C5: Pre-Conference Powerfully, Peacefully, Prepare Parties – Kelly McGrath (1.2 CME General)
$5.00
Video recording: One of the most successful strategies a mediator can implement is taking the time to pre-conference with each party prior to bringing the parties together for mediation. This session not only gives the mediator valuable information about the tender spots and areas of agreement or concern, but allows the mediator to encourage and facilitate the resolution by reducing the flight, fight, or freeze trauma response, aligning values with action, and seeing the vision each party has of their life after the resolution. Mediation preparation creates powerful and peaceful resolutions.
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C6 – Getting to Yes: Using Goal- Oriented Interest-Based Thinking – Erin Duncan, Lauren Ilvento (1.2 CME General)
$5.00
Video recording: While parties often treat a case as a “zero-sum” game, this presentation will assist mediators in helping parties focus on their goals and their future to move beyond “zero-sum” thinking
and towards more creative solutions.
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C6: Mastering Mediations: Experts Discuss – Christina Magee, Michelle Jernigan and Shari Elessar (1.2 CME General)
$5.00
Video recording: In this panel, a facilitator and two experienced mediators take on questions submitted in advance about difficult situations that arise in mediations and ways to address these situations while still moving forward to resolution. In addition to the questions submitted in advance, the panelists will discuss topics related to virtual vs. in-person mediations such as neutrality concerns; confidentiality issues related to video-conferencing mediations; strategies to begin mediations; favorite momentum generators and successful ways to bring people together and achieve resolution.
This session will be repeated during Workshop Series D.
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C7 – Mediating Pro Se Family Law Matters – Deborah Beylus (1.2 CME General)
$5.00
Video recording: From initial engagement until the conclusion of mediation, this presentation will explore the nuts and bolts unique to working with pro se couples for dissolution of marriage cases, paternity actions, and post judgment modifications. Three types of processes will be discussed: pre-suit mediation; court-ordered mediation; and court-appointed mediation.
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C7: What Every Mediator Needs to Know About Credit and Divorce – Deborah Beylus (1.2 CME Family)
$5.00
Video recording: Most divorcing couples believe that a divorce decree can relieve a spouse of a joint financial obligation. Court orders and divorce decrees can't save divorcing couples from financial peril if one or both spouses act irresponsibly. People have a naive expectation toward court orders, like they're magic. Court orders are not magic. People have to learn to take responsibility for their own finances and their own lives.
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D01 – The Rules for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators – David Wolfson (1.2 CME Credits Ethics)
$5.00
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.
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D02 – Walking the Tight Rope in Mediation: The Art of Balancing Evaluation Techniques – Harold Coleman Jr, Alexia Georgakopoulos, Rebecca Storrow (1.2 CME Credits Ethics)
$5.00
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.
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D03 – The Collaborative Process: What You Need to Know About It – Robert Merlin (1.2 CME Credits Family)
$5.00
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.
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D04 – Mathematics of Zero-Sum Mediation – Howard Marsee (1.2 CME Credits General)
$5.00
Video recording: Zero-sum negotiations deal largely, though not exclusively, with dollars and numbers. Usually, the parties are looking for an acceptable number between two extremes. Mathematics, thoroughly understood and properly utilized, can become a valuable tool in the process.
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D05 – Changing Schools in Florida through the TP2K Movement – Isis Clemente (1.2 CME Credits General)
$5.00
Video recording: As mediators, we believe that problems can be solved by looking for alternatives. I first became aware of this perspective in my late 30’s as an adult. But… What If… we were to train children, as young as Kindergarten, as well as teachers, counselors, administrators and parents to filter confrontations through the: “What is the alternative?” lens. Let’s erase shouting, chastising and/or using violence. Join us in a movement that will change schools in Florida through the series named: “Teach Peace to Kids” aka (TP2K).
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D06 – Decision Fatigue: Hidden Factors that Impede Progress – Christine Hammond (1.2 CME Credits General)
$5.00
Video recording: Have you ever wondered about the hazy, glassy-eyed, indecisive appearance during collaboration? It could be decision exhaustion which happens to clients and professionals alike. This hidden factor drags out the process unnecessarily, triggers past abusive behavior, causes survival mode to kick in, and alienates members of the team. Learn how to identify past occurrences, modify current circumstances to minimize the impact, and prevent it in the future.
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D07 – The Nuts and Bolts of Zoom – Ana Cristina Maldonado (1.2 CME Credits General)
$5.00
Video recording: This training for mediators is on the topic of ZOOM account setup, meeting creation and scheduling, technology issue troubleshooting, ZOOM tools, and meeting safety.
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