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Speakers: Forrest Woody Mosten and Judge Elizabeth Scully
Judge Elizabeth Potter Scully and Woody Mosten will combine their experience to offer fresh insights to serve families who are not represented by attorneys. Drawing on the concepts developed in their books and articles as well as their mediation course that they taught together at UCLA School of Law , you will gain invaluable and tools to help clients better develop workable and sustainable agreements, understand the value of trained consulting lawyers and interdisciplinary teams, and gain knowledge to better navigate the family court system.
Speaker: Kate Anthony
As professionals in our field, it’s easy to lose sight of the perspective of someone who is just starting out and doesn’t have the same level of knowledge and experience that we do. This is especially crucial to remember when working as a mediator with clients who are going through one of the most emotionally challenging times of their lives.
Join Kate Anthony, High Conflict Divorce Coach, author of The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage (Kensington Books), and host of The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast, for a discussion about seeing mediation from the clients’ point of view and learning how to effectively prepare your mediation clients for the outcomes they desire and deserve.
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Speakers: Laurie Itkin and Jami Fosgate
RSUs, PSUs, ISOs, NQs, and the endless flavors of equity compensation can boggle the minds of even the most experienced mediators. Family budgets have been built around the assumption that each year the employee-spouse will receive new grants of equity compensation which in many cases dwarf the amount paid in base salary.
Perhaps the clients haven’t agreed upon a date of separation because they want to understand the financial implications of agreeing to one date over the other.
In this presentation, CDFA Laurie Itkin and Mediator Jami Fosgate, will share the process they use to help clients come to informed agreements on how to treat equity compensation for purposes of property division and income available for support.
Speakers: Terri Breer
This workshop will address how to create transformative outcomes in mediation where the subject dispute involves the special relationships between family members, including divorce, elder and probate disputes. In divorce there will always be an ongoing relationship between the parties particularly if they will be co-parenting in the future or sharing social relationships. Elder disputes often involve disputes between parents and their children and/or between siblings who disagree on the care plan for an elderly parent. Probate disputes may involve disputes between 1st and 2nd wives, stepchildren and biological children, and between siblings and step-siblings. Ms. Breer will introduce several skills to empower decision making that will promote family harmony and transform conflicts into settlements that preserve the special relationships involved.
Program will include skills that empower parties’ decision making to promote family harmony and Transformative skills that will change the way the parties manage conflict and improve the familial relationship.
Speakers: Shawn Weber and Robin Seigle
Often clients simply don’t hear each other. Perhaps it’s the marriage-long argument that was never resolved. Mediators can help reveal the real meaning of the message both as delivered and as received. When the real “rub” is identified, the complaints are clarified and result in a better understanding. This workshop goes beyond active listening and neutral language to translate the disconnect and overcome defensiveness. It explores hands-on, practical techniques to identify blocking issues and move clients from complaints to reasonable proposals.
Speakers: Lucia Galante Johnson
Analyzing the Probate process and how mediation can assist parties in disputes such as wills, trusts, guardianships (a form of custody), eldercare, conservatorships, and supporting relationships between families such as sibling concerns, grandparent care, and special needs. We will take various real-life scenarios and have some role-play to better understand some of the issues that arise in disputes between family members.
Speakers: Zach Taylor and Leslie Heid
We will Explore financing options (Updated to Reflect current 2024 Market) your clients can use to:
Speakers: Dr. Brian Jarrett, Pastor Guy Witherspoon, M.B.A., M.A., Professor Renata Valree, and Lucia Galante Johnson
Objective: To introduce the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilder (NCRP) Master of Art (MA) Program curriculum and Professional Pathway in Family Mediation. The Panel of Practitioners will address not only how Family Mediation impacts the divorcing couple and their children but also the impact at the community and global level. The panel will discuss the concepts of peacebuilding, transformative dialogue, and integral mediation practices that can expand the toolkit for family mediators.
Format: The panel will consist of faculty from the NCRP program that are part of the Family Mediation program. Professor Lucia Galante Johnson will facilitate this discussion. She is lead faculty on the Family Mediation Pathway for the master’s degree program of NCRP. The Director, Dr. Brian Jarrett along with Associate Professors Renata Valree, and Pastor Guy Witherspoon will be our panelist. A Questions and Answers portion will be provided.
Issues for discussion: How can we expand the protocol and practices associated with family mediation to improve it. We will focus on ways to maintain healthy family dynamics, improve relations after separation, contribute to the health of the community and to build an effective society that supports the family system.
Conclusion: This panel promotes the Family Mediation Pathway in the NCRP Program that supports the goals at the Family Mediation Institute (FMI) annual conference.
Speaker: Galit Sneh Lurie
Beginning in 2016 Israel enacted a revolutionary legal reform designed to channel family conflicts out of the courts. The reform resulted in a 50% decline of families using litigation and a social preference for using mediation. Details of this reform will be presented, including the voyage to enact it and the social change it caused.
