DATE:
   Friday, September 14, 2012 (9:00 am – 4:30 pm)

LOCATION:
    Muir Woods Room at Rafael North Executive Park

   175 North Redwood Drive

   San Rafael, CA 94903

   (20 miles north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge )

FEE:     $275 (Early Registration: $225 if by 8/3/12; $250 if by 8/17/12).

CE CREDITS:    MCLE & BBS (6.0 hours); MCEP (6.5 hours to be submitted for review to MCEPAA for approval, Provider #NOR045)

DESCRIPTION:
Virtually every dispute has both a legal and an emotional/psychological component. Most mediators tend to focus exclusively on what might be termed the legal case, when it is often the emotional case that holds the key to resolution of the case as a whole. This advanced training will teach participants how to recognize, disentangle and work skillfully to resolve both the emotional and legal components of conflicts in a seamless and integrated way. Participants will learn how to deepen their emotional intelligence in the context of dispute resolution, and to integrate their emotional and intellectual intelligences so they can respond ably to the exigencies of the moment. Group exercises using complex dispute scenarios will enable participants to learn invaluable skills, such as how to use the “emotional outcroppings” that often appear in mediations to identify when and how emotional issues are driving a case, as well as how to recognize when the legal and emotional issues in a case have become conflated. Trainees will learn how to disentangle parties’ emotional/psychological and legal issues, help the parties to address and resolve the emotional issues directly, and re-integrate the emotional and legal cases so parties can work together to maximize the legal and business options available.

About the Instructor:

Stephen H. Sulmeyer, J.D., Ph.D. is a lawyer, clinical psychologist, and mediator. He mediates a wide range of civil matters, including family and divorce, elder and probate, general business and commercial, intellectual property, employment, discrimination, partnerships, personal injury, and neighbor/community disputes. He is also a collaborative divorce coach. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, where he has taught as a member of the adjunct faculty. Steve is the co-founder (with Judge Verna Adams) of the Marin Superior Court’s Interdisciplinary Settlement Conference program, in which mental health professionals and lawyers trained in dispute resolution team up to assist judges in settling cases. He is also the founder of Integrative Mediation Marin, an organization that teams up mental health professionals and attorney-mediators in a conjoint mediation model in family law cases.

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