Human Rights 2003
Course Date: November 7, 2003
Human Rights 2003
Course Date: November 7, 2003
DAY 1: Wednesday, November 23
- Conceptual background and framework for interest and values-based approach to mediation—theory and framework for process
- Role of the mediator, ethical issues, objectives, and appropriateness of mediation
- Voice of the child: how can children be included in decisions affecting their lives
- Intergenerational issues among families: decision-making about family property, businesses, and estates
- How mediators help people listen to one another, speak their own concerns, and negotiate when they are in conflict
- Skills component: identifying interests and values, clarifying and normalizing, integrative naming, and finding common ground
DAY 2: Thursday, November 24
- Understanding the effects of separation on families—anger, loss, self-esteem, displacement
- Assessment and conflict analysis, pre-meetings, and screening for abuse
- Structuring a process tailored to parties’ capacities and needs
- Preparation, logistics, and Agreement to Mediate
- Skills components: acknowledgement and refocusing, empathic listening
DAY 3: Friday, November 25
- Exploring and working with interests and values
- Generating options and building agreements
- Blended families and cultural complexities
- Skills components: tools to work with power differentials, assertion, boundary setting, immediacy
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