One-Day Continuing Mediator Education (CME) Workshops

• 8 hours of Continuing Mediator Education - half of your CME requirement
  
• Information critical to your effectiveness and success as a mediator
  
• An excellent networking opportunity
  
• Special tracks for Advanced Mediation Practice Issues and Domestic Violence
  
• 4 hours of ethics and one hour of diversity
  
• 8 hours of CLER for Attorneys, including 4 of ethics
  
• 7 hours of CEUs for Mental Health Professionals

Workshops are held 9:30am-5:30pm

The fee for each workshop is $169.00. This fees includes continental breakfast, afternoon snack and all written materials.

                                      2009 Schedule (6-mo):
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• January 31, 2009, Program-A, Nova S.E. Univ, Ft Lauderdale
  
• February 28, 2009, Program-B, Nova S.E. University-Orlando
  
• March 28, 2009, Program-C, Boca Raton Library, Boca Raton
  
• April 11, 2009, Program-A, Nova S.E. Univ., Ft Lauderdale
  
• May 2, 2009, Program-B, Nova S.E. Univ., Ft Lauderdale
  
• June 13, 2009, Program-C, Ft Myers
  

While each program provides 4 hours of ethics and 2 hours of domestic violence or if you prefer, 2 hours of advanced mediation practices

and 1 hour of Diversity, Programs A, B, and C are completely different and distinct workshops. Each has a different agenda, speakers, course content, etc.

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Agenda

Program-A
"Mediation:  Be The Best You Can Be

9:30am-5:30pm

January 31 , Ft Lauderdale
April 11, Ft Lauderdale

July 18, Boca Raton

9:30-1:00       Ethics: Statutory, Rule & MEAC updates
                    Take the the Ethical Challenge?

1:00-2:00       Lunch on your own

2:00-2:50       Diversity: How to Effectively Mediate in a Multicultural

                    World

2:50-3:40       Be the Best You Can Be: What is in YOUR Toolbox?

3:50-4:00       Afternoon Snack Break

3:50-5:30       Domestic Violence Track: What Every Practitioner REALLY

                    Needs To Know—Guest Speaker: Steven Alexander, Ph.D
                                 or
                    Civil Track: Want to Have Your Participants Be More

Agenda

Program-B
"Mediation:  Go to the Winner's Circle"

9:30am-5:30pm

February 28, Orlando
May 2, Ft Lauderdale

9:30-1:00          Ethics: Updates and Delectable, Delerious, Delicious

                        Dilemmas!! 

                      
1:00-2:00          Lunch on your own

2:00-2:50          Diversity: What is your Diversity I.Q?

2:50-3:40          Getting to Yes by Getting Past the Emotions--Guest

                        Speaker: Robin Caral Shaw, Esq.

3:40-3:50            Afternoon Snack Break

3:50-5:30          Domestic Violence: Latest Information from the

                        Experts, Self Determination and other issues

                                                                or         
                       Civil Track: Risk Analysis--Guest Speaker: Al Capp, Esq

Agenda

Program-C
"Mediation: Methods, Magic and More”

9:30am-5:30pm

March 28, Boca Raton

June 13, Ft Myers

9:30-1:00          Ethics: Updates and The Case of the Daffy Dentist

1:00-2:00          Lunch on your own

2:00-2:50          Diversity: Multiculturalism and Mediation: Where are we                         now? Guest Speaker: Kirk Rascoe, J.D 

2:50-3:40          Latest Marketing Strategies: What Works, What Doesn’t

3:40-3:50          Afternoon Snack Break

3:50-5:30          Domestic Violence: Dialogues, Observations and the
                       Media
                                       or
                       Civil Track: Case Study of a Mediaton: Where did they

                       go Wrong??

Attorneys

Attorneys will receive 8 CLER credits, including 4 in ethics, for attending the CME Workshop.

Psychologists & Mental Health Professionals

Mental Health Professionals will earn 8 hours of Continuing Education, provided through Transformations, Inc. as approved by the Florida Department of Health for LCSW, LMHC, and LMFT, the Florida Office of School Psychology for School Psychologists, and the Florida Board of Psychology for Psychologists (BAP #860, Exp. 3/2009).

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