Register now to attend Harnessing the Power of the Master Mediator with Lee Jay Berman | November 13-14, 2014
Harnessing the Power of the Master Mediator is a course designed explicitly for mediators who have achieved a level of success and a respect for other mediation styles and applications, and who are prepared to move beyond the confines of evaluative and facilitative processes of mediation and make a difference with their work – both in the lives of their mediation participants, and in themselves. This workshop is for those who are ready to move to the next level of awareness and consciousness, grounded in deeper connection with the participants.
Master mediators see things differently, they hear things differently, and they proceed differently than other mediators who haven't had their senses sharpened. This workshop is just what mediators need who feel like their work has hit a plateau. In this experiential workshop, we reach far outside of classic mediation training and work with the counter-intuitive. We introduce and practice the tools that master mediators draw upon that allow them to function at a higher level, including neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to build rapport and understanding, understanding some of the psychology of conflict and manipulation, and raising your perceptual levels, all to help mediators see and hear more of what's going on in the room and have impact that participants want when they say, "Now, go work your magic."
MCLE credits will be provided by the American Institute of Mediation.
Trainer Bio
Lee Jay Berman began as a full-time mediator over 20 years ago and has successfully mediated over 1,900 matters. He is a national panelist with the American Arbitration Association, a Distinguished Fellow with the International Academy of Mediators, a Charter Diplomat with the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, he was one of the first five U.S. mediators internationally certified by the International Mediation Institute, and he serves as a Dispute Resolution Expert with the United Nations Development Programme. He was Mediator of the Year for the US Bankruptcy Court in California, California’s Daily Journal twice named him “Top Neutral”, Acquisition International Magazine awarded him “Mediator of the Year – California” in 2012-2014, and he has been voted by his colleagues into the Who’s Who of International Commercial Mediation in 2012-2014.
Also a respected trainer, he founded the American Institute of Mediation, leaving his position as Director of Pepperdine Law School's Mediating the Litigated Case program after seven years. In addition to lecturing and training at Pepperdine, he has also done so at Southwestern Law School, University of Texas, Southern Methodist University, and Lipscomb University. Lee Jay has trained judges, attorneys and business leaders in India, Australia, in Europe and the Middle East.
As an author, he has published numerous articles on mediation and ADR, along with his blog Eye On Conflict, and the ABA will be publishing two of his books in 2014.