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PRESS LOUISE PHIPPS SENFT TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE FOR MARYLAND’S TOP 100 WOMEN Press Release Baltimore, Maryland (April 1, 2009) – Louise Phipps Senft, President and CEO of Louise Phipps Senft & Associates/Baltimore Mediation, has been named again as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women and selected, as one of 13, as an inductee into the 2009 Circle of Excellence for sustained achievement in Maryland. This is the third time Senft has been chosen as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. She was also recognized in 2004 and 2007. Senft will be honored at an awards ceremony at the Meyerhoff on May 11th, 2009. Maryland’s Top 100 Women Award recognizes high-achieving Maryland women who are making an impact through their leadership, community service and mentoring. Senft is known nationally for her design and delivery of conflict resolution and transformation skills training and mediation for professionals, court systems, companies, contractors, real estate management firms, hospitals, assisted living facilities, higher education and government agencies. Ms. Senft, also an attorney, has provided mediation and facilitation services to thousands of individuals in divorce, employment, business, closely held family businesses, trusts and estates and civil litigation. She is also on faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law and Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation Insight Initiative. Senft’s dedication and active involvement in the mediation field is evidenced by her work in the national think tank, The Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, as Co-Chair of the Baltimore City Bar Association’s first ADR Committee, appointment by Chief Judge Bell to the Maryland Court of Appeals’ ADR Commission and the task force on Professional Responsibility in ADR, leadership as co-architect of the state’s Mediator Grievance Process, service for the national Ethics committee and Training Standards committee of The Association for Conflict Resolution and role as a past President of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution. As a resident of Roland Park, Senft is also an active member of her community. She is Vice President of the Roland Park Civic League whose recent focus is on the preservation of historic green space in Olmstead designed Roland Park as well as the monitoring of other land developments. She is currently an elected member and serves as Treasurer on the executive board of Network 2000 whose mission is to place women on corporate boards and mentor rising female executives, is an elected board member for the Coalition of Geriatric Services in Maryland, and is a founding member of the Tuesday Girls whose mission is to provide peer to peer networking opportunities for women executives and business owners. She has been selected to be part of the 2010 class for Leadership Maryland. Elder Care Mediation in the Limelight ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson recently filmed an Elder-care Mediation piece featuring Louise Phipps Senft. Louise had been working with a family facing the numerous difficulties that people with aging parents face. ABC's Piece on Elder-Care Mediation Through years of sibling estrangement and decades of a somewhat tumultuous relationship with their mother, three siblings committed themselves to the mediation process and were able to come together to galvanize and honor their mother's living will that requested she be kept alive under any circumstances. During this time their mother fell ill and was being kept alive with the assistance of a feeding tube and respirator. Through a series of mediations over three weeks Louise was able to assist the family with decisions pertaining to power of attorney, how to interface with their mother's medical care team and how to listen to and work with each other. This open forum for dialogue allowed the family to work together and request that their mother's care team minimize her pain medication to provide their mother with some coherence, if there was any, to ask if her living will directive was still her wish. A moment of theirs mother's consciousness led to her faintly motioning for removal. Their mother peacefully passed away shortly afterwards. The siblings were happy to have the opportunity to be part of a process that let them wrestle through this difficult time together. Mediation not only allowed this family to strengthen their sibling relationship but also also provided a sense of closure to the parental relationship and everyone felt at peace. ABC's Piece provides insight on the opportunities mediation can present families like this one and others facing difficult conversations and the many stresses found in elder care decision-making.
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