Description:
This
in-depth 40-hour training is designed to provide individuals with
the critical skills and knowledge necessary to begin mediating.
Exercises, lectures, role-play sessions, and videos provide participants
with the conceptual framework and key techniques to effectively
conduct the seven-stage mediation process. During role-play sessions
CDR provides one trainer for every four trainees so that each
participant will have the opportunity to mediate several disputes
and receive specific feedback and assistance from a skilled and
experienced mediation trainer.
This
one-week training program packages CDR’s basic mediation
training with several advanced mediation trainings to offer the
beginning mediator a comprehensive training experience.
Courses included are Negotiation: The Building Block of Dispute
Resolution; Basic Mediation Training: 2-day skills course;
Becoming a More Effective Mediator: Advanced Mediation Skills
including Breaking Impasse, Caucusing and Pre-Mediation Assessment;
The Business of Mediation: Practice Strategies, Forms and
Networking Opportunities; and Mediation Ethics, Professionalism
and Substance Abuse Education.
Audience:
Anyone
who wants to develop a comprehensive set of mediation skills.
Participants typically include human resource managers, attorneys,
judges, business leaders, healthcare professionals, supervisors,
managers, union leaders, EEO officers, government employees, clergy,
social service personnel, teachers, and others.
Competencies Learned:
- Understanding of dispute resolution continuum
- Ability to conduct seven-stage mediation process
- Knowledge of special issues that arise in mediation
- Ability to identify, frame, and prioritize the issues to
be mediated
- Ability to distinguish between presenting and underlying
issues
- Understanding of obstacles to generating alternatives
- Ability to use multiple methods of generating alternatives
- Ability to assist the parties in selecting clear and practical
solutions
- Understanding of why, how, and when to use caucusing
- Ability to identify own negotiation style and preferred strategy
- Ability to identify various negotiation
strategies and negotiate more effectively
- Understanding of "strategic choice" negotiation
- Ability to assess
and address issues of power in negotiations
- Knowledge and application
of The Lawyer's Creed and The Lawyer's Aspirational
Values
- Knowledge and understanding of existing mediator standards
of ethics and conduct
- Knowledge and understanding
of the Ohio Uniform Mediation Act
- Knowledge of existing Ohio laws and court rules related to
mediation
- Ability to recognize and analyze mediation situations that
raise ethical considerations
- Knowledge of substance
abuse causes, prevention, detection, and treatment alternatives
Lead Faculty:
Scot Dewhirst, Co-Director,
Center for Dispute Resolution
Roberta Mitchell, Co-Director, Center for Dispute Resolution
Terry Wheeler, Co-Director, Center for Dispute Resolution
