
Rabbi Shoshana Susan Dworsky


Dworsky Mediation
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St. Paul, MN 55116
USA
651-485-1243

Description of Practice
Shosh Dworsky is an ordained rabbi, and offers mediation to clients from diverse backgrounds and walks of life, of any and all faiths or of no faith at all. She works with couples (including same-sex), family members, professional associates or friends, and can serve as a parenting consultant or expediter.
Shosh provides a safe, neutral space in which to explore a conflict and resolve it. As mediator she acts as neither advocate nor judge, allowing the parties to set their own agenda, providing the kind of time for conversation that clients are unlikely to find in a courtroom or law office. Clients will find her to be respectful, fair, attentive, accepting, non-judgmental and broad-minded. The title ‘rabbi’ indicates not that she is driven by doctrine, but that she is an experienced, thoughtful and caring person committed to helping people navigate pain and conflict and live with dignity.
Professional Background
Shosh has been on the roster of Qualified Neutrals under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice since 2007. She is a regular volunteer mediator for the Dispute Resolution Center, Ramsey County, and currently sits on their Board of Directos. She has mediated countless cases in Housing and Conciliation Courts. In private practice she sees couples and families, as well as workplace colleagues, neighbors or friends who are finding conversation about a conflict challenging, and could use some support.
Experience
Degrees
Masters and Ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Training
Dates | Trainer(s) | Title |
2007 | Helen Preddy, U.S. Arbitration & Mediation of Minnesota | Level I Mediator Training |
2007 | Helen Preddy, U.S. Arbitration & Mediation of Minnesota | Family Law Mediation and Domestic Abuse Issues |
2008-9 | Dan Simon, Twin Cities Mediation | Transformative Mediation |
2010 | Ellen Abbott and Beth Harrington, Mediation Center for Dispute Resolution in affiliation with Hamline Universtiy Law and Graduate Schools | Parenting Time Expediting Training |
2017 | Co-trainer w/Dan Simon, Simon Mediation |
Approach
“Mediation as I practice it is an approach to dispute resolution that brings parties together for conversation and affords them the opportunity to determine for themselves how best to deal with the issues they bring to this conversation. The role of mediator as I see it is not to give advice, but to remain neutral and non-judgmental while helping to ensure that each person’s thoughts, ideas, feelings or needs get expressed. Solutions people arrive at through the mediation process may include decisions to seek legal, financial, therapeutic, or other kinds of assistance outside of our mediation. In mediation they have the opportunity to talk, listen, and think in a safe setting as they work to discern what they themselves need.”
Fees
Areas of Practice
- Adoption
- Adult Family
- Civil (general)
- Community
- Congregational
- Cross Cultural
- Divorce (all issues)
- Divorce (parenting)
- Education
- Elder
- Family
- General
- Landlord - Tenant
- LGBTQ
- Marital Mediation
- Neighbor to Neighbor
- Non Profits
- Online Civil
- Online Family/Divorce
- Online Mediation
- Online Workplace
- Pet Mediation
- Police
- Prenuptial
- Sexual Harrassment
- Small Claims
- Victim - Offender
Professional Services
- Mediator
- Parenting Coordinator
- Advanced Mediation Trainer
- Counselor
- Mediation Trainer
- Facilitator