Advanced Family Mediation – July 23, 24, 25, 26, 2024 – Online

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$650.00

Advanced Family Mediation  – July 23, 24, 25, 26, 2024.  8:30 am to 5:30 pm  Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; and 8:30 am to 1:30 pm Friday. This class is completely online, while remaining live and interactive.

The Advanced Family Mediation Training is a 30-hour training fulfilling the Texas ADR Act requirements for mediators doing court-ordered family mediation and following the standards set by the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable. The sessions include family law, family dynamics, domestic violence, child development, ethical and practical considerations in a combined lecture and role play environment.

Basic Mediation Training is required prior to taking this course. (MCLE including 2.00 hours of Ethics provided.)

PLEASE NOTE:   Requirements for participation in this online training include:

  • Registrant must use a laptop or desktop computer during the training that has a camera and microphone.  (No tablets or cell phones.)
  • To meet the standards for the training, the registrant must attend the full 40 hour course and be visible by camera the entire time.
  • Recording of sessions by the registrant is not permitted.

DRC accepts the following forms of payments – Checks (Please fill out the mail in order form and return with check), VISA and MASTERCARD. Choose your training date, then click on the   “Add to Cart” link to the right that corresponds to the training program.

Cancellations will be accepted up to 2 weeks prior to class.   There will be a $50 administration charge deducted from each refund.

About the   Trainers:

Diane M. Harvey, LCSW, TMCA Credentialed Mediator

Diane is a Clinical Social Worker and Mediator, maintaining a private therapy practice since 1994 and adding mediation to her practice in 1999. Since then, she mediates at the Austin Dispute Resolution Center (DRC) and has served as a coach in their mediation trainings for many years. She is a past board member (past president) of the Austin Mediators Association, a past board member of the Texas Mediators Credentialing Association (TMCA) and the Texas Association of Mediators (TAM – Past President). Diane is a co-founder of The Center for Integrated Divorce, a program designed to assist couples committed to a non-adversarial process.

 

Diane holds an MSW from Fordham University. As a social worker, she worked with people in a wide variety of settings including a 10-year career in the New York State mental health system, concurrent with years of union leadership. It was her union work that piqued an interest in mediation. In 1993 she moved to Texas and headed the social services department at a private psychiatric hospital. She is a frequent speaker and workshop leader for a variety of local, statewide, and national groups, focusing primarily on conflict resolution, mediation, communication, and mental health issues. Diane was honored by the National Association of Social Workers – Texas Capital Branch as 2014 Social Worker of the Year.

 

Michael J. Schless, JD, Mediator, Arbitrator

Mike Schless is a Martindale-Hubbell Preeminent A-V rated attorney whose practice has been limited to Alternative Dispute Resolution since 1992. He has mediated or arbitrated over 3,000 cases covering a broad range of topics and degrees of complexity.  Prior to his career in ADR, Mike served the people of Travis County, Texas, as Judge of the County Court at Law, No. 3, with prior experience as a trial lawyer in Austin after becoming licensed in 1973.

Mike has served in numerous ADR related professional organizations including Past National President of the Association of Attorney-Mediators, the AA-M representative on the Board of Directors of the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association, past Chair of the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association board, past Chair of the SBOT ADR Section, and President of the Texas Association of Mediators.

Having received many accolades and field related awards, Mike remains a member of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) Panel of Neutrals; a member of the Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) Roster of Distinguished Neutrals;  as well as a member of the International Academy of Mediators, and the Association for Conflict Resolution.

In addition to his practice, Mike is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law where he teaches courses in Negotiation and Mediation.  He has also been a member of the faculty of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) Executive Masters of International and European Business Law program where he taught mediation each year in Luxembourg for nine years.

$650.00
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