This Week in Mediation #817

• Promises, Promises
  Joy Rosenthal
• Watch Out for the Non-Verbal Cues!
  Phyllis Pollack
• Here’s Your Theory-of-Change Book
  John Lande

• 40-hour Basic Mediation Training with Dr, Clare Fowler - Save $100
• 15-hour Divorce Mediation Training with Jim Melamed - Save $100

• Shaheen Bagh protesters mull strategy to talk to SC-appointed mediation panel
  Protest organisers held multiple meetings to decide who should represent them at talks and whether a section of the road should be cleared to prevent traffic jams.
• A rundown of common mediation mistakes
  Unrealistic expectations make for a lengthier, bumpy process.In many cases, lawyers are failing to use mediation effectively and doing a disservice to their clients.
• Mediation Spares Tenant Court Fight
  Dara Rose has a month to move out of her Mandy Management-owned apartment in Newhallville — and she is happy about that, after fighting her eviction in court.
• The U.S. Department of Justice is trying to mediate the Civil Rights Commission dispute. That effort's now in jeopardy.
  The public revelation of a confidential meeting to resolve the membership dispute on the Civil Rights Commission is unraveling a last-ditch effort to settle the conflict out of court.
• America’s Cup: A successful mediation
  Following a successful mediation, the America’s Cup Defender and Challenger of Record have come to an agreement on the Match Conditions for the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada.
• Mediation ordered in tribes’ request for compact interpretation
  OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal court has ordered mediation in the case of the Cherokee Nation and four other tribal governments in Oklahoma that requested a legal determination of whether the tribes’ gaming compacts with the state have expired.
• Presidio trains new collateral mediators
  PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – The Army’s top conflict resolution specialists descended upon the Presidio of Monterey Equal Opportunity Office to certify the post’s newest batch of collateral duty mediators last month. “We’re doing a 40 hour course in basic mediation training,” said Marc Van Nuys, the Army’s director for alternative dispute resolution out of Arlington, Virginia and head instructor for the training team. “The focus is on workplace disputes.”
• Bankruptcy court approves McClatchy’s mediation request, fueling hope of resolution
  A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday ruled that McClatchy Co. can enter mediation with its creditors in two weeks, keeping alive hopes of a timely restructuring of the nation’s second-largest local media company while giving a key government agency time to look into a transaction it has questioned.

• Equal Employment Specialist - AK
• ADR Program Manager - DC
• Case Management Supervisor - OR
• Mediation Coordinator - OR
• Fellows Program - NY
• Human Resources Specialist - WA

• February 20-21 - Berkeley CA - Negotiating Effective Environmental Agreements
• February 24-28 - Macon GA - Domestic & Family Mediation Training
• February 24-27 - Ottawa ON Canada - Conflict Management Coaching Workshop
• February 24-29 - Los Angeles CA - 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training
• February 25-March 4 - New York NY - Basic Mediation Training: Conflict Resolution Theory & Techniques
• March 4-6 - Houston TX - Advanced Mediation: Family-Divorce-Child Custody Training
• March 5-9 - Rockville MD - 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training
• March 6 - Houston TX - Domestic Violence for Advance Family Training required by TX legislation
• March 7-April 4 - San Francisco CA - Ron's Mediator Certificate Training at BASF
• March 10-13 - Fairfax VA - Mediation Skills and Process
• March 11-20 - Corte Madera CA - 40 hour Mediation Training with Steven Rosenberg
• March 12-13 - Macon GA - Domestic & Family Mediation Training
• March 16-18 - Austin Area TX - 30 Hour Advanced Mediation Training
• March 18 - New York NY - Neuroscience in Mediation and Negotiation
• March 20 - Richmond VA - Dispute Resolution Summit
• March 26-27 - Corte Madera CA Advanced Mediation Training with Steven Rosenberg
• March 27 - Fairfax VA - Orientation to the Virginia Judicial System
• March 27-28 - Houston TX - Parenting Coordination and Facilitation Training
• March 30-April 1 - Portland OR - International Ombudsman Association Annual Conference
• March 30-April 3 - Macon GA - Civil Mediation Training & Practicum

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