Baltimore Mediation

December 40-Hour Mediation Training
2014-12-15 09:00 - 2014-12-19 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Inn at the Colonnade, 4 W University Pkwy, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Click here to register For more information, call our office at (443) 524-0833 or send us an email at louise@baltimoremediation.com.

A 40-Hour Immersion in the Baltimore Mediation Core Curriculum

Description:

This is a certificated 40-hour mediation training, a comprehensive immersion in our Mediation Core Curriculum designed to teach you everything you need to know to start mediating, either professionally or for daily use and practice. We’ll focus on mediation, conflict transformation and resolution theory and skills, taking plenty of time over the five day training to instruct, discuss and reinforce the fundamental mediator skills and responsibilities, supported by group work, role-plays and directed feedback from trained mediators. The course emphasizes the following:

Understanding theory and practice as mediators, shapers of policy, academics, and people: the mediation process and your own type and style
Bringing Clients to the Table
Dealing with Strong Emotions
Working with and through Impasse
Fostering Communication
Identifying Empowerment and Recognition Opportunities
Self-Awareness Inventory & Development
Hands-on conflict intervention skills necessary to mediate
Mediator Standards of Practice and Ethics
Individual feedback from trainers addressing participants’
specific strengths and areas for continued development and excellence.

Dates: Monday through Friday, December 15-19, 2014 (every day from 9 am – 5:00 pm)

Trainers: Louise Phipps Senft, Esq.

Course Fee: $1450

What’s Included: 40-hour certificated courses held over a period of five consecutive days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday), training manual and materials.

For more information, call Baltimore Mediation, 443-524-0833. Enrollment is limited and on a first-come, first serve basis. To guarantee your reservation, Reservation Form and payment must be received by December 1, 2014. Thereafter, call for availability.

A certificate noting 40 hours of attendance will be provided at the end of training. It may be used to apply for state circuit court rosters of approved mediators and for continuing education credits from the participant’s accrediting institution.

This training is approved by and/or a certificate of successful completion of this training may be used to satisfy the requirements of the following:

The Maryland Circuit Courts
The United States government and all federal agency rosters
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners
Most other states which have 20, 40 or 60 hour mediation training requirements.

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel their registration at least 15 business days prior to the start date of the training to be entitled to a full refund. Cancellations received 7 business days prior to the start date of the training to be entitled to a 50% refund. Cancellations received less than 7 business day prior to the start date will not be subject to any refund. This policy is due to the high level of customization each of our programs is subject to, based on the number of people that have registered and space limitations.

Testimonials:

“I cannot thank you enough for the indispensable life and professional learnings you shared with us over the five-day Fundamental Mediation training. Drawing on all your considerable skills as a communicator, mediator, coach, and trainer, you imparted to us, in an incredibly creative variety of ways, the specific attitudes and skills required to help people transform conflict by improving the quality of their interactions.

There was never a dull moment, and the long days went by like magic. In all our multiple interactions, opportunities for Recognition and Empowerment were seized on at every turn. You truly practice what you preach!

As a mediator and trainer involved in bringing transformational mediation to the workplace in Quebec, I come away strengthened in my understanding, not only of the theoretical underpinnings, but of the hands-on, nuts-and-bolts, down-to-earth specific moves of this powerful way to be and interact with people in conflict.” – John Peter Weldon, Mediator, Trainer, and Lawyer

“The transformative approach gives the power back to parties. An empowered person can effectuate such positive change. The training I received was as transformative as the process itself.” – Marielle V. Peck, Attorney/Mediator, MVP LAW & MEDIATION PLLC

“There is so much to learn and so many ways to learn it. This Conflict Transformation Skills Workshop truly brings it all together for me. Certainly emotions are important to getting to yes. Keep up the great work in training mediators.” – Pam Booker, Office of Learning, Office of the Associate Commissioner

