The ACR International Section and ADRHub.com present a “Journey to Empathy”, a FREE webinar that follows the presenter’s research into Empathy and Compassion as tools in mediation and negotiation. WHEN – Monday, April 27, 2015 – 5-6-pm Eastern Time (11-00am – Noon Hawaii Time). PRESENTER Martin Golder is a mediator in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is a member of Mediate BC and a mentor in the BC Court Mediation program. He has spent 15 years following a path to understand and use empathy as a primary tool in conflict management. SIGN UP – For more information and to sign up click here
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The UHM Matsunaga Institute for Peace announces the following events, which will be held in UH Manoa Krauss 012: Negotiation for Women — FREE! Enrollment limited; Register early! (P13714) Wednesday, April 29, 2015 6:00-7:30pm – Presenters: Elizabeth Kent & Carole Petersen Powerful Listening: How To Listen So People Will Share Their Concerns With You (P13728) Friday, May 8, 2015 8:00am-12:00pm – Presenters: Elizabeth Kent Challenging Conversations: How To Share Your Concerns So People Will Hear You (P13729) Friday, May 15, 2015 8:00am-12:00pm – Presenter: Elizabeth Kent Overview of Meeting Management Basics (P13730) Friday, May 22, 2015 8:00am-12:00pm – Presenter: Elizabeth Kent Run a Great Meeting! (P13731) Fridays, June 19 & 26, 2015 8:00am-4:00pm – Presenter: Elizabeth Kent For more information, view/print their flyer and to sign up click here PRESENTERS Elizabeth Kent, JD, William S. Richardson School of Law, is sole proprietor of Meeting Expectations Hawai‘i, providing a variety of alternative dispute resolution processes and training, including mediation and facilitation services tailored to meet clients’ needs. While director (1996-2013) and research analyst (1994-1996) for the Hawaii Judiciary, Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Kent helped develop mediation programs for the courts and executive branch; worked on education and training on communication and dispute prevention and resolution; researched and advised the courts on ADR-related issues; oversaw the Judiciary’s contract with the community mediation centers; and mediated/facilitated cases that affected public policy. Carole Petersen, Harvard Law School, is a Professor and Director of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace. She is also a member of the University of Hawai‘i Center for Chinese Studies and teaches International Law, International Human Rights, and Gender and the Law in the William S. Richardson School of Law.
In this webinar, which is titled “Hostage/Crisis Negotiations: Lessons learned from the Bad, the Ugly and the Sad”, Dr.Thomas Strentz, psychologist and author with many years of experience with the FBI and as a counterterrorism consultant, will offer case histories on how to: Identify the 3 main types of personality disorders with whom negotiators are likely to come into contact Understand their perceptions of reality Recognize their primary defense mechanisms Negotiate with them Sponsored by the Association for Conflict Resolution and ADRhub.com, this informative and entertaining webinar is designed for crisis and hostage negotiators, but all conflict resolution practitioners including mediators, conflict coaches, students, and ombuds will find the skills applicable to the work they do. About the Presenter A former FBI negotiator who designed, directed and developed the FBI negotiations program from 1975-1987, Dr. Strentz has also committed his expertise to the resolution of numerous terrorist situations world-wide. He has provided consultation and training in unconventional, security, and counter terrorism operations to various US military, US federal, state and local law enforcement and friendly foreign military/LE special operations units. He utilizes his expertise for organizations and individuals who work and travel in high-risk areas, such as domestic and international airlines, law enforcement, government agencies and the military. When – Tuesday, April 24, 2015 – From Noon to 1:00pm Hawaii Time (6:00pm to 7:00pm ET) SIGN UP – This webinar is FREE but spots are limited. To sign up click here
Saturday, April 18, 2015 Gay Barfield, Ph.D, Lic. MFT will present “From Conflict to Connection”, a Ku’ikahi Mediation Center workshop. Participants will learn how to: Engage in spirited fighting (while maintaining personal integrity) Make the first move toward reconciliation Increase compassion and caring Foster a sense of ease at home, in the workplace and across cultures Set personal aims for making change ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR Gay Barfield, Ph.D., Lic. MFT, is a human relations educator, trainer, consultant, and therapist specializing in Carl Rogers’ person-centered approach to diversity, conflict dialogue, and listening across differences at work, at home, cross-culturally, and between genders. WHEN AND WHERE Saturday, April 18, 2015 – 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 16-105 Opukahaia Street, Kea’au, HI 96749 TUITION – $50 (Group discounts and partial scholarships available) SIGN UP – For more info and to sign up click here
The theme of the 5th Annual International Cyber Conference on Dispute Resolution, which will be held on April 15, 2015 from 9 to 11:30 am Hawaii Time, is “Inter-cultural Conflict Resolution”. Sessions include: Therapeutic jurisprudence and inter-cultural conflict The causes and consequences of inter-cultural conflict and the value of restorative practices Circle peace-making, indigenous knowledge and dispute resolution Posters and papers (APA formatted) are still welcome and you have the opportunity to be published in the Alaska Journal of Dispute Resolution. Please submit to bnjarrett@alaska.edu You can attend in person (Saunders Hall 713 – UH Campus) or by teleconference. TO ATTEND IN PERSON RSVP by April 13, 2015 – call (808) 956-6459 or email smoke@hawaii.edu TO PARTICIPATE BY TELECONFERENCE Send an email asap to Jerry Farnam at ua-video@alaska.edu for video confereconferencing and technical support to confirm your participation in the conference. To view the conference flyer click here
