Register now to attend The Mediator Mindset: Asking Questions that Promote Understanding, Collaboration and Resolution with Marilee Adams | February 5-6, 2015
The wisest and most successful mediators ask the best questions in the best ways to achieve desired results for their clients and themselves. They use the “mediation mindset” to think and act strategically, creatively and collaboratively. They also empower their clients to intentionally operate from a learning orientation and neutralize a judgmental one so as to achieve win-win outcomes.
In this workshop, attendees will learn:
- To understand the mediation mindset--how to activate, utilize, and strengthen it
- Question Thinking (the questions we ask ourselves that drive thinking) in order to promote operating from a learning orientation rather than a judgmental one
- To utilize a discipline of asking questions, listening, and facilitating that is thoughtful, balanced, and comprehensive—and that fosters dignity, respect, and accountability throughout the process
- To follow guidelines for facilitating authentic, collaborative conversations that lead to resolution and that transform conversations that could otherwise derail the process or end up in self-righteous “stand offs”
- To develop the ability to teach clients Question Thinking skills so they can prevent or diminish conflict in their lives and become more successfully collaborative, both personally and professionally.
MCLE credits will be provided by the American Institute of Mediation.
Presenter Bio
Marilee Adams, Ph.D. is the bestselling author of Change Your Questions, Change Your Life; 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work. She is also an organizational consultant and facilitator, executive coach, and professional speaker. She is president of the Inquiry Institute, a consulting, coaching, and educational organization and the originator of the Question Thinking system of tools and practices. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Leadership at American University, School of Public Affairs. She has spoken to all the mediators in the FBI and in the U.S. Navy. Mediators in Northern Virginia get CCUs for participating in her workshops.
Dr. Adams’ books also include The Art of the Question: a Guide to Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy and Teaching that Changes Lives: 12 Mindset Tools for Igniting the Love of Learning. In addition, she co-authored, with Dr. Marge Schiller and Dr. David Cooperrider, a chapter for the first book in the series, Advances in Appreciative Inquiry—Constructive Discourse and Human Organization. She also co-authored an article with Cynda Rushton, R.N., Ph.D., “A Vehicle for Understanding, Resolving and Preventing Conflict between Clinicians and Patients and Families” in ACCN Advanced Critical Care.