“If you don’t get it, you really won’t Get It. Any other mediation Is not the same. Baltimore Mediation’s Mediation and Conflict Transformation Skills Training will not only change the way you view mediation, but the way you view yourself and others.” Kieva Bankins, MSW (Program Analyst/Trainer), Maryland Department of Human Resources, Family Investment Administration, Office of Programs, Bureau of Policy, Training & Research

“I believe this could cause a major shift in our justice system and perhaps cultures in general. The power I have in this is that I can let the method of transformative mediation begin with me.” – Valerie Broome, OEDB Program Specialist at FSIS

“Beautiful tools, applicable to both professional and daily life. I feel like I’ve been let in on a secret that successful people all knew.” – Ken Fenley, Attorney at Law

“People get stuck in their difficulties yet they have what’s needed to emerge from within.” – Edie Kinsley

Coaching Session with Bill Senft
2014-12-12 | Baltimore Mediation Offices, 4502 Schenley Rd, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
An Intensive Coaching Session with Bill Senft by telephone for up to 1 hour.

This service is for anyone facing difficult decisions, dealing with difficult people, or struggling internally with how to overcome personal challenges.

The challenges you face are uniquely yours, there are no easy answers, and Bill provides a confidential process to help you figure out what path to choose.

Bill is a mediator and will listen to you and help you get clear. He is an attorney and CPA and he will give you information and help you figure out what information you might need to help you make good decisions.

Bill is an expert in negotiation, having taught Negotiation courses in MBA programs at Johns Hopkins and Loyola University, and will help you get clear about your options in dealing with others. In addition, he is an ordained minister in the Catholic Church and offers a spiritual perspective and guidance to help you think through ethical issues and pay attention to the desires of your soul.

Click here to register For more information, call our office at (443) 524-0833 or email bill@baltimoremediation.com. After registering for the session online, please call or email to set up the specific time for your session. Sessions booked only may be cancelled with minimum 24 hours notice.

With a better understanding of yourself and your options, you can make better decisions.

October 40-Hour Mediation Training
2014-10-20 09:00 - 2014-10-24 17:00 | The Inn at The Colonnade, 4 W University Pkwy., Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Click here to register For more information, call our office at (443) 524-0833 or send us an email at louise@baltimoremediation.com.

A 40-Hour Training focusing on Sources of Conflict and a Systems Approach

Description:

This is a certificated 40-hour mediation training, part of our Mediation Core Curriculum designed to teach you everything you need to know to start mediating, either professionally or for daily use and practice. We’ll focus on mediation, conflict transformation and resolution theory and skills, with an emphasis on sources of conflict and a systems approach to conflict and intervention. The course emphasizes the following:

Understanding theory and practice as mediators, shapers of policy and academics: the mediation process and your own type and style
Explain conflict systems and the value of a relational approach
Hands-on conflict intervention skills necessary to mediate
Communication skills and conflict transformation how-to’s
Individual feedback from trainers addressing participants’ specific strengths and areas for continued development and excellence.

Dates: Monday, October 20 – Friday, October 24 – each day (9am – 5:00pm)

Trainers: Louise Phipps Senft, Esq.

Course Fee: $1450

What’s Included: 40-hour certificated courses held over a period of five consecutive days (Monday – Friday), training manual and materials.

For more information, call Baltimore Mediation, 443-524-0833. Enrollment is limited and on a first-come, first serve basis. To guarantee your reservation, Reservation Form and payment must be received by October 15, 2014. Thereafter, call for availability.

September 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
2014-09-30 08:30 - 16:30 | Notre Dame of Maryland University, 4701 N Charles St, Baltimore, 21212
An 8-Hour Exploration of the Enneagram as a tool for understanding Personal Reactivity and Conflict

Click here to register
For more information, call our office at (443) 524-0833 or send us an email at louise@baltimoremediation.com.

The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types. It is meant to help us understand ourselves, the people in our lives, and our habits of mind and reactivity in conflict and otherwise.

Each of the nine personality profiles describes a distinct and fundamentally different pattern of thinking, feeling and acting, offering profound insight about why we behave the way we do, how we can change, and a precise path to psychological and spiritual freedom.

