Community Mediation Services

Community Mediation Services of Lane County

presents its 2012

40-Hour Basic Mediation Training

When:  40 hours spread throughout 5 days, as follows:

Mar 1 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm Mar 2 from 8:30am to 5:30pm Mar 3 from 8:30am to 5:30pm

Mar 16 from 8:30am to 5:30pm  Mar 17 from 8:30am to 5:30pm

Where: Training will be held at the CMS offices and training center at 59 E. 11th Avenue, Eugene, OR

This training meets the requirements for mediators set out in Chapter 36 of the Oregon Revised Statutes and in the Oregon Administrative Rules.  Successful completion of this training will make you eligible to mediate as a volunteer at Community Mediation Services (CMS) as well as many other State-funded mediation centers in Oregon.  In addition, you will be able to apply the skills you learn to your personal relationships - improving communication between you and your spouse, partner, children, employer, colleagues and more.

Our curriculum: 

• The context and overview of the mediation process
• Communication skills for mediators including such things as active listening, reframing, validating, empathizing, clarifying, and summarizing
• Helping parties tell their stories
• Separating positions and interests
• Generating and evaluating options
• Writing agreements
• Role Plays
• Oregon's mediation statutes, rules, ethics and standards
• And much, much more!

Lead Trainer:

Chip Coker, Executive Director of CMS.  Chip was trained and certified as a mediator in 1998 by the Orange County Human Relations Commission in California and has since mediated over 50 cases.   While in law school, Chip focused on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) subjects, including negotation, arbitration and mediation - and earned a Bancroft-Whitney American Jurisprudence Award for his coursework in Advanced ADR.  Since then, Chip has been licensed to practice law in three states, as well as before the US Supreme Court, and has emphasized mediation in his law practice.  Before becoming our Executive Director, Chip was most recently an in-house attorney for Umpqua Bank. 

 Additional trainers to be announced shortly.

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