A10 – Overcoming Barriers – Ginger Malcom (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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)
Price range: $15.00 through $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.