Self-awareness is greatly heightened by working with our own type’s leading strengths and unrecognized blind spots. Taught in the company of others, this system also generates compassion and relationship skills with people who experience the world in a very different way.

How well we are in tune with our internal state, or how self-aware we are, has a strong influence on how we ‘do’ conflict. By helping us to understand who we are, the Enneagram improves our self-awareness.

With a better understanding of our conscious motivations, we can better handle conflict.

This training is approved by and/or a certificate of successful completion of this training may be used to satisfy the requirements of the following:

The Association of Conflict Resolution
The Federal Shared Neutrals Program
The Maryland Circuit Courts
The MACRO Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence
The Maryland Board of Social Examiners

Coaching Session with Bill Senft
2014-09-04, 2014-08-18 | Baltimore Mediation Offices, 4502 Schenley Rd, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
An Intensive Coaching Session with Bill Senft by telephone for up to 1 hour.

This service is for anyone facing difficult decisions, dealing with difficult people, or struggling internally with how to overcome personal challenges.

The challenges you face are uniquely yours, there are no easy answers, and Bill provides a confidential process to help you figure out what path to choose.

Bill is a mediator and will listen to you and help you get clear. He is an attorney and CPA and he will give you information and help you figure out what information you might need to help you make good decisions.

Bill is an expert in negotiation, having taught Negotiation courses in MBA programs at Johns Hopkins and Loyola University, and will help you get clear about your options in dealing with others. In addition, he is an ordained minister in the Catholic Church and offers a spiritual perspective and guidance to help you think through ethical issues and pay attention to the desires of your soul.

Click here to register For more information, call our office at (443) 524-0833 or email bill@baltimoremediation.com. After registering for the session online, please call or email to set up the specific time for your session.

With a better understanding of yourself and your options, you can make better decisions.

July 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
2014-07-24 08:30 - 16:30 | Notre Dame of Maryland University, 4701 N Charles St, Baltimore, 21212
An 8-Hour Introduction to the Enneagram, Conflict and Self-Awareness

Click here to register
For more information, call our office at (443) 524-0833 or send us an email at louise@baltimoremediation.com.

The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types. It is meant to help us understand ourselves, the people in our lives, and our habits of mind and reactivity in conflict and otherwise.

Each of the nine personality profiles describes a distinct and fundamentally different pattern of thinking, feeling and acting, offering profound insight about why we behave the way we do, how we can change, and a precise path to psychological and spiritual freedom.

Self-awareness is greatly heightened by working with our own type’s leading strengths and unrecognized blind spots. Taught in the company of others, this system also generates compassion and relationship skills with people who experience the world in a very different way.

How well we are in tune with our internal state, or how self-aware we are, has a strong influence on how we ‘do’ conflict. By helping us to understand who we are, the Enneagram improves our self-awareness.

With a better understanding of our conscious motivations, we can better handle conflict.

This training is approved by and/or a certificate of successful completion of this training may be used to satisfy the requirements of the following:

The Association of Conflict Resolution
The Federal Shared Neutrals Program
The Maryland Circuit Courts
The MACRO Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence
The Maryland Board of Social Examiners

May 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
2014-05-21 09:00 - 17:00 | PSA Insurance and Financial Services, 11311 McCormick Road, 5th Floor, Hunt Valley, MD, 21031, United States
An 8-Hour Introduction to the Enneagram, Conflict and Self-Awareness

The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types set in a non-sectarian spiritual framework. It is meant to help us understand ourselves, the people in our lives, and our relationship to the greater realities that guide human evolution. Louise Phipps Senft includes the Enneagram in the Baltimore Mediation curriculum as a tool to foster self-awareness and to reduce personal reactivity. We offer multiple certificated Enneagram workshops throughout the year, each with an emphasis on a different aspect of the mediation process. Get more information about this and the other Ennegram courses below:

May 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
July 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
December 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop

