ANNUAL MEETING
MARCH 4-6, 2010
&
2010 DUES INVOICE
MARCH 4-6, 2010
&
2010 DUES INVOICE
The Understanding-
Based Approach to Mediation
Based Approach to Mediation
Presented by
Jack Himmelstein
Co-founder and Co-director of the
Center for Understanding in Conflict
Jack Himmelstein
Co-founder and Co-director of the
Center for Understanding in Conflict
Thursday, March 4, 2010
7 – 9 p.m.
7 – 9 p.m.
Pre-Meeting Reception and Dialogue
Friday, March 5, 2010
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
6 Hours CLE/CME Approved
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
6 Hours CLE/CME Approved
Saturday, March 6, 2010
9 a.m. til Noon
9 a.m. til Noon
Inaugural Post-Session Mediator Summit
DETAILS BELOW
Register & Pay 2010 Dues before February 19, 2010 to save $25.00!
Registration Fees:
CLE/CME Fee includes lunch and Jack Himmelstein’s award winning book
Challenging Conflict: Mediation Through Understanding
CLE/CME Fee includes lunch and Jack Himmelstein’s award winning book
Challenging Conflict: Mediation Through Understanding
PAID ON OR BEFORE FEBRUARY 19, 2010:
3. TAPM Associate Member Renewing 2010 Dues $125.00 CLE/CME Fee
$ 50.00 2010 Associate Dues
$175.00 TOTAL
PAID AFTER FEBRUARY 19, 2010:
Understanding-Based Mediation developed out of a desire to support persons in conflict to work through their conflict together, rather than the responsibility resting with a judge or attorneys through litigation or negotiation While mediation is thought to be different, many approaches place great power, explicitly or implicitly, in the hands of a mediator who shuttles back and forth between the disputing parties in the effort to assess the situation and broker a deal. They usually rely heavily, if not primarily, on assessing with (or without the parties’ lawyers) the likely outcome if the case were to go to court.
In the Understanding-Based approach, the mediator seeks to work directly and simultaneously together with the parties throughout the mediation in the effort to support their finding their resolution to their conflict based on what they view as important to them. In this model, we welcome lawyers' participation and include the law, but do not rely solely on the law. Our goals are: (1) to educate the parties about the law and possible legal outcomes and (2) to support their freedom to fashion their own creative solutions that may differ from what a court might decide. In this way, the parties learn that they can together fashion agreements that respond to both their individual interests and their common goals while also being well informed about their legal rights and the judicial alternatives to a settlement.
The lawyers are there not only to protect their clients and to inform them about the legal alternatives. They can also prove crucial in helping their clients understand and articulate what is important to them underlying their dispute and in coming up with creative solutions to their conflict based on the parties’ interests that may be quite different from what a court might do. In these ways, the lawyers may better serve their clients.
A central challenge facing people in conflict is how they can together assume the responsibility for resolving their conflict. Taking on that challenge is important for individuals and organizations in conflict in part because the results reached by their working through the conflict can be much more fulfilling and the path taken much more rewarding. But we are also motivated by the larger challenge facing humanity to learn ways to work together to resolve the deep conflicts we face in today's increasingly interconnected world. The aspiration to search for those ways has motivated us to explore a different approach embodied in what we have come to term the Understanding-Based approach to mediation.
Training in the Understanding-Based Approach to Mediation
This training will focus on several of the core principles and key practices in the Understanding-Based approach to mediation, including:
- The mediator working together with the parties (and their lawyers)
- The mediator understanding the parties
- Helping the parties understand each other
- Supporting the parties in understanding and articulating their interests as the basis for creative solutions
- The role of the lawyers (and the law) in supporting parties’ responsibility and understanding.
The format will include presentation, learning exercises, video, role play, and discussion
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Jack Himmelstein is co-founder and co-director of the Center for Understanding in Conflict, a national nonprofit educational institute which trains lawyers and other professionals in the Understanding-Based approach to resolving conflict. He is co-author, with Gary Friedman, of the award-winning Challenging Conflict: Mediation Through Understanding, recently published by the American Bar Association in cooperation with the Harvard Program on Negotiation (co-winner of the CPR International Institute for Conflict Resolution Outstanding Book Award). For the past 25 years, he has conducted introductory and advanced trainings in this approach to conflict resolution throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Israel, including trainings for attorneys at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. More recently, these trainings have included bringing this approach into the teaching of collaborative practice.After graduating Harvard Law School, Jack was a civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He then became a clinical professor at Columbia Law School where his teaching focused on alternative approaches to practice, also directing a national project training law teachers from throughout the United States in humanistic approaches to law teaching. He left Columbia to become a founder of the City University of New York School of Law, founded to train lawyers in public interest law. He has since devoted full time to developing and teaching the Understanding-Based approach to resolving conflict through the Center for Understanding in Conflict and practicing mediation in New York City, where he lives.
The link to his website is http://www.understandinginconflict.org/
AGENDA
Thursday, March 4
7 – 9:00 p.m.
7 – 9:00 p.m.
Pre-Meeting Reception and Dialogue
On Thursday evening, March 4, an introductory session with Jack Himmelstein will be held to orient participants to the basic concepts of his approach to mediation. From 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. in Lipscomb’s Ezell Center, TAPM will host a short reception and dialogue for all who would like to meet Jack and learn from his experiences in a more intimate setting. There is no additional cost for this reception and dialogue. Click HERE if you are able to attend.
Friday, March 5, 2010
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
6 Hours CLE/CME Approved
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
6 Hours CLE/CME Approved
The Understanding-
Based Approach to Mediation
Based Approach to Mediation
Saturday, March 6
9:00 a.m. - Noon
9:00 a.m. - Noon
Inaugural Post-Session Mediator Summit
As an outgrowth of the state wide awareness of the growing importance of mediation in business, courts and communities, TAPM will host a three (3) hour session on Saturday, March 6 at the Lipscomb Ezell Center. Flowing out of the ground breaking work of the Tennessee Mediation Visioning Project, http://www.makeitrealtn.org in 2009, private and community mediators will continue to work toward creating a functioning state wide mediation community and implement action plans. From 9 a.m. until noon on Saturday, March 6, TAPM will host a working session to continue the important work of integrating and coordinating mediation opportunities and resources for mediators and conflict resolution constituents from across the state in order to provide access to mediation services to all citizens of the state. Plan to be a part of this important work by attending this post-session summit. There is no cost to attend this session if you are attending the other TAPM Annual Meeting events . Click HERE if you plan to attend Saturday, March 6.
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