Interested in honing your professional skills? The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine School of Law, offers two Professional Skills Programs in 2016: June 23-25 in Malibu, CA, and October 27-29 in Nashville, TN. The Program in Malibu presently offers these courses:
- “STAR” – A Systematic Approach to Mediation Strategies
- Advanced Mediation: Skills and Techniques
- Family Law Mediation – When Time is Not on Your Side
- Mediating Complex Construction Disputes
- Strategic Negotiation Skills
- Using Practical Tools of Mindful Awareness to Improve the Work and Lives of Lawyers, Mediators, Negotiators, Judges, Arbitrators, and Managers
- Preventing Bad Settlement Decisions and Impasse: Using Brain Science, Game Theory, Animated Communication, and Micro-Interventions
- Elder Care Mediation
- “You’re Fired!” Resolving Workplace Disputes through Mediation and Other ADR Processes
- Conflict Resolution Consulting: Using Mediation to Improve Organizational Communications, Conflict Coaching, Team Building, Leadership, Change and Systems Design
- Public Sector Mediation: Skills and Drills
- The Art of Facilitating Dynamic and Difficult Groups
Special course offering this year
The Program in Nashville presently offers these courses:
- “STAR” – A Systematic Approach to Mediation Strategies
- “You’re Fired!” Resolving Workplace Disputes through Mediation and Other ADR Processes
- Strategic Negotiation Skills
- Congregational Peacemaking: Managing Conflict and Congregational Change
- Preventing Bad Settlement Decisions and Impasse: Using Brain Science, Game Theory, Animated Communication, and Micro-Interventions
- Family Law Mediation: When Time is Not on Your Side
- Practical Mindfulness: Clear and Calm in the Heat of Conflict
- Advanced Mediation: Skills and Techniques
- Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