For more information, give us a call at (443) 524-0833 or email us at louise@baltimoremediation.com

Click here to register

Louise Phipps Senft presents on "How to Transform Your Divorce Mediation Practice" to the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation
2014-05-03 09:00 - 10:30 | Unnamed Venue, 585 Stewart Ave #610, Garden City, New York City, NY, 11530, United States

Louise Phipps Senft speaks at Howard Bank's Towson, Maryland Branch
2014-04-30 08:00 - 09:00 | Howard Bank, Baltimore, MD, United States

Louise Phipps Senft speaks at Women President Organization (WPO) Annual Conference
2014-04-24 10:45 - 12:15 | The Sheraton Hotel New Orleans, 500 Canal St. New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
Louise Phipps Senft, Baltimore Mediation founder and CEO, will be addressing, on April 24, members of a premier women leadership organization – WPO – on topics related to handling conflict and overcoming barriers, related to professional and personal issues, balancing life-styles and dealing with societal prejudice around women in top management positions. Louise is a member of WPO since 2012.

Happening every year, since its foundation, the WPO conference is an educational and informational, but also a networking meeting, designed for women who lead multi-million dollar companies around the US. The organization itself is dedicated to empowering women and giving them resources through peer advisory groups, local area facilitators and monthly meetings. With over 100 chapters around the world, this niche non-profit has gained momentum and a lot of recognition in the business world, as a powerful group who connects powerful women.

Here are some of the great minds who lead it http://womenpresidentsorg.com/node/171.

Louise Phipps Senft speaks at Nonprofit Learning Point's 'Emerging Leaders Program'
2014-04-14 13:00 - 16:00 | Unnamed Venue, Richmond, VA, United States

Louise Phipps Senft Teaching at the Enneagram Teacher Certification Program, Bergamo Center
2014-03-07 - 2014-03-09, 2013-09-27 08:00 - 2013-09-30 17:00 | Bergamo Center, Dayton, OH, United States
Organized by the Enneagram Worldwide, this certification program is intended for those who want to become certified Enneagram teachers in the narrative tradition.

More information can be found here: http://www.enneagramworldwide.com/enneagram-teacher-certification/overview/

Discover the Enneagram and Register for our next Enneagram of Personality Workshop

The Enneagram is a powerful and dynamic personality system that describes nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking, feeling and acting.

The word “ennea” is Greek for nine and “gram” means model or figure. Hence, the Enneagram is a diagram or star with nine points representing the nine personality patterns. Each of these nine patterns is based on an explicit set of perceptual filters that determine our worldview. Underneath each of the nine patterns is a basic proposition or belief about what you need in life for survival and satisfaction.

As you discover your personality type and the underlying basic proposition, you also will discover what motivates you, your coping strategy and keys to personal development.

February 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training
2014-02-24 09:00 - 2014-02-28 17:30 | The Inn at the Colonnade, 4 W University Pkwy, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
This is a certificated 40-hour basic mediation training, a comprehensive immersion in our Mediation Core Curriculum designed to teach you everything you need to know to start mediating, either professionally or for daily use and practice. Throughout the year, Baltimore Mediation offers a series of 20- and 40-hour basic trainings in conflict transformation and mediation that you can take in any order or combination to build your mediation experience and meet your training requirements for mediating professionally. You can find out more about this and other basic trainings below:

February 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training
June 20-Hour Basic Mediation Training
October 20-Hour Basic Mediation Training
December 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training

Click here to register. For more information, call our office at (443) 524-0833 or send us an email at louise@baltimoremediation.com.

Louise Speaks at the Better Aging Forum in Richmond Va
2014-02-19 11:30 - 13:00 | Richmond, VA, Richmond, VA, United States
Louise discusses challenges and opportunities in mediating eldercare cases for the Better Aging Forum, a group of professional advisors that work with elder issues.

