Advanced Mediator Training (8 Hours)
May 31, 2008 and November 22, 2008
Cost: $175.00

Are you a practicing mediator? Are you ready to examine the skills and concepts that mediators use in greater depth?  If so, you may want to consider Fulcrum Institute Dispute Resolution Clinic’s advanced training workshop.  The seminar offers a highly-interactive setting for participants to discuss their experiences and to apply new concepts to their practice.  This seminar also offers participants a chance to consider new developments in the conflict resolution field and to apply them to their own cases.

Emphasis will be placed on dealing with complex cases, intense emotions, value-laden disputes, and cross-cultural conflicts. Participants and trainers will work together on cases drawn from their real life experiences.

The focus on these simulations and discussions will be on the “micro” exchanges that are central to the process of mediation.

What you will learn:
• Understanding the dimensions of conflict and of resolution. 
• Developing advanced communication skills: helping parties reestablish productive communication, reframing in depth, changing the conflict metaphor.
• Helping parties raise conflict productively and powerfully.
• Strategies for managing power issues.
• Handling values disputes, complex data, different cultural approaches to conflict.
• Analyzing the challenges of multiparty disputes. For experienced mediators only.