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Registration Now Open!
Advanced Mediation Training Program
2014 - 2015
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Are you interested in developing your conflict resolution skills as a mediator and earning MCLE approved Continued Education Credits?
SEEDS presents a Bay Area wide continuing education series designed to support those involved in managing conflict to advance their knowledge and capabilities with like minded professionals.
Choose from 12 class topics: 3 MCLE credits are available for most classes, certificates are available for students who complete 6 classes or more. Sponsored by JAMS Foundation.
Dates: Individual Classes Meet on the Third Thursday of Each Month From June 19, 2014 - May 21, 2015
Time: 5:30 - 8:40 PM
Location: Oakland Law Library 125 12th St., Oakland, CA 94607
Course Topics and Dates (see descriptions below):
► Introduction to Civil Court Mediation - 6/19/2014
► Reflective Debrief and Self-Care - 7/17/2014
► Will Your Mediation Stay Confidential? - 8/21/2014
► Pushing Through Impasse - 9/18/14
► Mediator Impartiality - 10/16/2014
► Identity Based Conflict - 11/20/2014
► Mastering High Conflict Mediations - 12/18/2014
► The Role of Empathy - 1/15/2015
► Working with Aggressive Parties: An Ethical Approach - 2/19/2015
► Awareness of Human Differences & Facilitating Effective Communication- 3/19/15
► Working with Attorneys - 4/16/2015
► Mental Health Awareness for Mediators - 5/21/2015
Pricing:
Discounted fee when you purchase a group of 6 or 12 classes in advance:
$50 for individual classes (of your choice plus a $25 fee for MCLE credit per class)
$250 for a group of 6 classes (choose any six, plus a $50 fee for MCLE credit
$500 for 12 class series (Plus a $100 fee for MCLE credit)
For more information click HERE
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Class Topic 1: Introduction to Civil Court Mediation
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Date: June 19, 2014
Instructors: Commissioner Thomas Rasch, Jason Stein, Diane Duvall, and Mark Batson Baril
Topics Include:
- Foundational skills for mediating day-of-hearing disputes in court
- Initial Communication with the Parties (the "Pitch")
-Vetting
-Overview of the California Rules of Court for Conduct for Mediators in Court Connected Mediation Programs.
FOR COMPLETE CLASS OVERVIEW CLICK HERE
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Mark Baril, MSMACS: Mark provides proactive conflict management support, capacity building  , and dispute management for high potential startups. Mark has a BS in Business Management and a MS in Mediation in Conflict Studies. He has worked as a mediation and conflict management trainer at Suny Plattsburg, Vermont Law School, SEEDS Community Resolution Center, as well as several Business incubators in San Francisco and Portland, OR. Mark worked as the SEEDS Courts Mediation Program Supervisor and then Manager from 2010-2012. www.resologics.com. For complete biography please click here.
Diane Duvall:  Diane Duvall is an attorney-mediator with a background in pre-trial civil litigation and small-business consulting. Following her graduation from USF School of Law in 1996, she handled cases involving contract disputes, real property and family law matters, employment discrimination, and bankruptcy law, and also provided small-business consulting services, with an emphasis on contract review, negotiation, and drafting. For complete biography please click here.
Commissioner Thomas Rasch - Commissioner Rasch has worked in the California Court System as a  Commissioner for nearly 30 years. Both as a practicing attorney and now in the role as the final decision maker, he has gained extensive experience with small claims, civil harassment, pre-trial settlement conferences, domestic violence, traffic, as well as in criminal trials. Commissioner Rasch is a strong advocate of mediation in the court system and brings with him a deep understanding of the intricacies of working with mediators in his court.
Jason Stein -  Jason H. Stein is the Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs Administrator at the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda. He has worked as a Staff Attorney at the San Francisco non-profit AIDS Legal Referral Panel, a Citizen's Complaint Officer at the San Francisco Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board, and a mediator in private practice. For complete biography please click here.
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Class Topic 2: Reflective Debrief and Self-Care
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Date: July 17, 2014
Instructors - Barbara Lipson, Diane Duvall, Mark Batson Baril
Topics Include:
- Theory/ Why is Debrief Important
- Debrief Process
- The Role of Debriefer
- Tools for Debriefing
- Confidentiality in the Debrief Process
FOR COMPLETE CLASS OVERVIEW CLICK HERE
TO REGISTER CLICK HERE
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Mark Baril, MSMACS-
 Mark provides proactive conflict management support, capacity building and dispute management for high potential startups. Mark has a BS in Business Management and a MS in Mediation in Conflict Studies. He has worked as a mediation and conflict management trainer at Suny Plattsburg, Vermont Law School, SEEDS Community Resolution Center, as well as several Business incubators in San Francisco and Portland, OR. Mark worked as the SEEDS Courts Mediation Program Supervisor and then Manager from 2010-2012. For complete biography please click here.
