PL2 – Ethics Plenary: Amendments to the Rules for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators – Thomas A. David (1.2 CME Ethics)
$5.00
Video recording: This year’s ethics plenary will be an overview of amendments to the Rules for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators that were implemented effective on January 1, 2025.
The presentation will focus on amendments that implement new standards of professional conduct (e.g., Conflicts of Interest), codify and clarify practices addressed in selected MEAC opinions (e.g., Caucus, Staff Confidentiality, Reporting Outcome, and Social Networking), and clarify existing rule language (e.g., Orientation Session, and Adjournment or Termination). The presentation will also discuss amendments to the qualifications for mediator certification, especially the summary process for county court mediator certification.
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PL2 – Plenary Session: The Mediator’s Dilemma: Joint Session, or No Joint Session – George Knox (1.2 CME Credits General)
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Video recording: This session will explore the opportunities and challenges of including joint sessions in the mediation protocol. The discussion will feature candid and provocative arguments about whether the mediator can enhance the likelihood of agreement by the creative use of all items in the facilitation toolbox. The discussion will include suggestions about how to effectively blend joint sessions and caucuses into a combination of formats that expand the universe of options for the mediator, and minimize the discomfort of the parties.
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PL2 – Plenary Session: XYZ: Communicating Across Generations at Mediation – Kristen Foltz and James Ratclif (1.2 CME Credits Cultural Diversity)
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Video recording: This plenary will explore communication barriers and issues relating to generational differences in the mediation process. Special attention will be given to how to improve communication in mediation to ensure all participants understand and feel included in the process regardless of age. Theories regarding communication styles and conflict will be addressed followed by a brainstorming session on best practices to avoid communication pitfalls during the process. This will include a review of relevant mediation rules, statutes, and MEAC opinions.
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PL3 – Plenary Session: Excellence in Ethics: Mediating Online with Integrity – Christy Foley (1.2 CME Credits Ethics)
$5.00
Video recording: This session will discuss how the ethical rules and MEAC opinions apply to e-mediations so that mediators know how to best comply with the rules when conducting mediations through virtual conferencing platforms. Specifically, the session will address how to preserve confidentiality, address party attendance, and sign settlement agreements electronically. The session will also discuss e-mediation etiquette that can improve your virtual mediation conference and make you look like a skilled e-mediator.
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PL3 – Plenary Session: Mediator Ethics & Vulnerable Adult Abuse: Understanding Our Responsibilities – Susan Marvin and a panel of distinguished experts (1.2 CME Credits Ethics and Interpersonal Violence)
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Video recording: Join moderator Susan Marvin and a panel of distinguished experts as they delve into the nuances of mediator ethical responsibilities and interpersonal violence issues encompassing one of Florida’s most susceptible populations, vulnerable adults. Panelists working in adult abuse investigations, the judiciary, and mediation fields will discuss topics addressing basic legal frameworks for reporting
abuse, recognizing capacity and exploitation in proceedings, and statutory and ethical obligations for certified mediators.
Panelists include the Honorable Michelle Morley, Judge; Elizabeth Alacci, APS Program Specialist, Department of Children and Families and Juan Collins, Senior Attorney, Dispute Resolution Center
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PL4 – Closing Plenary Session – The Human Touch in ODR – Noam Ebner (1.2 CME Credits General)
$5.00
Video recording: Technology has been available to support conducting mediation online for the past two decades. However, in practice, most mediators avoided conducting processes online. One oft-voiced concern was the loss of the “human touch,” upon which mediation relies, in the online environment. The pandemic era generated an unprecedented shift in the field of mediation, with most practitioners simultaneously experimenting with a new mode of process conduct. In shifting their practices online, many discovered that their initial and continuing experiences with online mediation and the human touch did not live up to their trepidation. This remarkable natural experiment offers the field a unique opportunity. Now that preconceptions are in the rearview mirror, the time is ripe for deep exploration into the human touch in mediation, its specific functions in the process, and pathways for mindfully bring it to bear in online mediation processes. Technology presents challenges as well as opportunities to a mediator’s capacity for generating trust, building rapport, and expressing empathy, to note but a few human-touch domains. As our experience with online processes grows, what might we learn about enhancing our abilities in those domains? Along the way, there is much to learn about working with the human touch in our in-presence processes as well.
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PL4 – Closing Plenary: Reimagining Mediation in the 21st Century – Alyson Carrel (1.2 CME Credits General)
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Video recording: What do you want the world to look like? If you could do this all over again, is there anything you would/could have done differently? We ask our parties these questions all the time, but
how often do we ask these questions to ourselves? What would we discover if we did? As much as mediation successfully saves time, saves money, lifts up voices, and repairs relationships, we face certain
challenges and limitations. Research demonstrates that the general public still is not familiar with mediation, that Mediators still do not often reflect the community in which they serve, and some notable
parties, such as Harvey Weinstein, have abused confidential processes and enacting NDAs to cover up rampant sexual harassment. It is in this context that we need to ask ourselves how we might do better and enhance the mediation and settlement process in the 21st-Century.
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