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.
B08 – Timeless Truths Getting to Yes, Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In – Anne Langley and John McCorvey (1.5 CME General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
B08, Cultural Competence in Foreclosure Mediation, Nadine Pierre-Louis (2.1 CME credits in Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
B08, Frontiers in Mediation in a Globalized World by Lynn Cole (2.1 CME credits in Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This workshop will focus on the rapid growth of mediation globally resulting from the intersection of the Rule of Law with shrinking world economies.
B08, Mediation on Appeal: The Same, or Different? – Teresa Musetto (1.5 CME Credits Appelate)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00A combined lecture and facilitated discussion using fictional case studies illustrating factors that are either unique or shared in trial and appellate mediation.
B08, Taking Myself and My Mediation Process to the Next Level – Shawn Zimmerman (2.1 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00Is there such a thing as a collaborative type of person? What personal development empowers
mediation professionals to cooperate and communicate effectively in the process? If you
are like us, you appreciate the skills it takes to scaffold the highest levels of cooperation,
communication, agreement, and positive results possible, for people that can no longer
communicate at even base levels. This training will help you personally identify your growing
edge to being even more effective in the process of mediation, and also in cooperating and
communicating at the highest levels in your own life.
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.
B09, How a Mediator Can Use the Attorneys for the Parties to Facilitate a Settlement by Marc Sinensky (2.1 CME Credits General)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This presentation focuses on the mediator educating the parties’ attorneys about their role in preparing for and participating in a mediation as many advocates view the mediation process as merely a continuation of the litigation process. This workshop will show the mediator how to help the advocate recognize they need to play a different role to help facilitate a settlement.
B09, The Lean Arbitration: Providing a Truly Efficient and Effective Process for Parties – Rebecca Storrow, Harold Coleman (Non CME)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00The basic principles of Lean are to provide a customer-centric approach to eliminating wasteful practices and to deliver greater value to the user or customer through more a more efficient and effective process. Given the increasing cost associated with arbitration, arbitrators can benefit greatly from applying this scientific approach to “cutting the fat”, reducing wastes such as delay, overproduction, and inefficient exchange of information. In this session, we will modify and apply Lean’s practical organizational tools, to improve arbitration practices that are are sometimes bloated and slow.
B1 – A Demographic Snapshot of Child Abuse Cases – Salvatore Gardino (1.5 CME Credits Interpersonal Violence)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00