Louise Phipps Senft to conduct the Noon Time Mindfulness Moment Guided Telephone Meditation
2014-02-18 12:00 - 12:30 | Unnamed Venue, MD, United States
Self-awareness in mediators can be cultivated through meditation. On Tuesdays during February please join us for a 15 minutes, lightly guided telephone meditation followed by a brief time for comments and questions. The entire call will last no more than 30 minutes. These guided meditations are designed for all experience levels, from those who have never tried meditation to those with more experience.

The dates and facilitator for the sessions are as follows:

Tuesday, February 4 Rachel Wohl

Tuesday, February 11 Rachel Wohl

Tuesday, February 18 Louise Phipps Senft

Tuesday, February 25 Ed Ketchen

January 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop: Family Relations
2014-01-30 08:30 - 16:30 | PSA Insurance and Financial Services, 11311 McCormick Road, 5th Floor, Hunt Valley, MD, 21031, United States
An 8-Hour Exploration of Family Relations through the Enneagram The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types. It helps us understand ourselves, the people in our lives, and our relationship to the people we have to interact with daily and, in the case of family members, over the course of a lifetime. Louise Phipps Senft includes the Enneagram in the Baltimore Mediation curriculum as a tool to foster self-awareness and to reduce personal reactivity. We offer multiple certificated Enneagram workshops throughout the year, each with an emphasis on a different aspect of the mediation process. Get more information about this and the other Ennegram courses below:

May 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
July 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
December 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop

Click here to register For more information, call our office at (443) 524-0833 or send us an email at louise@baltimoremediation.com.

Louise Phipps Senft Speaks at the Tri-Delta Luncheon
2014-01-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Unnamed Venue, Baltimore, MD, United States

January 20-Hour Advanced Mediation Training: Custody, Visitation & Child Support
2014-01-22 17:00 - 2014-01-24 17:30 | The Inn at the Colonnade, 4 W University Pkwy, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Conflict Transformation: A 20-Hour Training in Mediation & Custody, Visitation and Child Support for Advanced Practitioners

For more information click here.

This is a certificated 20-hour advanced mediation training. Much of the content in this course builds on what you learn in our basic mediation trainings, which you can learn more about here. If you’re looking for more advanced trainings, check here.

To register, please call our office at (443) 524-0833, send us an email at louise@baltimoremediation.com or go Click here to register

December 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training
2013-12-16 09:00 - 2013-12-20 17:30 | The Inn at the Colonnade, 4 W University Pkwy, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
This is a certificated 40-hour basic mediation training, a comprehensive immersion in our Mediation Core Curriculum designed to teach you everything you need to know to start mediating, either professionally or for daily use and practice. Throughout the year, Baltimore Mediation offers a series of 20- and 40-hour basic trainings in conflict transformation and mediation that you can take in any order or combination to build your mediation experience and meet your training requirements for mediating professionally. You can find out more about this and other basic trainings below:

February 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training
June 20-Hour Basic Mediation Training
October 20-Hour Basic Mediation Training
December 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training

For more information, call us at (443) 524-0833 or email us at louise@baltimoremediation.com

Click here to register

Louise Phipps Senft Speaks at the Illinois 2013 Governor's Conference on Aging
2013-12-13 08:00 - 17:00 | Chicago Marriott Downtown, 540 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60611, United States

December 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
2013-12-10 09:00 - 17:00 | PSA Insurance and Financial Services, 11311 McCormick Road, 5th Floor, Hunt Valley, MD, 21031, United States
An 8-Hour Exploration of the Enneagram as a tool for understanding Personal Reactivity and Family Relations

Sorry, this session is full and we cannot accept further registrants at this time. Look out for our other Enneagram Workshops!

The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types set in a non-sectarian spiritual framework. It is meant to help us understand ourselves, the people in our lives, and our relationship to the greater realities that guide human evolution. Louise Phipps Senft includes the Enneagram in the Baltimore Mediation curriculum as a tool to foster self-awareness and to reduce personal reactivity. We offer multiple certificated Enneagram workshops throughout the year, each with an emphasis on a different aspect of the mediation process. Get more information about this and the other Ennegram courses below:

May 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
July 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop
December 8-Hour Enneagram Workshop

For more information, give us a call at (443) 524-0833 or email us at louise@baltimoremediation.com

To Register, click here.

