All About Mediation Training

Course Title: Business and Workplace Mediation Training Workshop

Course Description (according to the course provider)

This training is designed to provide both practical skills and a clear framework to help you resolve business and employment disputes. Our past participants tell us that this is some of the best professional training they have ever received.

When and Where

July 31-August 2, 2009 - Bethesda, Maryland

Course Title: Deal Mediation: Facilitating Complex Business Disputes with Doug Noll and Lee Jay Berman

Course Description (according to the course provider)

Deal Mediation: Facilitating Complex Business Deals shows you how to apply your mediation skills to mediating the complex business deals and non-litigated business disputes.

You will learn how this style of mediation is different from mediating litigated cases, including how to conduct critical pre-work and diagnostic services, secrets of convening when it’s purely voluntary, how to decide who should attend, structuring the process, creating the agenda, facilitating the communication, using a lot of joint session and interest-based negotiation processes, working on agreements, and how to market, price, bid, and bill for these services.

Simulations include mediating complex, non-litigated business disputes, including separation and non-separation scenarios, conducting strategic facilitations between potential corporate partners, and facilitating pre-dispute complex construction “partnering” sessions.

Who should attend: Mediators, transactional and litigation attorneys, corporate counsel, business affairs directors, senior management teams, and human resources VP’s.

When and Where

October 22-24, 2009 - Los Angeles, California

Course Title: Mediating and Negotiating Commercial Cases with Lee Jay Berman

Course Description (according to the course provider)

This course is a practical training course. While covering theory to give you a framework and the intellectual understanding of negotiation and mediation, this course is about learning. Our focus is on your doing, practicing and experimenting with negotiating and mediating. There is much to teach about mediation and negotiation, but one reason mediators fail is because they understand the theory, but cannot execute it when under the gun. In this course, you will mediate and negotiate your way into understanding.

In this course you will learn how to be a complete mediator. Some training programs specialize in teaching a particular method, theory or approach. This course will give you hands-on experience with all of the different styles and approaches that complete mediators call upon. Advocates and party representatives will learn how well-equipped mediators think and how to be most effective in negotiating their own cases.

You will also learn how to negotiate better settlements. Because negotiation is the core component of the mediation process, this course emphasizes negotiation skills, strategies and techniques that you and those around you use to impact others’ ability to see and understand.

When and Where

July 15-19, 2009 - Los Angeles, California
November 11-15, 2009 - Los Angeles, California

Course Title: Mediating Mortgage Foreclosures with Mel Rubin

Course Description (according to the course provider)

As mortgage foreclosures avalanche in every state, they provide immediate opportunity for mediators to add value. Mortgage foreclosure mediations are complicated and new laws are being passed, allowing in many cases the entire restructuring of the original mortgage. Mediators must learn the specific tools necessary to work with the dynamics between homeowners who are distraught over their biggest asset’s pending loss and lenders who prefer not to own homes.

This course gives mediators the specific training necessary to work in the private sector as well as a court and governmental programs established to mediate these cases. The course will also cover the various mediation programs and panels being adopted in states throughout the U.S. Considerable time will also be spent on the business of marketing this emerging practice area.

Mr. Rubin is presently assisting in designing an ADR program for mortgage foreclosures in Florida, a state which has one of the highest incidences of mortgage foreclosures and is on the leading edge in developing a statewide mediation program, to deal with this wide spread problem

When and Where

July 10-11, 2009 - Los Angeles, California

Course Title: Post-Disaster Mediation Training with Mel Rubin

Course Description (according to the course provider)

From earthquakes to fires to landslides to floods, disasters are increasingly becoming part of the human experience. They are also creating an immediate and urgent demand for mediation to relieve pressure on the court system, and provide the victims with immediate financial assistance. Mediating disasters requires specific training in mediating without legal representation, mediating when there are significant imbalances of power, during traumatically emotional events, and many more unique situations associated with disaster mediations.

Mel Rubin is uniquely qualified in disaster mediation with extensive experience in designing the hurricane programs in Florida since 1992 as well as writing and lecturing on disaster mediation for the past 15 years.

This interactive course will train mediators in the skills necessary to mediate disaster cases utilizing real life scenarios as simulation exercises. It will also cover the system design of a typical post-catastrophe mediation program, what roles are available for mediators, and how mediators can qualify for such rosters.

When and Where

July 9-10, 2009 - Los Angeles, California