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Two Steps Forward One Step Back:

Advanced Collaborative Negotiation Skills to Start and Keep the Process Going

with internationally renowned, award winning collaborative professional , mediator, author and presenter

Forrest "Woody" Mosten

Sponsored by the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council

Please join us for a two day advanced workshop on Advanced Collaborative Negotiation Skills to Start and Keep the Process Going with internationally renowned, award winning collaborative professional, mediator, author and presenter Forrest "Woody" Mosten

Forrest "Woody" Mosten is a collaborative attorney (CFLS) and mediator in Los Angeles who handles matters involving substantial assets and high conflict.  Woody is a prolific author on Collaborative Practice and Mediation.  He is Past Chair of the Mediation Committee for LACBA's Family Law Section, served on the California State Bar ADR Taskforce, and is the LACBA Symposium author of "Representing Clients in Mediation."  Woody is the recipient of the ABA Lawyer as Problem Solver Award and Lifetime Award for Legal Access, the Los Angeles County Bar Conflict Prevention Award, and was named Peacemaker of the Year by the Southern California Mediation Association.  He is the Guest Editor of Family Court Review's Special Issue on Collaborative Practice and he keynotes conferences and conducts trainings for Collaborative Professionals worldwide.  Woody is a member of the faculty at UCLA Scool of Law.

Woody has also handled many high profile collaborative divorces including Roy Disney and Russel Crowe.

Advanced Skills will include:

• How to improve your initial consults and intake process with clients
  
• How to get client's informed consent
• Creative techniques - expanding your toolbox
  
• How to keep the parties at the table when the going gets tough
• Learning the distinction between collaborative negotiations and all other forms of negotiations
• Managing difficult behaviors
• Managing the roller coaster ups and downs of the process
• Understanding techniques through role plays and "try to stump the presenter"
  

Registration by February 17, 2011

$345 (MCLC Members)
$375 (non-MCLC Members)
Registration after February 17, 2011

$375 (MCLC Members)
$405 (non-MCLC Members)

Payment Method: Checks, Credit Card or PayPal

Registration includes lunches and snacks both days, parking permits will be issued after registration.

There is a $75 cancellation fee.

Bette Winnik Scholarship may be available.  Please go to MassCLC.org for more information

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!