CPR Institute Outstanding Book Award

Challenging Conflict:
Mediation Through Understanding

By Gary Friedman and Jack Himmelstein
Published by the American Bar Association in cooperation with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
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Welcome

Do you work with people in conflict? 

Are you looking for a different way to help your clients find the best solution?

 
Through our understanding-based mediation and conflict resolution training programs, we help you to:
 
►Learn how to work with conflict in a different, deeper way.
 
►Challenge the traditional terms of conflict that can keep parties and professionals trapped in its grasp—like those of right v. wrong or winning v. losing.
 
►Understand the power of using conflict constructively.
 
►Listen in order to develop a multi-layered understanding of the parties, their conflict and of yourself as you support them in working it through.
 
►Create a safe place for parties to talk about the underlying issues in a productive and constructive manner to reach solutions that work.
 
►Support disputing parties to make informed decisions together based on a deeper understanding of what is important and meaningful to them.
 
►Encourage parties to tap into compassion and caring in the face of conflict.
 
►Empower parties to control the outcome in a meaningful, beneficial way.
 
►Enhance and enrich your own life as well as the lives of those with whom you are engaged.

 


Saving the Last Dance: Mediation through Understanding

See a demonstration video of our Understanding-Based mediation model as applied to a highly-charged business dispute.  

The video, produced in collaboration with the Harvard Program on Negotiation, alternates between excerpts from the mediation itself and an educational commentary.

Read more and watch the video

  


                    UPCOMING

MEDIATION INTENSIVE TRAININGS

Mediation Intensive Training - April 14-18, California

Mediation Intensive Training - April 28-May 2, New York

Mediation Intensive Training - October 6-10, California

Mediation Intensive Training - Nov 12-14,19-20, New York

Please click on the listings in the right- and left-hand columns for more information about these trainings.

 

 

 We invite you to explore our website to learn more about our programs and to register online for upcoming trainings.  

 

 

 

 

 

New York Events

Mediation Support & Development Group II

Midtown Manhattan
Feb 11, 2010

Mediation Support & Development Group I

Midtown Manhattan
Feb 16, 2010

Collaborative Practice Support and Development Group

Westchester County
Feb 22, 2010

Collaborative Practice Support & Development Group

Midtown Manhattan
Mar 8, 2010

Mediation Support and Development Group II

Midtown Manhattan
Mar 11, 2010

Self Reflection in Action for Conflict Professionals: Bringing the Depth of Who We Are to Our Work (Advanced Program)

Brooklyn, NY
Mar 14, 2010

Collaborative Practice Support and Development Group

Westchester County
Mar 15, 2010

Collaborative Practice Support and Development Group

Westchester County
Apr 12, 2010

Mediation Support & Development Group II

Midtown Manhattan
Apr 15, 2010

Collaborative Practice Support & Development Group

Midtown Manhattan
Apr 19, 2010

Mediation Support & Development Group I

Midtown Manhattan
Apr 20, 2010

MEDIATION INTENSIVE TRAINING APR 28-MAY 2, 2010

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY
Apr 28, 2010

Collaborative Practice Support and Development Group

Westchester County NY
May 17, 2010

Mediation Support & Development Group I

Midtown Manhattan
May 25, 2010

Collaborative Practice Support & Development Group

Midtown Manhattan
May 27, 2010

Self Reflection in Action for Conflict Professionals: Bringing the Depth of Who We Are to our Work (Advanced Program) - June 3-5, 2010

Westchester County, NY
Jun 3, 2010

Collaborative Practice Support & Development Group

Westchester County, NY
Jun 21, 2010

Mediation Support & Development Group I

Midtown Manhattan
Jun 29, 2010

MEDIATION INTENSIVE TRAINING NOV 12 -14 & 19 -20, 2010

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY
Nov 12, 2010
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