Keynote & Workshop Description

Opening Keynote

Speaker: Susan Guthrie

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Susan Guthrie

Mindset Mastery for Mediators: Self-Coaching Techniques to Enhance Client Negotiation Success

Presenter: Tania Leichliter

This session explores the power of mindset in mediation, showing mediators how to guide clients in using self-coaching techniques to manage emotions, focus on goals, and approach negotiation from a place of strength and calm. By helping clients build emotional resilience and a solution-focused mindset, mediators can facilitate a more productive, client-centered negotiation process.

Tania Leichliter

High Conflict Mediation: 10 Paradigm Shifts

Presenter: Bill Eddy

This session will address 10 key paradigm shifts necessary for managing potentially high conflict individuals. The focus shifts to teaching clients four simple problem-solving skills to use during the mediation process. The structure and tasks of this approach, called New Ways for Mediation®, will be described, which can be applied as a complete method or parts of it can be applied to any mediation. The presentation will be based on Bill Eddy’s book Mediating High Conflict Disputes (2021), which draws on his forty years’ experience of divorce and custody mediation. The mediator acts as a guide helping the parties use these four specific problem-solving skills throughout the mediation process to gain a greater sense of ownership of their agenda and their agreements.

Bill Eddy

From Conflict to Collaboration: Guiding Co-Parents Using a Child-Centered Approach in Mediation

Speakers: Kelly Myers and Christina McGee

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Kelly Myers

Christina McGhee

Closing Keynote - Ask the Experts: Solving your Toughest Family Mediation Challenges

Presenters: Terri Breer, Claudia Brown Coulter, Bill Eddy, Susan Guthrie, and Christina McGee

This year, instead of a closing plenary speaker, we’re excited to feature an Expert Panel Discussion to wrap up the conference. This engaging session will give you the opportunity to ask your most pressing practice questions and gain insights from leading professionals in the field.

Terri Breer

Terri Breer

Claudia Brown Coulter

Claudia Brown Coulter

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Bill Eddy

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Susan Guthrie

Christina McGhee

Christina McGhee

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