Video recording: Mediators are often like detectives. They develop agendas and help their parties discover solutions to problems. This workshop will focus on strategies to unearth the agenda of the parties and cultivate possible solutions which could lead to an outgrowth of positive outcomes.
Video recording: Why is appellate mediation different - what do you need to know to be an effective appellate mediator and gain the confidence of appellate practitioners to trust you with the appellate mediation needs?
Video recording: A series of case simulations will help participants uncover the opportunities and pitfalls in supporting a party’s evaluation of their position. Strategic techniques should yield to the ethical, sociopsychological dimensions, and cultural frames of problem solving. We will challenge the rational-strategic approach to decision making that insists parties will always choose the “better” option or correctly assess risk and reward.
Video recording: Florida’s older population is on track to double between 2010 and 2040. Learn more about the unique characteristics of this population and how to best meet their dispute resolution needs via elder mediation and eldercaring coordination. Through discussion and interactive activities, we will address the ethical dilemmas we face and why working with older adults and their families requires specialized skills and training.
Video recording: This workshop will address how trauma can present in the dispute resolution process, something that is not regularly considered. When participants have experienced trauma, they may be appear to be resistant or angry, but a mediator who understands trauma can not only work past those feelings, but avoid re-traumatization during the dispute resolution process. This workshop will also benefit mediators who may unknowingly take-on some of this outside trauma or become overwhelmed in the process of trying to help others who have experienced trauma.
Video recording: A proactive training, with a no-holds-barred passion, designed to warn, protect, and equip workshop participants with the necessary tools needed to assess and positively check and consider the “diversity of thought” in a climate frequently found within the Church/Religious arena, where Conviction and Belief often opposes Changing Laws of Inclusion, while providing workshop participants with strategies to possibly avoid the pitfalls now found in an increasingly litigious society.
Video recording: This presentation focuses on elements of personal communication; effective mediation negotiation skills including focusing on interests, not positions, problem analysis, preparation, the importance of validating emotions, and creating a collaborative environment; tools of active listening skills; verbal and nonverbal communication; communication blockers; being effective versus being right; and ethics.
Video recording:
• Identify the role of financial affidavits in mediation.
• Identify the components of the financial affidavit.
• Calculating the types and amount of income on the financial affidavit used for calculating child support.
• Determine monthly financial net surplus or deficit and analyze alimony options.
• Review the client’s assets and debts and valuations used to identify marital assets, values for equitable distribution.
• Identify the relationship between the expenses and debt.
Video recording: What is a receiver? When should you seek an appointment of one? What is FCRERA (Florida Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act)? An overview on receiverships, including the roles & types of receiverships, ethical considerations, qualifications of a receiver, and legal & equitable authority for the appointment of a receiver, will be discussed. Procedural aspects, pre-appointment issues,
engagement of professionals, locating of assets, the receiver’s neutrality, funding of the estate, and how the appointment of a receiver can alter the dynamic of the underlying dispute, will also be discussed.
Video recording: The Rules for Certified and Court Appointed Mediators will be discussed in depth. Examples for their application will be given along with MEAC interpreting them. Audience participation will be requested for further examples of how the rules have been applied.
Video recording: A series of case simulations will help participants uncover the opportunities and pitfalls in supporting a party’s evaluation of their position. Strategic techniques should yield to the ethical, sociopsychological dimensions, and cultural frames of problem solving. We will challenge the rational-strategic approach to decision making that insists parties will always choose the “better” option or correctly assess risk and reward.
Video recording: More and more family attorneys are becoming trained in the Collaborative Process. This workshop will give all family attorneys an opportunity to learn what they need to know about the
basics of the Collaborative Process. It will give trained Collaborative attorneys an opportunity to dig deeper into the Collaborative Process, especially the ethical rules that apply to all attorneys and specifically, Collaborative attorneys.