Conflict Resolvers routinely enter into conversations and circumstances most would choose to avoid. These conversations can contain some of the strongest emotional triggers, and create the most stressful situations, that we may ever experience. Join Stephen Kotev, Chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Task force on Safety in ADR to learn how to prepare, what to ask, and what to do to care for yourself and your clients in the most dangerous of circumstances. Click here for the ACR Guidelines for Safety Presenter Bio Stephen Kotev is a Washington D.C. based conflict resolution consultant and Chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution Taskforce on Safety in ADR. He holds a Master of Science degree from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido. Stephen specializes in training conflict resolvers on how to maintain their calm in the most stressful of situations and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on this topic for George Mason University. He can be reached at www.StephenKotev.com When This Free 1-hour ADRHub.com webinar will be held Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 6:00PM Eastern Time (Noon Hawaii Time). To sign up click here
If you are a member of the ACR Workplace Section you can attend “Mediating Conflicts in the Religious Workplace with David Brubaker, MBA, Ph.D.”, a free 1-hour teleseminar Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 2:00pm EST (8:00am Hawaii Time). Practitioners with experience mediating conflict in the workplace are well-placed to expand their practice to include religious settings. Regardless of faith tradition or organizational context, (congregation, diocese, or faith-based organization), conflicts surface in every religious workplace. What’s most important for conflict interveners in the religious workplace is an understanding of and respect for the spiritual commitments and practices of disputants. This teleseminar will include insights from the presenter’s experience of mediating and consulting with a broad range of organizations in the Christian tradition and with a Hindu ashram. We will also invite participants to share their learning from conflict work in other traditions. Presenter David Brubaker is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies in the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. He has more than 25 years of experience in workplace mediation and training and in organizational and congregational consulting. David has consulted and trained with organizations throughout the U.S. and in a dozen international settings including Northern Ireland, Mozambique, Angola, Nepal, Myanmar, Egypt, and Jordan. He is the author of numerous articles on conflict transformation and of “Promise and Peril: Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations” (published by The Alban Institute) and co-author of “The Little Book of Healthy Organizations” (Good Books). David earned a BS in business administration from Messiah College, an MBA from Eastern University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, specializing in religion and organizations For more information click here
1-Hour INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE MEDIATION FREE Webinar with Giuseppe Leone, Founder of Virtual Mediation Lab Sponsored by ACR Hawaii and the Hawaii State Bar Association – ADR Section This 1-hour webinar is based on the experience of ACR Hawaii board member Giuseppe Leone: Running more than 100 online mediation simulations with mediators from 30 countries Mediating online workplace cases for the United States Postal Service Teaching mediators around the world how to mediate online Learning Objectives Participants will learn: What Online Mediation Means How It Works How to Integrate Mediation by Video, Phone, Email and Face-to-Face Which Case Are Suitable for Online Mediation Online Mediation Benefits Mediation Experience and Online Technology Additional Skills and Experience for Online Mediation Which Video Conferencing Software Works Best for Online Mediation Face-to-Face Mediators – From Skepticism to Enthusiasm How to Get Online Mediation Experience and Training About Giuseppe Leone Giuseppe has been a mediator since 1997. He is the founder and Project Manager of Virtual Mediation Lab – an online mediation project sponsored by ACR Hawaii to help mediators worldwide (1) practice their skills by participating in Free online mediation simulations of commercial, family and workplace cases; (2) learn how to mediate online and add online mediation to their practice. After Virtual Mediation Lab was launched in 2011, it received national and international attention – for example, it was featured in the Summer 2013 issue on “Innovation and Conflict Resolution” of ACResolution, the quarterly magazine of the Association for Conflict Resolution. In January 2014, Giuseppe broke new ground in the USPS REDRESS mediation program. For the first time since that program started in 1994, he mediated a workplace discrimination case “online” – with the parties in Guam and an EEO observer in California. Thanks to his extensive online mediation experience, Giuseppe is now participating…
ADRHub.com announces their February 2015 FREE webinar, which is titled “A Practical Approach to Online Mediation”. Presented by Joe Al-Khayat and Aditya Shivkumar, it will take place Friday, February 27th, 2015 at 12:00pm Central Time. Joe Al-Khayat is the Co-Founder of mediateitonline which provides video based technology for parties to mediate online. During his presentation, Joe will explore: an introduction to ODR, overcoming the commonly raised challenges to ODR and conducting a mediation using mediateitonline. To sign up click here
On February 19, 2015 27 people (all interested in conflict resolution) attended Lisa Jacobs’ workshop Defuse Conflict With Nonviolent, Compassionate Communication, which was held at HSBA Conference Room. Here are some pictures kindly taken by ACR Board Member Lisa Nakao. At the end of Lisa Jacobs’ workshop, ACR Hawaii Board Member Giuseppe Leone gave a 5-min presentation on our Association Participants were invited to give us their feedback by filling out an Exit Survey that had been prepared by Lisa Nakao and whose results are shown below