Barbara Lipson, SEEDS Core Programs Manager -  Barbara Lipson is a certified mediator and has been practicing since 2006. In 2010, she joined the SEEDS team as the manager of the facilitation and training programs and currently holds the position of Community Mediation and Facilitation Program Manager. Before joining SEEDS , Barbara had her own business providing mediation, facilitation and training for individuals and organizations. She has experience working with schools, spiritual communities, courts, businesses, and public agencies. For complete biography please click here
Diane Duvall- Diane Duvall is an attorney-mediator with a background in pre-trial civil litigation and small-business consulting. Following her graduation from USF School of Law in 1996, she handled cases involving contract disputes, real property and family law matters, employment discrimination, and bankruptcy law, and also provided small-business consulting services, with an emphasis on contract review, negotiation, and drafting. For complete biography please click here.
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Class Topic 3: Will Your Mediation Stay Confidential?
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Date: August 21, 2014
Instructor - Ron Kelly
Topics Include:
-What should you do if you hear about threats in your mediation?
-Is everything said in mediation secret by law?
-What happens if one of the parties tells others something they hear in mediation?
-What if someone lied to get a settlement?
- This course provide an in depth understanding of the laws, court rules, and ethics pertaining to mediator confidentiality for both new and experienced mediators
- You'll learn about the problems that have tripped up even experienced mediators and lawyers, and what to do about them.
FOR COMPLETE CLASS OVERVIEW CLICK HERE
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_____________________________________________ Ron Kelly - Ron Kelly is one of the principal architects of California mediation law. He served as the expert advisor to the Law Revision Commission in drafting California's main mediation confidentiality statutes (Evidence Code sections 1115-1128). He's been honored with eight major ADR awards for his work in building the field, including Peacemaker of the Year in California, and Honored Instructor at Berkeley. Mediating since 1970, arbitrating since 1986, he's a co-founder of two of California's main ADR professional organizations. Judges in every superior court in the Bay Area have chosen to enroll in his trainings. For a complete biography click here. |
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Class Topic 4: Pushing Through Impasse
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Date: September 18, 2014
Instructor - John Ford
Class Overview:
This unique class will initially explore impasse through somatic exercises and then will relate our experiences to a common laundry list of items about impasse interventions from a conflict management and mediation perspective. We'll come up with a new list of our top 10 tools and techniques for breaking impasse, but also ground ourselves in an approach that is intuitive. Finally, we'll practice approaches that help us integrate our insights through simple role plays. The goal is to share a working approach that allows agility in the moment and sensitivity to the actual situation the next time you arrive in the room, at impasse.
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John Ford - John has provided training to thousands of employees in the workplace, at all levels, across a wide range of industries. He is the current trainer of the two day Mastering Workplace Mediation seminar to members of the Northern California HR Association. It is this training that inspired him to write his book, The HR Managers Guide To Workplace Mediation. John teaches negotiation at UC Hastings School of Law, mediation to graduate business and psychology students at Golden Gate University and organizational collaboration online through Creighton University. Mr. Ford is a past president of the Association For Dispute Resolution of Northern California(ADRNC). Currently, he is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the ADRNC. For a complete biography click here.
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Class Topic 5: Mediator Impartiality
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Date: October 16, 2014
Instructor: Phillip Neiman, Esq.
Topics Include:
- Maintaining an Impartial Versus Omni-partial Presence
- How Mediator Bias Impedes Problem-Solving & Creativity
- Identifying and Responding to Your Own Bias
- Responding to Party Perception of Mediator Bias
- Checking for Conflicts of Interest, Disclosure & Consent
- Deciding Not to Mediate
- Developing Awareness of Bias through Debrief and Post-Mediation Processing
FOR COMPLETE CLASS OVERVIEW CLICK HERE
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Phillip Neiman, Esq: After graduating from UCLA School of Law in 1990 and practicing law in Los Angeles, Phil worked as an investment banker for 10 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rochon Capital Group, Ltd., a member firm of the National Association of Securities Dealers (now, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), where he originated, structured and marketed debt and equity financings across a range of industries, including software, electronics, manufacturing, publishing and consumer products. . After his retirement from banking in 2004, Phil began mediating conflicts and facilitating transactions for his corporate and institutional clients, and shortly thereafter launched a full-time mediation practice. http://www.neimanmediation.com/ For a complete biography click here.
