On July 19-20, the Association of Professional Family Mediators (APFM) is offering a 2-day Advanced Training on “Power Imbalance in Family Mediation” in Seattle, Washington.
Riverdale Mediation’s President and founder, Hilary Linton, will
be a trainer for the program alongside Claudette Reimer from the Barrie Mediation Centre, and Bill Eddy from San Diego. (This is the second time that Riverdale will be partnering with Bill Eddy this year: on June 2-3 we are offering a 2-day seminar on “New Ways for Mediation of High Conflict Disputes” with him in Toronto!)
The APFM program will include seminar presentations, demonstrations and mediation practice exercises. Topics will include:
- Screening for power imbalances, including domestic violence, parenting interference and financial knowledge imbalances;
- Designing protections for a safe and balanced mediation process; and
- Managing the mediation with high-conflict participants.
There will be on-going opportunities for discussion and practice. With more difficult clients appearing in mediation and more court systems referring cases to mediation, these are skills we all need to strengthen.
For more information, contact Nancy Kaplan: [email protected] or 425-829-6637.
