (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00This workshop will focus on providing participants with the tools to understand technology based disputes and their vocabulary. We will discuss the challenges to reaching resolution in this setting. The session will be interactive with attendees having the opportunity to participate in evaluating several fact patterns while developing creative solutions.
B12 – Why Should I Settle at Appellate Mediation? – Michael S. Orfinger (2.1 CME Credits Appellate)
$15.00 – $18.00A fair question, to be sure. The existence of a trial court ruling, coupled with a pending appeal, adds layers of complexity to a facilitated negotiation. This workshop will focus primarily on the multi-level risk analysis that both appellants and appellees must undertake in order to make informed decisions about settlement of a case on appeal. This will entail a discussion of the various things the mediator must do to prepare for appellate mediation, as well as some techniques the mediator may find helpful in guiding the parties and their counsel through a risk analysis.
B13 – CAUTION! Unwary Mediators Are Vulnerable to Grievances – Eric Dunlap (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
$15.00 – $18.00Each year numerous mediation participants file grievances against certified mediators. Although many grievances never result in sanctions against the mediator, the filing of a grievance leads to unwanted stress, costs, and disruption for a mediator. This interactive presentation will review scenarios that resulted in a grievance against a mediator and will also discuss ways to reduce the possibility of a mediation participant filing a grievance.
C01 – 10 Ways A Mediation Can Go Wrong, Mistakes & Missteps From the Trenches – J.C. O’Steen & Jason O’Steen (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00The presentation outlines and explores ten common mistakes new, and not so new mediators make during mediation. It is based on real life experiences of two full-time mediators who are also father and son. The object of this presentation is to explore examples of things mediators do that hinder the mediation process and keep parties from reaching a resolution.
C02 – Can’t We All Just Get Along? Mediating Condo and HOA Disputes – Joy Ewertz (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00The Florida laws regulating Condominium and Homeowner Associations are vast, complicated and confusing. Throw in personal emotions, conflicting views and a vendetta or two and you have a recipe for huge disputes! In this session the participants will learn the basics of Florida Statutes Chapter 720 and 718 (Homeowner and Condominium Laws), who the participants are, what the most common disputes are and how to find are solution.
C03 – Diversity: Delights & Downfalls – Sharon O’Day and Cynthia Barry (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$15.00 – $18.00Every individual participating in mediation comes to the table with their own perceptions about their "position" and the "position" of every other person at the table. These perceptions can be based upon a variety of factors: the participant's gender, culture, or age among them. Mediators should not ignore this fact in both themselves and participants. This session will explore how a mediator can work to ensure the integrity of the process and promote the goals of mediation concentrating on gender and age considerations.
C04 – Domestic Violence Training for Court Mediators – Mike DeLong (2.1 CME Credits Domestic Violence)
$15.00 – $18.00This course, conducted by a retired 30+ year law enforcement veteran, will include an up-to-date review of Florida Court Injunctions and Protective Orders for Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking. The course will include a review of Florida Statute 741.28 as it pertains to Domestic Violence and Florida Statute 784.046 as it pertains to Dating Violence and Stalking.
C07 – NLP Tools for Mediators: Understanding the Language Patterns of Parties in Mediation – Liz Becker and Jason Schneider (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00Throughout the mediation process effective communication is essential. In this workshop, the presenters will seek to expand participant’s understanding of themselves and the communication patterns of others. Based on the success of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in improving negotiations and minimizing conflict, this workshop will teach participants important tools and techniques to enhance their abilities as successful mediators.
C09 – The Business of a Mediation Practice – Stephen C. Sawicki (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00This session will explore the business strategy and structures of a successful mediation practice whether as a sole practitioner, member of a mediation group, or within a law firm. This will include discussion of how to establish rates and billing for various aspects of mediation time. What role marketing plays in achieving greater exposure for your business and whether social media promotes those objectives will also be explored.