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Class Topic 6: Identity Based Conflict
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Instructor - Jennifer Kresge
Topics Include:
- Understanding Basic Human Needs
- Building Layers of Common Identity
- Reflecting Peaceful and Conciliatory Gestures
- Impact of the Mediator's Unconditional Human Regard
- Highlighting Alternate Perspectives
- Broadening the Context
- Building Common Definitions
- Importance of Recognition and Security
FOR COMPLETE CLASS OVERVIEW CLICK HERE
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Jennifer Kresge - Jennifer Kresge has undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology and a Masters of Governance certification. A mediator for over twenty-six years, she has mediated over 2,000 cases with a variety of disputes, resulting in expert awareness of the complexities of dispute resolution. Jennifer is the liaison for Napa Superior Court's Peer Court and Restorative Justice Programs is Past President of the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California, an Advanced Practitioner/Trainer member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, a member of the Legislative and Public Policy Committee of ACR, and the Napa Valley Leadership Council. For a complete biography click here.
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Class Topic 7: Mastering High Conflict Mediations
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Date: December 18, 2014
Instructor - Jennifer Kresge
Class Overview: All Mediators must be prepared to handle a variety of emotional and subject-matter dynamics ad-hoc. With high-intensity, relationship-driven conflicts, in some cases where violence has occurred between the parties, the Mediator is pushed to develop and refine core structural and process techniques to match the needs of the parties. This intensive class is designed to help a mediator work in high conflict negotiations safely and productively. The topic and take-aways will be explored from a neuroscience, psychology, and experienced mediator process perspective. Students will learn how to anticipate, plan for, understand in real time, and manage mediations that involve intense/high conflict.
A small part of this workshop will touch on logistical and basic skills for mediating High Conflict day-of-hearing disputes in Civil Harassment court. This section is designed as a primer for fieldwork certificate students and anyone mediating in a civil harassment court setting.
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Jennifer Kresge- Jennifer Kresge has undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology and a Masters of Governance certification. A mediator for over twenty-six years, she has mediated over 2,000 cases with a variety of disputes, resulting in expert awareness of the complexities of dispute resolution. Jennifer is the liaison for Napa Superior Court's Peer Court and Restorative Justice Programs is Past President of the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California, an Advanced Practitioner/Trainer member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, a member of the Legislative and Public Policy Committee of ACR, and the Napa Valley Leadership Council. For a complete biography click here.
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Class Topic 8: The Role of Empathy
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Date: January 15, 2015
Instructor - Dana Curtis
Topics Include:
- Innate Origins of Human Empathy
- Why Empathy Works
- Empathetic response as a building block for human connection and shared understanding
- Equalizing Empathetic Attention/ Maintaining Omni-partiality
- The Limits of Empathy and impact on the mediation process
- How to Access Empathetic Response for an Unlikable Party
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Dana Curtis - Dana is an attorney mediator in Sausalito, CA, and mediates a broad range of disputes. Her 23-year mediation career includes four years as staff mediator for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and recognition as a "Top 50" California neutral. She conducts mediation training for organizations, courts and law schools throughout the U.S. and internationally, including at Stanford Law School, where she taught for ten years. For a complete biography click here.
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Class Topic 9: Working with Aggressive Parties : An Ethical Approach
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Date: February 19, 2015
Instructor - Kimberly Papillon
Topics Include:
- Recognizing Aggressive/ High-Conflict Dynamics
-How can we find a way forward when strong aggression by one or more parties seems to be de-railing the mediation?
- The opportunities and challenges presented by parties who demonstrate high-conflict tendencies or strong aggression
- Assessing the Mediator's Ability and Willingness to Mediate
- Testing Party Perception: Do the Parties Really Need Calm Dialogue?
