This session will teach mediators: (1) iPhone and iPad apps for mediators in order to run a
more efficient mediation practice; (2) mediation technology to meet your clients’ needs; (3)
understanding the technology which lawyers are trying out in mediation before they try the
case; and (4) how to maintain your mediation documents on an iPad and have participants sign
the deal digitally on your iPad.
Mindfulness in Mediation: Maintaining internal peace amidst external chaos, will teach basic principles of brain science and mindfulness to enhance self-regulation skills increasing the overall effectiveness of participants to engage in the mediation process. Attention, judgement, problem-solving, and creative thinking are necessary skills in mediation and are only fully accessible when we are regulated. As soon as emotions, such as, anger, fear, and anxiety are triggered, the nervous system shifts gears blocking access to the skills required for creating solutions. This workshop will teach participants how to identify dysregulation and enhance self-regulation through mindfulness practices.
Skilled mediators shape the process to be most productive for each individual case. This presentation offers mediator skills and techniques which will help you determine if, when and how to use caucus and how to promote and facilitate direct communication and negotiation, ensuring more durable resolutions and party satisfaction.
This presentation will review research by leading scholars on gender and negotiation with a focus on implications in the mediation context. Through role-play and audience discussion, ethics, and professional responsibility will be considered.
Because many mediators are engaged on the basis of their substantive knowledge in, or
familiarity with, a particular field and deal with the same attorneys and factual scenarios, their
mediations may become mechanical. This presentation will explore methods for conveying
interest in the process and the disputants’ well-being and enthusiasm to participants, focus on
the importance of opening statements for providing not only a procedural description but to
address anticipated questions from the ignorant disputant and hostility from the unreasonable
disputant, and ways to better engage the parties in the process through data collection.
As 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.