Nationally Recognized Experts in Dispute Resolution

Scheduled to Present at the

Straus Institute’s 29th Annual Professional Skills Program

Each year, the Straus Institute conducts a 3-day professional skills course at Pepperdine University School of Law – Malibu Campus.

Hundreds of participants from across the country and around the world regularly attend this conference that features a panel of nationally recognized experts in dispute resolution. This comprehensive program provides three days of advanced training for practicing professionals, as well as opportunities to network with other dispute resolution professionals.

Enrollment in each course is limited to ensure a close, interactive relationship among the faculty and participants. Course sessions include lectures, small group discussions, fish bowl exercises and role plays.

This year’s program will be held on .

Ms. Callahan has been invited to co-present with Peter Robinson, the managing director of the Straus Institute, on “STAR: A Systematic Approach to Mediation Strategies.”

This course explores the dynamics of the various stages of mediation and offers both aspiring neutrals and sophisticated advocates with tips, strategies and perspectives for use in each stage. Competence in the aspects of mediation that are not intuitive for a particular mediator marks the difference between the serious professional practitioner and the casual volunteer.

This course will survey how successful mediators use a variety of approaches in the traditional five fundamental stages of a mediation. The emphasis will be on encouraging the exercise of conscious professional judgment and strategies analysis for both mediators and advocates.

Among the topics to be covered are:

  • Stages of a mediation
  • How to convene and open a mediation
  • Facilitating communication
  • Encouraging problem solving and settlement building
  • Utilizing the predictability of distributive bargaining
  • Causes of impasse and how to avoid or navigate through impasse
  • Facilitating closure with and without an agreement
  • Balancing neutrality and fairness
  • Managing emotions
  • Effective case preparation and presentation
  • Ethical concerns of mediators and advocates
  • Mediation advocacy tips
  • How to start and grow a mediation practice
For more information, please visit:

https://law.pepperdine.edu/straus/training-and-conferences/professional-skills-program/malibu

29th Annual Professional Skills Program at the Straus Institite

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