December 40-Hour Advanced Mediation Training
2013-12-02 08:30 - 2013-12-06 17:00 | Stoll Keenon Ogden, 300 W Vine St., Lexington, KY, United States
Conflict Transformation: A 40-Hour Advanced Mediation and Conflict Transformation Skills Training

The Kentucky Bar Association in collaboration with Baltimore Mediation, is once again offering an advanced 40-hour mediation training in Lexington, Kentucky, taught by Louise Phipps Senft.

This is a certificated 20-hour advanced mediation training. Much of the content in this course builds on what you learn in our basic mediation trainings, which you can learn more about here. If you’re looking for more advanced trainings, check here.

Training Focus
• Understand the underlying conflict theories behind mediation practice.
• Learn the latest in neuroscience and its relevance for mediation.
• Understand fundamental transformative mediation skills and theory.
• Deal with intense emotions and working with resistance.
• Enhance self-awareness and controlling personal reactions.
• Learn how to receive and give constructive feedback.
• Understand Mediator’s Guidelines and Ethical Standards of Conduct.
• Experience high-tech, simultaneous live feedback from master coach in
advanced teaching forum.

Individuals who complete the training will receive a certificate recognized by the Association for Conflict Resolution, the Federal Shared Neutrals Program and the Office of Mediation of the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts.

Continuing Mediation Education and Continuing Legal Education credits will be available.

To register, please contact Carol Paisley at:
Attn: Office of Mediation
Administrative Office of the Courts
100 Millcreek Park, Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone 502-573-2350, ext. 50713  Fax 502-573-0343
carolpaisley@kycourts.net

Louise speaks at Ray Rice's Links of Kindness Anti-Bullying Rally
2013-11-22 18:00 - 21:00 | SECU Arena at Towson University, Auburn Drive, Towson, MD, 21252, United States
Join us this Friday to hear Raven’s star Ray Rice, the first lady of Maryland Katie O’Malley, county executive of Howard County Ken Ulman, and our own Louise Phipps Senft speak at Ray Rice’s Links of Kindness Anti-Bullying Event at the SECU Arena on Towson University Campus from 6:00PM – 9:00PM, November 22, 2013. Louise will be speaking on the value of the transformative process in addressing the causes and the emotional consequences of bullying.

Be Our Guest and Visit Baltimore Mediation’s Information Booth at the Accelerent Business Breakfast, The Grand Lodge of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2013-11-14 07:00 - 09:00 | The Grand Lodge of Maryland, 304 International Circle, Cockeysville, MD, 21030, United States
Louise Phipps Senft invites you to be one of our guests at the Accelerent Breakfast. RSVP necessary. Call Baltimore Mediation at 443-524-0833.

With over 50 exclusive business partners from different sectors of the market, Accelerent Baltimore Chapter aims at helping local entrepreneurs with their growth efforts, by establishing connections and providing them with useful resources, such as consulting services.

Each month Accelerent organizes an official breakfast, where partners can bring up to 5 guests and encourage them to network with other business executives. The breakfast, hosted by The Grand Lodge of Maryland and catered by Chef’s Expressions, gathers together almost 300 people every first or second Wednesday of the month in a casual yet professional environment, where partners can expose their business services and products in an official expo.

All breakfast events are complemented by a professional speaker who will seek to motivate parteners and their guests to strive for bigger and better for their businesses.

More information about Accelerent here.

