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 If you are ready to take a serious plunge into mediation, our new 40-hour Mediation Training Course will provide you with the basic skills and knowledge base for beginning a career as a mediator or learning new tools to enhance your mediation skills. 

 

Developed by the Colorado Bar Association ADR Section, the program has been designed to meet the 40-hour training standards approved by the Colorado Bar Association and the Colorado Council of Mediation Organizations (CCMO).

 

Class dates:  January 19, 20, 21, 27 & 28

 

40-hour training agenda:

 

 

 

-Communication Exercise - Ken Cook

- Mediation:  What It Is and What It Is Not - Ken Cook

- Mediation:  Different Roles - Patrick Kenney

- Conflicting Agendas of Attorney and Mediator - Michael Ruderman

- Demonstration Role Play: Cooperation, Not Additional Conflict - Ethical Responsibilities and Challenges of the Lawyer and the Mediator - Cynthia Savage

- Debriefing, Q&A, and Wrap Up

 

- Recap of Day One: Basic Concepts for Practitioners – Merrill Shields and Ken Cook

- The Mediation Process – Katy Miller

- Ethics in Mediation: Disclosure and Confidentiality – O. Russel Murray

- Demonstration Role Play: The Mediation Process

- Reinforcing NeutralityDCommunication – Joseph McMahon & Katy Miller

- Role Play

- Wrap Up Discussion Day 3 – Saturday, January 21, 2006 Moderator:  Jim Carr

- Recap of Day Two – Katy Miller

- Ethics Scenarios

- Ethical Issues Discussion – Steve C. Briggs & Daniel C. Himelspach

- Roles and Responsibilities of the Mediator and Mediation Methods – Samuel Gordon

- Role Play – Assigned Mediation Model

- Wrap Up Discussion Day 4 – Friday, January 27, 2006 Moderator:  Kent Enwright

- Recap of Day Three and Roundtable Discussion –James Carr

- Court Processes and Other Administrative Processes –Marshall Snider

- SettlementDResolution Agreements –O. Russel Murray

- Unauthorized Practice of Law – Cynthia Savage

- Morning Wrap Up Discussion

- Valuing Emotional Injury –Helen Shreves

- Emotional Injury Role Play

- What To Do When You Reach Impasse –Kent Enwright

- Impasse Role Play

- Wrap Up Discussion Day 5 – Saturday, January 28, 2006 Moderator:  Kenneth Cook

- Recap and Roundtable Discussion – Kent Enwright

- Standards of Conduct – Patrick Kenney

- The Power of Apology in Mediation – Susan Jennings

- Managing Attorneys Who are Present at the Mediation – James Stone

- Lunch Discussion (box lunches provided): How to Start a Mediation Practice – Becky Ontiveros and Joseph McMahon

- Role Play

- Panel Discussion:  Mediation Practitioners from Various Specialty Fields

Steve C. Briggs – Judicial Arbiter Group Inc.

Denver, CO

 

James F. Carr – First Assistant Attorney General

State of Colorado Department of Law

Denver, CO

 

Kenneth T. Cook – Cook & Thomas Ltd.

Littleton, CO

 

Kent D. Enwright – Mountain States Employers Council Inc.

Denver, CO

 

Samuel Gordon – JAMS

Denver, CO

 

Daniel C. Himelspach – Dispute Management Inc.

Denver, CO

 

Patrick F. Kenney – Kenney & Kall Mediation Services

Greenwood Village, CO

 

Mark Loye – Jefferson County Mediation Services Program

Golden, CO

 

Susan Jennings – Choices for Conflict Resolution

Denver, CO

 

Joseph P. McMahon, Jr. - Joseph P. McMahon, Jr. LLC

Denver, CO

 

Kathryn E. Miller – Littleton Alternative Dispute Resolution Ltd.

Littleton, CO

 

O. Russel Murray – O. Russel Murray P.C.

Louisville, CO

 

Michael Ruderman

Boulder, CO

 

Rebecca Ontiveros – Mediator

Denver, CO

 

Cynthia A. Savage – Director, Colorado Office of Dispute Resolution

Denver, CO

 

Merrill Shields

Denver, CO

 

Helen Shreves - Family Law Dispute Resolution

Denver, CO

 

Marshall Snider

Denver, CO

 

James L. Stone – JAMS

Denver, CO

 

Louise Wildee - Colorado Council of Mediators

Boulder, CO 

 

Spencer B. Young – Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

Denver, CO