This interactive session will address issues such as dealing with power imbalance, managing third parties and attorneys; and dealing with tough ethical dilemmas in mediation. The format will include discussion and fishbowl role play demonstration by the instructor.
Ms. Zumeta is a nationally-renowned mediator and mediation trainer. She is on the Editorial Board of the ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine and is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University School of Law’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Cooley Law School. She has been mediating since 1981 and is the recipient of the the Family Mediation Council-Michigan Liftetime Achievement in Mediation Award; the National Education Association/Saturn Corporation Award for Union-Management Collaboration; the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution; and the Kumba Award from the National Conference on Minorities in ADR.
We are requesting CLEs for attorneys and CEUs for counselors, social workers, and marriage & family therapists.