“What is the difference between educating lawyers and educating mediators”?
One difference is a result of basic brain function. In general, legal education requires declarative memory whereas mediator education requires procedural memory.
Mediator Education Program
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Fundamentals of Mediation
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Mediation Beyond the Basics
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Advanced Mediation
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Lawyers and Paralegals: Fundamentals of Mediation Contains CPD hours
Our basic course, Fundamentals of Mediation on September 30, October 1, 2, 5, and 6, 2015 is accredited by the Law Society of Upper Canada for CPD.
This program contains 1.25 Professionalism Hours and 38.75 Substantive Hours.
Avoid Temptation in Workplace Conflict
It seems simple to say that we cannot control others’ behaviour. All we can control is our own behaviour. Even though the concept is simple, it is very hard to avoid slipping into the thinking patterns of common workplace complaints: their bad behaviour made you respond in kind; you are the innocent victim; you can’t or don’t want to speak up when your dignity is violated.
Manage Marijuana Conflict without Pain
The use of marijuana may be coming to your workplace as a prescribed medication. This issue challenges employers and employees to balance the human rights of an employee prescribed a medication with the health and safety issues linked to the use of that medication. What follows are some practical steps to resolve that conflict.
Listen Your Way Through Impasse
Impasse is a normal part of conflict. Typically it is not the result of negative personalities or bad behavior. Sometimes people only recognize their conflict when they reach impasse. Could their NO become YES to a mutually satisfactory agreement?
Anger Mastery: Taking the Fear Out of Anger
What triggers anger? In this realm perception is reality. Yes, it’s all in your head. Whether we feel anger, anxiety, sadness or joy in a certain situation is a result of the meaning we assign to it.
What Do 2 Rights Make? – Mediation of Competing Human Rights
How do you resolve conflicts where both people claim a human right applies to them?
Some of the most complex and difficult human rights cases involve issues like these.
Note to lawyers: People involved in lawsuits prefer mediation
“People involved in civil lawsuits prefer mediation to nonbinding arbitration”. That finding by a law professor is no surprise to me, nor probably to many other mediators. In my opinion this is valuable information for lawyers seeking to provide the legal services most valuable to their clients.
Welcome to the Common Ground Blog!
Common Ground started as a printed newsletter from Munn Conflict Resolution Services in April, 1999. Gradually it evolved to be in both print and electronic format until it became completely electronic 10 years later in 2009. After 41 issues here we are at another change.
Mediator Education Program
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1
Fundamentals of Mediation
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2
Mediation Beyond the Basics
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3
Advanced Mediation