B7 – Train the Trainer – Blan L. Teagle (1.5 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00How does teaching adults differ from teaching children? What are the fundamentals of adult learning and how can they be applied effectively in a mediation training venue? Using the work of educational theorist David Kolb, and his experiential learning model employing the Learning Styles inventory, these questions and more will be explored during this interactive Train the Trainer session on the art and science of empowering adult learners through discussion leadership and how that helps to provide education for judgment.
C1 – Family Violence: New Perspectives and Approaches – Judith McKay (1.5 CME Credits Interpersonal Violence)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
C2 – Leveraging the Best in Multiple Intelligence and Appreciative Inquiry Discoveries with Diverse Parties In Mediation – Harold Coleman, Alexia Georgakopoulos and Rebecca Storrow (1.5 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00In this interactive workshop, we will explore how the most effective mediators build their multiple intelligence quotient. Research shows that the way a mediator views the parties impacts the mediator’s process of mediation. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences states that experience, culture, and other factors support many different ways to learn and process information, but that the factors are independent of each other, leading to multiple "intelligences." Mediators who possess multiple intelligences can bring added value to the process of mediating diverse parties.
C3 – Mediation and the Combat Veteran – Carol Williams and Richard Williams (1.5 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00Veterans are returning home with multiple disorders that are interfering with their abilities to function in a "normal" way. This workshop will provide and discuss statistical data on the progress of veterans. Group exercises on multiple disorders will aid in defining the roles a mediator may play in assisting the veteran.
C4 – Mediator Ethics, A Prequel – Kimberly Kosch (1.5 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This workshop is designed to provide a structural analysis of the statutes, procedural rules and standards of conduct as they bind (or don’t) to the various forms of mediation conducted with the halls of justice. This workshop will benefit all mediators but especially those who practice across jurisdictions or who practice in and outside of the court system.
C5 – Train the Trainer – Techniques for Teaching Mediation – Eric Dunlap (1.5 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00The workshop will explore various methods and techniques for teaching mediation certification training courses and continuing mediator education courses.
D1 – A Mediator’s Bedside Manner & A Neutral’s Sacred Oath – Tye Bourdony (1.5 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00As a mediator, the kind of compassion and empathy we show our clients can mean the difference between agreement, non-agreement and a really good agreement when we have a good bedside manner. If we forget to remain neutral and impartial, even the most amazing bedside manner does not result in a great agreement.
D2 – Comparative Appellate Mediation Practices – Nicholas Shannin (1.5 CME Credits Appellate)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This workshop will review differences among the approaches to mediation of the five District Courts of Appeal and the successfulness of the change to rule 9.700, Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure, in encouraging the use of mediation for appeals beyond the Fifth DCA. It will also discuss the rule amendments that became effective in 2015. Lastly, a comparison of the Federal Appellate Mediation model with the Florida rule will teach appellate mediators about the very different Federal mediation method.
D4 – Ethics and Mediator Advertising – Susan Marvin (1.5 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This interactive workshop will provide information regarding the requirements for mediator advertising in the Florida Rules for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators and Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee Opinions. Attendees will discuss advertising scenarios in small groups.
D6 – How to Be a More Effective Facilitator in the Mediation Process – Maria C. Gonzalez and Douglas Greenbaum (1.5 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This interactive presentation will focus on issues dealing with cultural diversity, religious diversity, appropriate nomenclature, verbal and body language, and self-awareness of what can be perceived as bias. Mediators will learn how to put all participants at ease in the mediation process and help bring down barriers and impediments to a successful mediation.
D7 – Mediating Cultural Differences – Jeanne Maes and Robert (Bob) Shearer (1.5 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00Dealing effectively with diverse constituencies is a key factor in successfully resolving disputes. The foundation for effectiveness begins with defining “diversity” and then discovering ways to connect with the parties. This is an interactive session that focuses on discovering the pictures in the parties' heads, learning to speak a “universal language,” and identifying ways to help the parties communicate well.
D8 – The Power of a Study Circle in Creating Civil Discourse and Dialogue on College Campuses, PART 1 Deri Ronis (1.5 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This groundbreaking seminar has been used at schools and college campuses to create community around many sensitive issues effecting students on all campuses, including online bullying, sexting, and abusive language resulting in suicides and low self esteem. In this session, you will learn the skills to be a trainer and facilitator of the Study Circle model.