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.
B02 – Be an Ethics Millionaire! – Michael H. Lax, Christina Magee (1.5 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
B02 – Confidentiality Applied – Susan Marvin (1.5 CME Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
B02, Affect Labeling Creating Effective Empathic Connections to De Escalate Emotions by Douglas Noll (2.1 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This workshop will focus on high emotions including studies by Matthew Lieberman at UCLA for effective techniques for de-escalating high emotions. Mediators will learn about the technique of affect labeling. Mediators will have an opportunity to watch demonstrations and practice the technique.
B02, Guardianship Mediation – Kristen Mory, Christopher Shulman (1.5 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00Guardianship Mediation...Mediators will learn the unusual features present when mediating disputes involving guardianship - whether the dispute is over the initial adjudication of incompetence and appointment of a guardian or whether the dispute involves another situation after adjudication. By learning some of the aspects of how aging and mental disability can affect everyone, and applying them to the mediation process, mediators will learn how better to address issues of capacity to mediate, and the techniques to use to help the parties have an appropriate mediation experience, should you decide all present have the capacity to mediate.
B02, It’s Complicated: Mediation Appearance, Authority & Agreements – Susan Marvin, Kimberly Kosch (2.1 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This advanced ethics workshop is designed for mediators who mediate court referred cases
in more than one area of the court system. This workshop will focus on the nuances between
court procedural rules in the areas of party and participant appearance, and authority and
mediated agreements. A review of topical ethical opinions will also be included.
B02, Mediation: Around the World in 80 Ways, Lynn Cole (2.1 CME credits in Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
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.
B03 – Neutralizing the Impasse: The Mediator’s Guide to Settlement – Alan Nisberg (1.5 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
B03, Best Practices to Increase Your Market Value Avoid Grievances and Spot and Handle Diversity Dynamics that Affect Mediation Negotiations by Rodney Romano, Theodore Deckert & Richard Wennet (2.1 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00The presentation will include a handout in outline form and will begin with an audience input session to gauge specific aspects of ADR on which the participants would like to focus. Discussion will continue by covering marketing, getting cases, developing creative openings and people skills, assessing participant needs and closing techniques. Additionally, the presentation will include an interactive exploration of how cultural issues (race, religion, gender, sexual orientation) affect the decision making process during negotiation.
B03, Lost in the Translation – Eliana Poveda (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00Whether an individual is speaking or not, s/he is always communicating. In this workshop,
we will learn more about interacting with different cultures, to understand the influence of
language and culture on communication, and understanding how the rules apply when the
parties and mediator may not share the same language.
