Elder Mediation Training

5-Day Basic/Advanced Training in Elder Mediation

This training combines basic mediation and elder mediation skills. It provides practice opportunity for pre-mediation meetings, listening skills, identifying and framing issues, negotiation strategies, and agreement writing within the context of elder mediation.

The elder mediation components include skill building exercises and discussion on a range of topics:

  • Mediation and conflict resolution theory and skills
  • Differences between elder mediation and other types of mediation
  • Guardianship/conservatorship law and practice
  • Capacity and disability issues
  • Legal red flags
  • Elder abuse
  • Confidentiality issues
  • Multiparty mediation and family dynamics
  • Deciding who should be present at the mediation
  • Working with attorneys, court representatives, GAL's and institutional representatives
  • Role of community resources, support persons, advocates, and surrogates in mediation
  • Ethical standards for elder mediators
  • Mental and physical effects of aging, disabilities, and accommodation in mediation
  • Societal and participant bias, family and cultural attitudes, and their impact on the mediation process
  • Pre-mediation interviews and screening for appropriateness of mediation
  • Marketing an elder mediation practice
  • Demonstration, video and practice

Elder Mediation Calendar

Mar 29 - 31, 2012
2.5-Day Training in Elder Mediation
Ann Arbor Mich.

Jun 10 - 12, 2012
2.5-Day Training in Elder Mediation
Chicago Ill

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