C10 – Under the Microscope: Florida’s Mediation Training Standards – Kimberly Kosch (2.1 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
$15.00 – $18.00This workshop session will provide in depth overview of the Mediation Training Standards and Procedures including the responsibilities of providers of certified mediation training programs. Information on the variable routes to primary trainer and provider status will also be highlighted. This workshop is intended for those who are currently providing certified mediation training and those who wish to.
D02 – Domestic Violence and Mediation: The Elephant in the Room – Susan Marvin (2.1 CME Credits Domestic Violence)
$15.00 – $18.00This interactive workshop will provide an intermediate to advanced level of information about what constitutes domestic violence; factors to consider in deciding whether a case is appropriate for mediation; how a mediator may recognize domestic violence in mediation from the time the mediator accepts the case until mediation is completed; which of the Rules for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators the mediator particularly needs to be aware of and may need to apply during the mediation; how to protect the mediation process, parties and participants by applying the rules; and provide the presentation attendees with scenarios to discuss in small groups.
D03 – Mediation With Veterans After the War (Iraq & Afghanistan) – Marc Garcia (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00After the long and prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, trained Mediators are needed to work with Veterans, their families, employers and others to figure out their own solutions. This presentation will introduce mediators to the issues and concerns often confronted by veterans.
D04 – Navigating Once Familiar Waters When the Charts Have Changed: People Skills and Ethical Considerations In a Changing ADR World – Jim Williams and Sandra Clemons (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
$15.00 – $18.00This session visits several common dilemmas facing the ADR professional. How one might enhance the 'people skills' and ethical acumen necessary to assist intensely conflicted parties in new applications (i.e. managed mediation programs). Students will participate in role play, lecture and 'Q&A' to further enhance their skill set in both traditional and modified ADR scenarios (managed mediation programs).
D06 – Resolving Conflict with Peer Mediation – Michelle Boudreaux (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00An introductory presentation to familiarize participants with the Peer Mediation model and encourage participants to become Peer Mediator Coaches. This presentation is designed to present the elements of a fully-operational and sustainable ADR program to address school conflicts.
D08 – The Use, Overuse and Misuse of Caucus in Mediation – Harry Goodheart (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00Skilled mediators shape the process to be most productive for each individual case. This presentation offers mediator skills and techniques which will help you determine if, when and how to use caucus and how to promote and facilitate direct communication and negotiation, ensuring more durable resolutions and party satisfaction.
D09 – The World is Your Turnip? Gender Differences in Negotiation and Ethical Considerations for Mediators – Samantha Powers (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
$15.00 – $18.00This presentation will review research by leading scholars on gender and negotiation with a focus on implications in the mediation context. Through role-play and audience discussion, ethics, and professional responsibility will be considered.
D10 – The Nuts & Bolts of Appeals for Mediators – Wendy S. Loquasto (2.1 CME Credits Appellate)
$15.00 – $18.00Although it may seem counterintuitive to mediate an appeal because the trial court has already determined the winner and loser, appelate mediation offers the parties another chance to control their own legal destinies and reach a mutually agreeable result, perhaps in the form of a global settlement. To succeed in appellate mediation, it is imperative for the parties to understand their realistic chances of success in the appeal. This presentation will provide an understanding of the nuts and bolts of the appellate process, including the explanations of the loimied scope of appellate review and the standards of review for the different kinds of issues raised in appeals, which will aid the mediator to empower the parties to resolve the issues.
PL1 – Opening Keynote, How Apology and Forgiveness Affects Decision Making in Mediation – George Knox (2.1 CME Credits General)
$15.00 – $18.00George Knox has utilized his talents for peacemaking to build a successful practice as a mediator, arbitrator, negotiator, and mentor. Long recognized as one of Miami's most respected business and community leaders, he was named one of Miami's 100 Most Powerful People. He has been designated a Legal Legend by the 11th Judicial Circuit Historical Society.