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4 Day Advanced ADR - Mediation Skills Training Course ... read

Presented by the Stitt Feld Handy Group
4 Day Advanced ADR - Mediation Skills Training Course
Leading to Mediator Accreditation
14 – 17 March 2011 ~ London
Law Society CPD (ref: CEZ/CADR) and Bar Council CPD - 30 hours
Course Fee: £2000 + VAT per person
(Discounts available for group bookings)
This exceptional four day workshop will teach participants the process of mediation and will help them
develop the skills needed to act as mediators and when representing parties in complex commercial
disputes.
Day 1 - the course will focus on the Harvard method of Principled Negotiation (developed by Roger
Fisher at Harvard Law School). Participants will engage in exercises that will help them understand
Principled Negotiation which is the basis for the model of mediation that ADR Chambers espouses.
Participants will watch a video of Professor Fisher helping to resolve a particularly difficult business
dispute.
Day 2 - the trainers will present the model of mediation and conduct a demonstration of how a relevant
and difficult mediation might proceed. Participants will then participate in an international business
dispute mediation role-play exercise and will watch a bespoke video of a well known American mediator
mediating that same dispute.
Day 3 - the course focuses on key issues: framing, the use of caucus, and dealing with difficult people.
Participants will engage in three role-plays, a construction dispute, a wrongful termination of
employment dispute, and a personal injury action.
Day 4 - participants will engage in a family business dispute mediation and will study the videoed
comparable practice. Participants will finally engage in a mediation exercise with difficult people who
are trying to derail the mediation process.
The course is very practical and focused on skill building through role-plays. Each exercise is
progressively more challenging and participants will learn the skills to deal with difficult people, difficult
issues and difficult problems.
Participants will role-play in a private setting and the trainers will supervise parts of each role-play and
provide feedback to participants. Each participant will have an opportunity to role-play in the roles of
sole mediator, co-mediator, participant at mediation and lawyer representing a client at mediation. At
the same time a full analysis is given of mediation rules and procedure with discussion phases and
study.
Participants will be expected to spend time overnight preparing for the following days exercises.
Participants will be assessed during the course and will be required to complete a written paper within
14 days of the course which will also be assessed. Successful participants will be accredited as
Mediators.
Newly accredited Mediators will prior to practice as a Mediator be expected to comply with Civil
Mediation Council criteria then in force which include a requirement to observe a number of live
mediations.

To register or for more information please call 0845 072 0111
or email: duggan@adrchambers.co.uk