20-HOUR MARITAL PROPERTY MEDIATION TRAINING WORKSHOP
MEDIATION OF ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF FAMILY LAW CASES

WASHINGTON, D.C.
 

Our 20-Hour Marital Property Mediation Training workshop for professionals are held at the offices of Mediation Matters in Bethesda, Maryland. This workshop is designed to provide both hands-on training and a clear framework to enable participants to work effectively with parties involved in the mediation of economic aspects of divorce.

Who should attend?
This workshop is for anyone interested in learning about mediating the economic aspects of family law cases. The only prerequisite for this training, designed for both new and experienced mediators, is simply that you have already completed a forty-hour mediation training. If you are already mediating, the more experience you bring to the training, the more you will get from it. If you are just starting up, this will help you get going.


What does this workshop include?
This interactive workshop uses a wide range of formats including video, demonstrations, lectures, discussions, and role-play. The workshop, with Manual, covers the basic economic issues of mediation. The training focuses on the skills involved in becoming an effective mediator in the financial areas of divorce. 

Some of the many components in this training include:

• the core mediation paradigms for dealing with conflict
• advocacy and empowerment
• mediating alimony: the hardest issue
• dealing with stock options, pensions, and taxes in divorce
• tips on successfully mediating the division of assets
• software programs for working with property and finances (FinPlan, Equal Shares, SASI-CALC).
• using caucus effectively
• working with attorneys in mediation
• apologies: their surprising importance
• how co-mediation adds value
• creative settlement strategies
• taxes in divorce
• writing competent agreements

and more.

For Maryland residents, this workshop will meet the 20-hour requirement for marital property training under Rule 17-104c(2) of the Court of Appeals in Maryland for those wishing to be approved for court-referred mediations.

A certificate of completion, suitable for framing, will be issued to you upon successful completion of and full attendance at the training course.

Who are the faculty for the course?
The workshop will be led by:

Carl D. Schneider, Ph.D, the primary trainer for the workshop, has trained over the last twenty years several thousand divorce mediators locally, nationally,  and abroad. Currently Director of Mediation Matters, Bethesda, Maryland, Carl is a registered psychologist, licensed clinical Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Mediator with the Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution and with the Supreme Court of Virginia, and an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). Carl is the former Director (1981-1989) of Divorce Mediation Service, a group practice of 16 mediators in the Chicago area, and former Director of the Mediation Program of Woodbury College in Montpelier, Vermont. He has been on the Board of Directors of the national Academy of Family Mediators, and has been the chair of the Certification Committee for the Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution. Carl is author of Shame, Exposure and Privacy (Norton, 1992) and has served on the editorial board of Mediation Quarterly. He holds a M. Div. degree from Union Theological Seminary in N.Y.C. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Time and Dates:
This is an intensive, experiential twenty-hour workshop. We will meet from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Sunday.  Please plan to be present for the full workshop. Registration will begin at 8:45 a.m. on the first day; the workshop begins at 9:00 a.m.

Location:
The workshop will be held at the offices of Mediation Matters, 9816 Parkwood Drive, Bethesda, Maryland (click for directions).

What is the cost?
Early registration (a deposit of $175 at least thirty days prior to the workshop) is $695 (manual included). After that, the fee is $775. The full balance is due two weeks prior to the workshop with no refunds beyond that point.

How do I register?
Send a check for $175 and a completed registration form to:

Mediation Matters
9816 Parkwood Drive
Bethesda, MD. 20814

Your registration fee is refundable, less $25 service fee, up to three weeks prior to the training. After that, the deposit is non-refundable. Registration for the workshops is limited in order to give proper attention to small groups and role plays. Since many of our workshops fill quickly, we encourage you to register early.

Should I read anything beforehand?
Yes.  Gary Friedman's A GUIDE TO DIVORCE MEDIATION (Workman Publishing, l993; $12.95 pb ISBN 1-56305-245-8). Reading these beforehand will help you make better use of the workshop. The book can be ordered online from Amazon.com by clicking on the cover to the left. Copies of the Friedman book will also be available for purchase at the workshop.

The training manual for the workshop will be distributed the first day of the training.

Accommodations:
You are responsible for arranging your own overnight accommodations. If you would like assistance in finding nearby inexpensive accommodations, please contact us.

Meals:
We will provide a continental breakfast in the morning, a delicious lunch,  and snacks in the afternoon.

What is the attire of the workshop?
Feel free to wear clothes in which you will be comfortable. Our experience is that people often differ in what they regard as a comfortable room temperature, so you may want to dress accordingly.

Please join us:
We hope you will be able to join us for this fine professional training. If you have any questions not answered by this letter, feel free to call us at (301/581-0330  or 1-800-905-2221 outside of the Washington DC area).

Carl D. Schneider, Ph.D.
Director
Mediation Matters

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