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ERICKSON MEDIATION INSTITUTE
44 HOUR DIVORCE MEDIATION TRAINING
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
 
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Join Erickson Mediation Institute for our 2008, 44-hour divorce mediation training conference featuring lectures, interactive exercises, role-playing, along with question and answer periods each day.
 
EVENT OVERVIEW
  • Led by Steve Erickson and Marilyn McKnight, each with 30 years of mediation experience
  • Presentations and discussions that will cover all aspects of divorce and family mediation.
  • Lecture, interactive exercises, role-playing, and discussion all combine to provide a diverse learning environment.
  • "Mediating in the Shadow of Domestic Violence" incorporated into this training, which addresses the issues of mediating divorces where there has been domestic violence.
Steve Erickson is:
  • Listed on the MN Rule 114 Roster of Neutrals
  • An Advanced Practitioner member of the international Association for Conflict Resolution
  • A member of Conflict Resolution Minnesota
  • A member of the Minnesota Bar Association, the Hennepin County Bar Association, and the Cass County Bar Association
  • A member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Marilyn McKnight is:
  • Listed on the MN Rule 114 Roster of Neutrals
  • An Advanced Practitioner member and current President of the International Association for Conflict Resolution
  • A member of Conflict Resolution Minnesota
  • A member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
This event is approved by the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Minnesota Supreme Court Rule 114 Roster of Neutrals.
Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers published EMI’s Divorce Mediation Training Manual in 2001.
 
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
  • A client-centered model of mediation. This model is used extensively throughout the mediation field by professional mediators who facilitate a process of resolving conflict and decision-making based on clients’ creativity and their own sense of fairness.
  • Up-to-date new thinking and strategies to use in the mediation room
  • Useful case examples that are new and pertinent to today’s issues in divorce
  • Mediator skills and interventions necessary to assist clients in reaching successful resolution of their disputes
 
YOU WILL RECEIVE:
  • A comprehensive training manual. This manual includes most of the lecture notes, detailed material about new skills, new thinking, new interventions, strategies to avoid impasse, and forms necessary to begin a mediation practice. (Past participants have consistently indicated their continued use of their EMI training manual as the main tool they refer to when mediating their cases.)
  • "The Practitioner’s Guide to Mediation"
  • Copies of forms used by Erickson Mediation Institute, which are not copyrighted, and can easily be changed for personal use.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Cancellation of registrations made fewer than 10 working days prior to training forfeits your deposit.

Deposits may be transferred to another training with no additional fee.

EMI reserves the right to cancel a training if necessary and will refund any fees collected.