Video recording: If we miss the Trauma we miss the case. Learn to recognize and address trauma in any case, equipping yourself with the tools to better understand its impact on parties and their families. Strengthen your ability to provide meaningful support and enhance outcomes for Florida’s families with a trauma-informed approach.
Video recording: Cryptocurrencies are going mainstream and future disputes will most surely arise and encompass many issues affecting and shaping commercial relationships between multiple counterparts, a clear trend that will require highly specialized mediation that will have to be conducted and resolved with consumer protection and business compliance parameters in mind. There will be a need to solve multiple operational and transactional issues and problems, as well as potential valuation discrepancies between the contracting parties as all these quasi monies are in their infant stage of general acceptance.
Video recording: This presentation will discuss and explore personal and professional mediation ethics and how it affects a person and the workplace. This presentation will outline the similarities and the differences in ethics and will examine the workplace culture versus personal beliefs and discuss the possible conflicts that arise in an employee’s personal versus professional ethics. This presentation will conclude with examples of how personal and professional ethics may conflict and potential solutions to resolve the conflict.
Video recording: This workshop will review the 2019-2020 MEAC opinions that were published, explain them, and help mediators to understand the practical implications of them. Specifically, we will explore why the MEAC opinions were decided the way they were and how mediators can avoid the ethical problems addressed in each opinion.
Video recording: This workshop will present recent research and perspectives on intimate partner violence. It will examine the typology of intimate partner violence and the efficacy of various interventions. Subtopics will include multi-cultural perspectives, multi-modal considerations, and the impact on mediation. While intimate family violence may begin in the home, it never stays there; it affects families, communities, and the workplace. Consequently, it requires a collaborative effort to understand and analyze the causes and to create and initiate preventative measures and appropriate interventions.
Video recording: This workshop is designed to assist mediators with understanding the unique cultures and perspectives of families with special needs children, families with LGBTQIAA members, and families that are comprised of more than simply parents and their shared biological children; understanding how those differences impact the mediation process; and ethical considerations when conducting the mediations.
Video recording: This workshop will explore the applicability of the:
A. Florida General Rules of Mediation
B. Mediator Ethics and Advisory Committee (MEAC) Rulings
C. Present case law regarding incapacity and other issues to mediation in the area of estates, trusts, and guardianship litigation and pre-litigation conflicts.
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: As a mediator, you play a key part in the administration of justice by fostering joint problem solving and exploring settlement alternatives, in a presumptively confidential environment. One day, a process server knocks on the door of your home, and you are served with a subpoena. You are commanded to appear to testify in litigation and/or produce documents related to the mediation! Learn to deal with a subpoena when it is served, understand the scope of confidentiality – when it applies and when it does not – and protect yourself and the privilege of the mediation process.
Video recording: Understanding and identifying the enemy’s tactics, resources, and movements is the key to winning a war. The same is true when diffusing conflict or moving people into agreement.
Understanding the personality type and what motivates a person is the first step to successful outcomes. The more correctly you can identify the driving force behind a personality and what motivates them, the better you can anticipate the pitfalls and negative behavior patterns that are likely to emerge. This allows you to have strategies ahead of the issues and understand what that individual needs to stay on a positive track. Whether you are mediating a marital settlement agreement or crafting a parenting plan or acting as a parenting coordinator, developing a “sixth sense” for recognizing behavioral patterns is often the most
valuable tool in your toolbox.
Video recording: By 2030, 1/3 of Florida's population will be over 60 years of age. Individuals over age 60 are targets for abuse and exploitation. Exploitation causes approximately $20 billion in damages each year and often is accompanied by physical abuse or neglect. This presentation will provide mediators with information for identifying vulnerable adults in mediation; the signs of abuse, neglect, & exploitation; and the obligations of a mediator and other parties with regard to vulnerable adults in Florida.