Louise Phipps Senft - Guest at CBS Radio Baltimore's Top Rated Weekend Program
2013-10-25 09:00 - 10:00 | CBS Radio, Baltimore
CBS Radio 105.7FM from 9 am, for Baltimore’s Top Rated Weekend Program hosted by Carl Delmont

October 20-Hour Basic Mediation Training
2013-10-23 17:00 - 2013-10-25 17:30 | The Inn at the Colonnade, 4 W University Pkwy, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
This is a certificated 20-hour basic mediation training, part of our Mediation Core Curriculum designed to teach you everything you need to know to start mediating, either professionally or for daily use and practice. Throughout the year, Baltimore Mediation offers a series of 20- and 40-hour basic trainings in conflict transformation and mediation that you can take in any order or combination to build your mediation experience and meet your training requirements for mediating professionally. You can find out more about this and other basic trainings below:

February 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training
June 20-Hour Basic Mediation Training
October 20-Hour Basic Mediation Training
December 40-Hour Basic Mediation Training

For more information, call us at (443) 524-0833 or email us at louise@baltimoremediation.com

Click here to register

ACR Family and Elder Section Retreat
2013-10-11 08:30 - 2013-10-12 19:30 | Hilton, 1001 Marquette Ave S, MN, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
Creative Reflection on ACR Practice to Deepen Work

The ACR Family Section will gather for two fun days, following the ACR Annual Conference, in order to share thoughts, ideas and reflections about how to improve and grow the work and impact of section, and section members.

Among those presenting will be Michelle LeBaron, Kay Branis and Sue Bronson.

More information here.

Michelle LeBaron joined the University of British Columbia Law Faculty in 2003 as a full
professor and was Director of the UBC Program on Dispute Resolution from 2003-2012. From
1993-2003, she taught at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and the Women’s
Studies program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Prior to moving to the US, she
directed the Multiculturalism and Dispute Resolution Project at the University of Victoria.
Professor LeBaron has lectured and consulted around the world on intercultural conflict
resolution, and has practised as a family law and commercial mediator. She was called to the Bar
of British Columbia in 1982 after articling at Campney and Murphy in Vancouver.
Professor LeBaron’s research focuses on how the arts can foster belonging and social cohesion
across cultural and worldview differences. Her current project investigates how dance,
movement and kinesthetic awareness can enhance practitioners’ and parties’ capacities to
transform conflict and is the subject of a forthcoming book. Professor LeBaron’s most recent
book is Conflict Across Cultures, with co-editor Venashri Pillay of ACCORD (South Africa) and
colleagues from three other world regions. She has also published on creativity, intuition,
spirituality and intercultural relations.

Kay Pranis teaches and writes about the dialog process known as ‘peacemaking circles.’ Kay learned
about peacemaking circles in her work in restorative justice in the mid-90s Her initial teachers in the
circle work were Barry Stuart, a judge in Yukon, Canada, and Mark Wedge and Harold Gatensby, First
Nations people of Yukon. Since that initial exposure to the use of peacemaking circles in the justice
system Kay has been involved in developing the use of peacemaking circles in schools, social services,
churches, families, museums, universities, municipal planning and workplaces.
Kay has authored or co-authored several books about circles: Peacemaking Circles – From Crime to
Community; The Little Book of Circle Processes – A New/Old Approach to Peacemaking; Doing
Democracy with Circles – Engaging Communities in Public Planning; Heart of Hope – A Guide for Using
Peacemaking Circles to Develop Emotional Literacy, Promote Healing & Build Healthy Relationships.
Kay works primarily as an independent trainer in the peacemaking circle process. She is also an adjunct
professor at Simon Fraser University, Eastern Mennonite University and Southwest Minnesota State
University.
Kay has a particular interest in the use of circles to support social justice efforts addressing racial,
economic, class and gender inequities. That interest includes the use of peacemaking circles to
understand and respond to historical harms to groups of people. The peacemaking circle process has
been a source of energy, inspiration and continuous learning for Kay for the past 15 years.

Be Our Guest and Visit Baltimore Mediation’s Information Booth, Accelerent Business Breakfast, The Grand Lodge of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2013-10-10 07:00 - 09:00 | The Grand Lodge of Maryland, 304 International Circle, Cockeysville, MD, 21030, United States