- Impact on Impartiality
- Tools and Techniques for Handling Strong Aggression
- Mediator Self-Care/ Processing the Mediation
- Safety Concerns
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Kimberly Papillon - Ms. Papillon is faculty at the National Judicial College. She worked as an attorney in large law firms representing Fortune 500 Companies, government entities and tech start-ups. Ms. Papillon served as vice-chair of the California State Bar's Committee on Ethnic and Minority Relations, and in that capacity served as a liaison from the State Bar to the Judicial Council's Access and Fairness Advisory Committee. Kimberly has a BA degree from U.C. Berkeley and a JD degree from Columbia University School of Law. For a complete biography click here.
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Class Topic 10: Awareness of Human Differences and Facilitating Effective Communication
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Instructor - Bill Say, M.A.
Topics Include:
- How do our diverse human factors, styles of communicating, and relative power impact mediations and the mediator's own responses?
-Key concepts and practical tools to deal with diversity issues in mediation with a special focus on the mediator's awareness process and bias reduction
- Understand how diversity and the complex rank and privilege dynamics associated with human differences may influence communication (including escalating and de-escalating signals), conflict, power differentials, and mediator "siding".
FOR COMPLETE CLASS OVERVIEW CLICK HERE
TO REGISTER CLICK HERE _____________________________________________ Bill Say, M.A.- Bill Say, M.A., brings over twenty years of experience to the intersection of diversity awareness training, conflict resolution, and leadership/team/community building, including work in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He has consulted to non-profits, educational institutions, community groups, and UN refugee health organizations. He is a faculty member of the UC Berkeley Extension School of Professional Communication, and a Mindell Process Work Diplomate. His website is www.billsay.com For a complete biography click here. |
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Class Topic 11: Working with Attorneys
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Date: April 16, 2015
Instructor - Dana Curtis
Topics Include:
- Benefits and Drawbacks of Attorney Participation
- Developing a Shared Understanding of Mediation Goals and Guidelines
- Discussing Attorney Participation/Role During Mediation
- Vetting with Attorney Input
- Communicating Process Concerns to Attorneys
- Mediating with Unequally Represented Parties
- Assessing and Communicating the Value of Party-Only Sessions
- Easing the Shift from Adversarial to Collaborative Advocacy
- The Attorney-Advised Settlement Process
FOR COMPLETE CLASS OVERVIEW CLICK HERE
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Dana Curtis -
 Dana is an attorney mediator in Sausalito, CA, and mediates a broad range of disputes. Her 23-year mediation career includes four years as staff mediator for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and recognition as a "Top 50" California neutral. She conducts mediation training for organizations, courts and law schools throughout the U.S. and internationally, including at Stanford Law School, where she taught for ten years. For a complete biography click here.
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Class Topic 12: Mental Health Awareness for Mediators
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Instructors - Ella Liggins-Greenhouse, LCSW and Michael Roosevelt, MS
This workshop will focus on developing a set of practice guidelines to address the following:
- Identifying signs of mental instability in mediation participants
- Assessing whether to continue mediating if mental instability is known or suspected
- Adding to or adjusting the tools and techniques used to optimize chances of a meaningful resolution
- Modifying the process to accommodate the needs of all participants if the mediation continues.
- How to distinguish between mental illness and specific developmental disorders.
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Michael Roosevelt, MS -M ichael Roosevelt has been a judicial educator for the California Administrative Office of the Court, where he has specialized in designing programs for judicial officers, lawyers, court staff and administrators on diversity matters. In 1998, he developed and taught, Beyond Bias: Assuring Fairness in the Courts, a fairness and diversity curriculum for court staff. This comprehensive curriculum was designed and delivered to reach 15,000 court employees. In 2008, he served on the statewide committee to reduce mental health stigma and contributed to the 2011 Judicial Council Mental Health Task Force Report. For a complete biography click here.
Ella Ann Liggins, LCSW -  I retired from my position at Regional Center of the East Bay (RCEB), an agency serving Developmentally Disabled (DD) individuals in the East County in September 2013. My career at RCEB began in 1991, where I started as a Supervisor of Client Services. In 2008, I assumed the position of Associate Director. My educational background includes a Master of Social Work degree, which I received at Fordham University in New York City in 1977. After completing my Master's, I returned to California and took a Case Management position at the Association for Retarded Citizens-Alameda County, a delegation agency for RCEB. In 1992, I received my LCSW. I am currently a member of the National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter. For a complete biography click here.
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SEEDS Community Resolution Center
2530 San Pablo Ave, Suite A, Berkeley, CA 94702
P: 510-548-2377 F: 510-548-4051
www.seedscrc.org
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