ORANGE Cluster :  Mediation and Negotiation

This Cluster provides courses for Family Mediator Development. It includes alternative approaches to Facilitative Mediation, skills in particular areas of practice, and exploring the application of new theories to mediation practice. As a part of this cluster new entrants into family mediation can undertake a qualifying program to achieve National Mediator Accreditation within the Australian Mediator Standards Board.

Mediating Family Law Property

Duration

  • 15 hours total
  • 5 hours in live tutorial, 10 hours in self-paced learning.

Description

This program is specifically designed for Family Mediators and Collaborative Practitioners working in the Australian Family environment and law. Rather than teaching the legal principles, the program will explore models of practice for the negotiation of a division of property. In the program Jon will outline three possible models of negotiation, that can be applied according to the presentation of the separating couple. Ethical challenges of tiny property pools, or refusal to obtain legal advice, and negative property balance sheets will be considered.

The course comprises 10 hours of self-paced learning, that will involve webinars, interviews and demonstration videos, along with readings and other materials.

 Following the training program, students will be encouraged to form small Practice-with- Peers® to engage in role play practice of the three approaches.

Training Approach

  • Two 2.5-hour live tutorials and 10 hours of self-paced learning.
  • THIS PROGRAM CAN BE PROVIDED AS AN IN ROOM COURSE FOR MEDIATOR TEAMS

Entry Requirements

  • Family Mediators and Collaborative Practitioners working under the Australian Family Law

National Mediator Accreditation

Australian Mediator Standards Board

Duration

  • 5 hours
  • 1 hour in live tutorial, up to 4 hours in self-paced learning.

Description

The Australian Mediation Standards Board outlines the registration pathway for mediators who seek to provide service to clients in Australia and who wish to use the title “Nationally Accredited Mediator”.

Through its affiliation with the Institute for Specialist Dispute Resolution, those seeking National Accreditation can apply to be assessed against the Australian Mediation Standards.

Please contact us if you are a mediator and seek to be Nationally Accredited to provide in-room or online mediations with clients in Australia.

Training Approach

  • One 1-hour live tutorial and up to four hours in preparation for and creation of a 1.5 hour mediation training video.

Entry Requirements

  • Family Mediators and Collaborative Practitioners

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New Views on Negotiation: Directive Family Mediation

Duration

  • 7.5 hours total
  • 2.5 hours in live tutorial, 5 hours in self-paced learning.

Description

Directive Family Mediation is necessary with High Conflict Personalities and High Conflict Couples. Facilitative Mediation is limited in its usefulness and we need a new skill set.

The Directive Mediation approach draws together strategies developed at the High Conflict Institute, with the concepts of Narrative Theory in mediation, and the recent literature on Hatred. Directive mediation has three values at its core: High Procedural

Fairness, Low Autonomy, High Substantive Fairness.

Training Approach

  • One 2.5-hour live tutorials and 5 hours of self-paced learning.
  • THIS PROGRAM CAN BE PROVIDED AS AN IN-ROOM COURSE FOR MEDIATOR TEAMS

Entry Requirements

  • Family Mediators and Collaborative Practitioners

New Views on Negotiation: Never Split the Difference

The Application of Chris Voss to the Family Mediation Process

Duration

  • 7.5 hours total
  • 2.5 hours in live tutorial, 5 hours in self-paced learning.

Description

In 2016 Chris Voss wrote Never Split the Difference. This book took the negotiation world by storm as it argued against the age-old Fisher and Uri principles of Getting to Yes. The Negotiation handbook is packed with strategies that come from Voss’s years as an FBI hostage negotiator. 

What if we regard the Parenting Agreement as held hostage by high conflict parents. What if we took some of Voss’s principles and applied them to the parenting dispute; negotiating for the release of the Parenting Agreement and freedom for a family to move forward.

In this Negotiation Workshop we will explore how the Voss principles may be applied to our work in the family law context.

Training Approach

  • One 2.5-hour live tutorials and 5 hours of self-paced learning.
  • THIS PROGRAM CAN BE PROVIDED AS AN IN-ROOM COURSE FOR MEDIATOR TEAMS

Entry Requirements

  • Family Mediators and Collaborative Practitioners

New Views on Negotiation: Narrative Mediation in Separation

Duration

  • 15 hours total
  • 5 hours in live tutorial, 10 hours in self-paced learning.

Description

This 15 hour program brings the concept of working with the narrative to the mediation table. The central element of Narrative is the thought that people live their lives through stories. Creating the space for each individual story or discourse creates the opportunity for new understanding and resolutions.

Narrative mediation is one of the Therapeutic or Relational models of mediation. Unlike facilitative models, the narrative approach places a lower emphasis procedural fairness, a high emphasis on autonomy and self-determination, and a low emphasis on substantive fairness. As such the discussions focuses on the story of each party and the story of the relationship, often giving rise to the space for acknowledgement, and apology.

Training Approach

  • Two 2.5-hour live tutorials and 10 hours of self-paced learning.
  • THIS PROGRAM CAN BE PROVIDED AS AN IN-ROOM COURSE FOR MEDIATOR TEAMS

Entry Requirements

  • Family Mediators and Collaborative Practitioners