A Program  of the Association for Dispute Resolution – Northern California (formerly NCMA)

 

Improvisation for Mediators

 

Wednesday, April 23 , 2003, 1:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Registration starts at 12:30

Community Room, Building 300, Drake’s Landing, Greenbrae (Marin County)

 

“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”  Mark Twain

 

This highly interactive program presents methods for developing the key skills necessary for resolving conflict and breaking through impasse. Through the use of games used to train professional improvisers, you will jump into a world where playfulness and acceptance rule. These training techniques have been successfully presented to over 3000 people -- many of them attorneys and doctors who have not played in years. 

 

For those taking notes, the featured components of this training include:

 

• Learning to be present in the moment
• Practicing listening with an open mind
• Developing your ability to be open and non-judgmental
• Enhancing your creativity within the limits you are given
• Embracing impasse through the principle of heighten and explore
• Techniques for making the other person look good
• Methods for establishing trust and creating a safe space to take risks

 

Debra Gerardi, RN, MPH, JD, Improv Comedian is a mediator and principal with Health Care Mediations^™.  She has trained thousands of people eager to learn how to think like an improviser.  Debra has performed improvisational comedy at the Upfront Comedy Club, The Comedy Store, and the Empty Stage Theater in Los Angeles and the Bayfront Theater in San Francisco. 

 

Directions: (more details?: www.mediate.com/adrnc/) Going north on 101, take San Anselmo exit (going South, Sir Francis Drake-Kentfield exit) onto Sir Francis Drake Blvd. (From East Bay, take Sir Francis Drake exit after crossing Richmond Bridge, go under U.S. 101.)  Turn left at first light onto Barry Way, then immediately left at first stop sign (unmarked). Proceed through Drake’s Landing complex to “Park & Ride” lot on left.  Community Room is next to Giorgio’s Restaurant (formerly Joe LoCoco’s) across the street.   Park only in “Park & Ride” lot!

 

Please Note: This program will involve movement as well as presentation/discussion: please act and dress accordingly.

 

Light refreshments will be served. Bring your lunch at noon and meet your fellow mediators.

 

Cost: $40 for members of ADR-NC, $50 non-members, MCLE* +$20

(Add $5 if you pay at the door; registration at 12:30 p.m.) (Registration complete when payment received.)

For more information: 650-745-3842; adr@adrnc.org

*MCLE credits offered by Northern California Mediation Center, a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.

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Registration for April 23, 2003 workshop:   Mail to ADR-NC, Box 544, Corte Madera, CA 94976-0544

 

Name ________________________________________  phone __________________  email ______________________

 

Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Make checks out to “ADRNC”:  member $40 __   non-member $50 __   MCLE 1 hour $20 __

                  Hardship rate: subtract $15 (if applicable rate above would be a hardship)