Advanced Trainings and Workshops

Steve is widely know for his thorough, effective and fun mediator trainings. 

His Basic 40 Hour Divorce and Custody Mediation Training is approved by the national Association for Conflict Resolution and is taken by both trained mediators who want to develop the special skills required for family and divorce mediation as well as by those taking their first steps into the field of mediation. In addition,

Steve provides general mediation training as well as workshops and seminars in more specialized and advanced topics

• Transformative Mediation: Less Stress, More Success
• Beginning and Operating a Successful Mediation Practice
• Issues and Ethics of Mediation
• Domestic Violence and Mediation
• Iowa Law for Non-Lawyer Family Mediators.

Steve’s workshops on various mediation related subjects are treated as continuing legal education credits by Iowa lawyers, through such organizations as the Iowa Trial Lawyers, the Iowa State Bar Association and the Sixth Judicial District Family Mediation Program as well as for continuing education units in other professions.

Here is what participants say in their evaluation of Steve’s workshops and trainings:

• "We have been to several trainings in the last year (not all mediation) but I really feel that this was the best four hours I have spent in training in a long time."
• "I am very inspired to implement the new things I have learned from you and to make this a better process for us.” 
• "Very enlightening, stimulating and informative. Thanks for this most beneficial training.” 
• “I truly appreciated Steve’s expertise, humor, intelligence and, in particular, his interest in our ideas.” 
• “Excellent workshop, which introduced Transformative Mediation. Appreciated congruity between teaching style and philosophy of mediation.” 
• “I would do another forty hour training like this if the topic and the presenter were as enlightening and interesting.” 
• “Just wanted to thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us yesterday. I really learned a great deal from you."