D03 – Effective Strategies for Critiquing and Mentoring Mediators – Gregory Firestone (1.5 CME Credits Train the Trainer)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
While Rule for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators 10.690 (b) provides that "An experienced mediator should cooperate in training new mediators, including serving as a mentor," little training is provided on how to be an effective mentor or roleplay critiquer. This workshop will present techniques for enhancing mediator performance by promoting reflective inquiry, brain storming, analysis and implementation. Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to discuss difficult cases and learn effective mentoring techniques.
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D04 – Guardianship Mediation – Sara Caldwell (1.5 CME Credits Circuit)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
With the ever increasing number of seniors moving to Florida, the need for Elder Law Mediators is also increasing. Resolving guardianship contests is particularly important due to the dependence of the vulnerable wards. Mediators can play an important role in diffusing family bitterness to bring the parties together in deciding on the proper plans for care of the ward and for the wise investment of the ward's funds.
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D05 – Mediating the Mind: Understanding How Mental Health Affects Mediation – Dr. Rick Adams (1.5 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
This much needed seminar presentation focuses on identifying and recognizing mental health behaviors that develop and often manifest during the mediation process. Participants will be made aware of the psychological factors that can negatively affect or hinder successful mediation. This seminar will discuss and explore both the psychoanalytic and cognitive approaches, which can be utilized to deal with and understand the mental and emotional barriers that often derail and obstruct mediation.
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D06 – Neutrality Beyond Bias: Implicit Bias in Mediation – Megan Moshell Santiago, Tiffany Ruggiero (1.5 CME Credits Cultural Diversity)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
This workshop will examine implicit bias with a look at applicable statistical and real life examples found in your everyday mediation. Participants will explore the key elements in mediation neutrality while examining their own implicit biases. Together, they will achieve growing awareness, exploring cognitive resources and exposing and enhancing practice through discussion and self-reflection.
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D07 – Pulling Parenting Plans, Support Worksheets, Agreements and Other’s Out of the Hat – Jeffrey Kash, Toni O’Brien (1.5 CME Credits Family)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
This workshop is designed to assist the mediator facing sessions replete with roadblocks to forward progress and constraints on time. Attendees will gain some tools for navigating through the challenges and mediating as efficiently as possible, while ensuring fairness and preserving the parties' right of self-determination. Although this workshop will be presented through the lens of a family mediation, the challenges explored and methods shared are universal to all mediators.
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D08 – Respect Your Elders: Families, Elders, Abuse, Exploitation, and Eldercaring Coordination – Karen Campbell, Linda Fieldstone, Kim Torres (1.5 CME Credits Interpersonal Violence)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
As families age, years of anger and disappointment may surface in harmful ways against aging adults. It is crucial that we recognize warning signs of elder abuse and exploitation. Using real-life scenarios, attendees will identify issues elders face and review strategies to protect them. Eldercaring Coordination will be highlighted as a way to preserve the elders' autonomy, dignity, and voice in high-conflict situations. Participants will earn IPV credits.
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D09 – Straight from the Source: Mediation Do’s and Don’ts…from the Party’s and Litigator’s Perspectives! – Harold Coleman, Jr., Dr. Alexia Georgakopoulos, Rebecca Storrow (1.5 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
A facilitated panel of AAA-ICDR-AAAMediation.org executives, practitioners, and academics discuss take-aways from the ABA Dispute Resolution Section's 2017 study, AAA's 2018 national survey of advocates, and other research in mediation. Ethical implications of parties' preferred techniques will be considered in terms of the Florida Rules for Certified Mediators, Chapter 44, and MEAC Opinions. Mediators shouldn't miss this interactive opportunity to learn how to ethically navigate parties' preferences at mediation!
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PL1 – Opening Plenary & Keynote: What We Do and Don’t Know About Court-Connected Mediation – Nancy Welsh (2.1 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
Mediation proponents and courts describe mediation as both an integral part of litigation and a process in which mediators help parties communicate to come to their own customized resolution. However, most courts do not know how many cases they refer to mediation and with what effects, and recent mediator surveys suggest increased use of caucus and reduced direct party communication. What are the effects on parties--and on the courts--when parties' experience in mediation fails to match what they understood (and what the court said) the process would be? And how should mediators respond?
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PL2 – Cybersecurity for Mediators – Christopher Hopkins (1.5 CME Credits Interpersonal Violence)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
Cybersecurity is a critical concept for mediators because the risk of data breach exists for litigants and parties as well as for the mediator's own business. This session will introduce real-life examples of how companies are hacked, the nature of these disputes from the intrusion event itself and into litigation, and will provide some hands-on examples of how mediators can protect themselves and their practice.
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PL3 – Ethics Plenary: Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Principles – Christopher Hopkins, Susan Marvin, Christy Foley, Michael A. Carter, Gregory Knight (1.5 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
This year’s Ethics Plenary: ODR Principles will focus on methods of online dispute resolution (ODR) being used in court systems and private providers across the United States. The plenary will feature a demonstration of a mediation conducted on live video conferencing and a panel discussion of mediator ethical issues arising from the use of ODR.
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