Advanced Mediation: Skills and Techniques
Randy Lowry and Bruce Edwards
Highly interactive, the Advanced Mediation Skills course moves far beyond introductory lectures and simple role-plays to draw upon the vast mediation work of experienced participants in the format of successful executive learning. Much of the course will consist of comparing participants' techniques and approaches to common problems in mediation. The course will be limited in enrollment.
Participants are accepted through application. They must have completed acceptable basic mediation training, and have significant experience as a mediator.
What you will learn:
- The "STAR" approach to mediation
- Stages in complex mediation
- Tasks in resolving difficult cases
- Activities of experienced mediators in moving beyond impasse
- Results that experienced mediators seek beyond just a settlement
- The best advice from colleagues in the field who are experienced and have financially successful practices
- What separates the trained mediator with no cases from the one who is in demand
- What prominent mediation organizations tell panelists about procedures and practices
L. Randolph Lowry is president of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was the founder of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and a professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law for twenty years until assuming the Lipscomb presidency in the fall of 2005. He works as a conflict management consultant to one of the nation's largest hospital companies, and for five years has served as chairman of the board for two non-profit health care organizations. A lawyer, active mediator, consultant, and internationally recognized educator, he is also on the faculty at Vermont Law School and City University in Hong Kong.
Bruce Edwards is one of JAMS/Endispute's most experienced attorney mediators. He has extensive expertise in handling complex, multiparty cases with emphasis on construction, business, environmental, and traumatic personal injury matters. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis, and his law degree from Hastings College of Law. Edwards cofounded the Bates Edwards Group in 1991 (which merged with JAMS/Endispute in 1994) after a highly successful career as a litigation partner with the San Francisco office of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold. He has mediated over 4,000 disputes in 42 states since 1986.Edwards teaches advanced mediation courses in the United States and Western Europe.