February 6, 2008

Using Venn Diagrams to Create Parenting Plans

By Linda Scher

Presentation

Ms. Scher will speak about using a Venn Diagram approach to discuss decision-making responsibilities and ground rules with parents. The Venn Diagram overlapping circles model helps parents define areas of autonomy and areas of mutual accountability for use in their parenting plans.

Presenter

Linda Scher has had a private family mediation practice in Portland since 1990. She received her J.D. from the University of Washington. She is a Practitioner Member of the Family Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution and a member and Past President of the Oregon Mediation Association. Linda frequently serves as a presenter on current family mediation issues and is a regular mediation role play coach and assistant trainer for public and private training programs in Oregon.

December 5, 2007

Promoting, Initiating, and Successfully Operating a Court Mediation Program

By Frank Motz

Presentation

This teleseminar will cover effective ways to persuade a court to begin a court mediation program in the area of family law and how to effectively operate the program. Topics covered will include: space utilization within the court for mediating, waiting area and check in, referral orders, scheduling, outcome report forms to the court, requests for continuance, follow-up mediation sessions, keeping statistics, use of surveys, dealing with lateness and no shows. Types of court mediation discussed will include: divorce (parenting and financial issues); paternity; dependency, neglect and abuse; delinquency; parent-child conflict; school truancy and disputes over wills and estates.

Presenter

Frank Motz, Former Mediation Consultant for The Supreme Court of Ohio developing pilot court mediation programs 1996-2000. Currently Chief Court Mediator for Summit County Common Pleas, General Division Court; Court Mediator for Stark County Family Court; Court Mediator for Stark County Probate Court and Senior Instructor of Family Mediation at the University of Akron.

May 26, 2005

Strategic Marketing for Mediators

By Natalie Armstrong

Presentation

This seminar provides you with the core concepts and strategic perspectives of marketing. Natalie will address the basic techniques of marketing, including segmenting and targeting customers, developing a unique brand, and making effective advertising decisions. This is an opportunity to develop knowledge about key marketing concepts and the tools required to compete in today's resolution industry. Golden Media will help participants explore important marketing theories and concepts, and apply them to practical business situations.

Presenter

Natalie Armstrong has been involved in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) industry as both a practitioner and a marketer for more than a decade. Ms. Armstrong is the Founder and Managing Director of Golden Media. She has designed and developed hundreds of campaigns for private practices, law firms educational institutions, authors, speaker, trainers, organizations and associations around the world. She has received nearly 150 hours in training in numerous national and international mediation, arbitration and communication courses. As a personal consultant to many of the premier providers in the ADR industry, Ms. Armstrong has positioned and promoted practices to see an 80% to 800% increase in business for her clients.

March 21, 2005

Transforming Conflict in Families

By Louise Phipps Senft

Presentation

Despite conflict's destabilizing impact, people have the ability to rebound and recover from its alienating effects. Specifically, people can and do make dynamic shifts along two dimensions while conflict unfolds, i.e., empowerment and recognition. Learn more about the shifts along these two dimensions and the impact on the mediation process.

Presenter

Louise Phipps Senft has been voted "Baltimore's Best" Mediator 2002 by Baltimore Magazine, and was honored as one of "Maryland's Top 100 Women" by the Daily Record in 2004 for her work in conflict resolution. Louise Phipps Senft's work is featured in the documentary "Resolutionary People," produced by Emmy Award winner, Richard Chisholm and underwritten by the Maryland Conflict and Resolution Office.

January 18, 2005

Transforming Conflict in Families

By Don Saposnek

Presenter

Donald T. Saposnek, Ph.D. a Clinical-Child Psychologist and Child Custody Mediator presents an overview of the pertinent child development research that has led to diametrically opposed conclusions as to whether very young children should have overnights with the non-custodial parent. The presenter will offer a synthesis of these opposing conclusions that integrates the research with our personal beliefs, our emotional reactions, and mitigating factors for tackling this problematic issue in everyday mediation practice.

Donald T. Saposnek, Ph.D. is author of the classic book, Mediating Child Custody Disputes, 1983; 1998 in Revised Edition,). As Director of Family Mediation Service of Santa Cruz he managed the Family Court Services for 17 years, and he has mediated over 4,000 custody disputes since 1977. He is the past editor of the Academy of Family Mediator’s Mediation News, the current editor of the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Family Mediation News, and he is also the editor of the Family Section of http://www.mediate.com/. He has published extensively on child custody and child psychology and is on the editorial boards of the Family Court Review and Conflict Resolution Quarterly journals. He is a national and international trainer of mediation and teacher of child development, a family therapist, and, for the past 26 years, has been teaching on the Psychology Faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Dr. Saposnek is the 2002 recipient of ACR’s John M. Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award, the 2002 recipient of the Monterey Bay Psychological Association’s Outstanding Psychologist Award, and the 2003 recipient of the California Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession.

June 23, 2004

Mediation: A Bed of Roses, It Ain't

By Mel Rubin

Presentation

With the reality of mediator malpractice reflected in claims made to insurance carriers, awareness and protections are essential. This talk will look at those claims already made; possible areas of future claims and some do's and don'ts for the family practitioner.

Presenter

Melvin A. Rubin has been an attorney for over thirty (30) years (specializing in family matters) and a certified family and civil mediator for sixteen (16) years. Mr. Rubin has trained over 3,000 professionals all over the world, including Brazil and the Virgin Islands. Mr. Rubin has written numerous articles and chapters including two (2) major chapters for Matthew Bender's Legal Encyclopedia, one chapter exceeding 300 pages. Mr. Rubin is president of his corporation, Mediation Services, Inc., that provides ADR assistance in the fields of training; ADR design systems, mediating and ADR consultation work in Coral Gables, Florida. He is a member of the Florida Supreme Court Committee on Mediation.

These calls are provided as a member benefit from the Family Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution. Non-members of the Association for Conflict Resolution or the Family Section are strongly encourage to join, to continue to enjoy this and future member benefits. To join visit: www.acrnet.org/membership/index.htm.