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Aloha, A job opportunity announcement for the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Director, is posted on the Hawaii State Judiciary’s website.  Job duties and requirements, and other information can be viewed on the Judiciary’s Exempt Employment Opportunities webpage.   If you are interested in this position, please email a cover letter, current resume, and references to:  Recruitment@courts.hawaii.gov or by mail to Hawaii State Judiciary, Human Resources Department, 426 Queen Street, Honolulu, HI 96813.   First consideration will be given to resumes received by Friday, July 23, 2021.

Good afternoon everyone and happy spring! During a season when birds are chirping and flowers are blooming, make time to take in all of the beauty that our planet provides us with every day. As the wise Echart Tolle says, “Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” This coming month we have quite a few events, so get ready to check your schedule! On April 7th, from 9:00 am – 11:30 am, there is a FREE Cyber-Conference on Dispute Resolution. This is the 11th annual conference and we will be hearing from incredible speakers such as: Lorenn Walker: Restorative Practitioner and Professor at University of Hawaii Harold Gatensby: Community Leader and Cirlce Peace-Maker, Tlingit First Nation, Raven Clan, Yukon, Canada Mahmoud Khalili: Madrid’s Bircham International University John Cooper: Confict Resolution Consultant in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Kyrgyzstan Renata Valree: Former President of the National Association for Community Mediation, NCRP Professor, CSUDH Gerson Damiani: Director, Global Center for Peace Studies- University of Sao Paulo, Brazil The conference will be facilitated by Dr. Brian Jarrett and supports the work of those building safer and healthier communities all over the world. Further, the American Bar Association (ABA) is hosting a conference with a hybrid model with in-person programs and events in Los Angeles, CA as well as robust virtual options. The conference takes place from April 14-April 17. All in-person events will follow local and CDC public health guidelines and regulations. The theme of the 2021 Spring Conference is Agility, Disruption, and Reinvention: ADR in a New World.  This past year we have witnessed non-violent and violent confrontations, all in a highly contentious political environment. The 2021 conference will examine how…

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Happy International Women’s Day everyone!  We hope you’re having a great start to the week. This is a reminder to love and uplift all of the women in your life. “Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” –G.D. Anderson For the rest of this month we have a few new events on the calendar. This week on Wednesday the 11th, we have an event entitled Workplace Collaboration taking place from 12:00pm – 1:00pm where we will hear from Donna R. Ching, Ph.D. who will teach us tools to help embrace workplace collaboration. On March 12th an event entitled Practice Makes Permanent: Next Level Bystander Communication Skills is taking place from 8:00am – 12:00pm. We will be practicing our communication skills with Kimberly Dark, an award winning writer and storyteller who wants you to reclaim your power as a social creator to make the world a better place. The workshop is $50 and you must’ve participated in one or more of these prior trainings: Brilliant Bystander Unconscious Bias Linguistic Re-Framing Further, on March 16th from 12pm-1:30pm we have an event titled Beyond the Mute Button which will have us rethinking the need for physical presence in dispute resolution. This is an awesome free event where we will hear from many important mediations, lecturers, and facilitators. The last event on the calendar for this month is on March 18th and it’s entitled What is Excellence? Approaches to Merit and Distinction in Mediation. We will be hearing from Peter S. Adler Ph.D. who is a planner, mediator, facilitator, and a Principal at ACCORD3.0 which is a professional network of consultants specializing in foresight, strategy, and cooperative trouble-shooting. This is a free event taking place from 12:00pm-1:00pm, join us to hear…

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  Hi everyone! We hope you are all safe, happy, and healthy this week. As you may know, this month is Black History Month, an important time to further our understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity. For the rest of the month, we’re proposing the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge from www.eddiemoorejr.com. For 21 days, we encourage you to do one action to educate yourself and to actively unlearn racial bias. On the website linked below, you can find many different options in order to read, listen, watch, and engage in order to understand white privilege and white supremacy. You can also find a printable tracking chart in order to help you stay on course! https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/21daychallenge We also have another upcoming event entitled Bridging the Divide. It will take place on February 19th from 1-2pm and will include a talk-story with past Peace corps Language and Cultural Facilitator Fahzeela Mohamed. We will also be hearing from Damian Owens who served as a Peace Corps Health Education Facilitator in Guyana from 2015-2017. Stephanie Sang, the Peace Corps recruiter at UH Manoa who also served in Madagascar from 2016-2018 will be moderating the event. Join us for this free event! Remember, in order to change the world, we need to take the action into our own hands. “There is no social change fairy. There is only the change made by the hands of individuals.” –Winona LaDuke Have a fantastic day!

Among life events causing the most stress and resulting medical illness, divorce ranks as second, only after death of one’s spouse holding the number one spot. Given this reality, if your marriage is beyond repair, you are faced with a stark choice. You can enter into the violent world of adversarial divorce—with its often long-term, extreme expense, and children-damaging results—or discover the more mindful and appropriate process called Collaborative Divorce to end your marriage in a more peaceful, cost-effective, private, and sustainable way.   The challenge for most people detaching from a marital relationship is to be able to peacefully process the emotional divorce rollercoaster. This rollercoaster consists of extreme feelings of loss, rejection, anger, fear, sorrow, insecurity and anxiety on the one hand, while often mixed with positive feelings of separating from your spouse. The Collaborative Divorce process helps couples separate with more mindfulness and clarity.   In the Collaborative Divorce process, the spouses and their respective Collaborative Attorneys all work together mindfully and appropriately to problem-solve and reach an agreement that meets the needs of everyone involved.  At the beginning of the Collaborative Divorce process, the spouses and their Collaborative Attorneys sign a contract committing to resolve all issues without resorting to litigation or threats of court intervention.  A Collaborative Divorce also addresses the financial issues and emotional rollercoaster, so the couple is highly encouraged to use a financial specialist and mental health professional whom expertly and efficiently support the family through the divorce process.   Additional advantages to the Collaborative Divorce process are that it is faster and more economical for complex divorces, particularly where considerable financial assets and children’s needs are involved.  All relevant information is shared in team meetings, transparently and in a timely manner, so the divorce moves forward swiftly and privately. Hawai’i litigated…

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