COMMUNITY MEDIATION SERVICES, INC.
Is Offering
 
ADVANCED MEDIATION TRAINING – MEDIATING WITH VETERANS
Friday, June 6th,  9:00AM – 5:00PM  
Sunday, June 8th,  9:00AM – 5:00 PM
 
A major challenge facing America today is the re-entry of Iraq and
Afghanistan into their families, their communities and their workplace. 
The same issues faced by returning vets today continue to be a part of the
lives of veterans from wars past.  Adjustment of the veteran to a once
familiar environment that is now forever altered by his/her experience is
daunting.  Using a combination of lecture, interactive exercises, the
voices of returning vets and role-plays, you will gain the knowledge and
skills to mediate when at least one vet is at the table.
 
Key Veteran Mediation Topics will include:
        * The Military Culture
        * The Military Experience
        * Stressors of Pre-Deployment and Deployment on Families
        * Re-integration Challenges in the Family, the Workplace and the Community
        * Psychological and Physical Consequences of being in a War Zone
(Physical idisability, PTSD, TBI, MST)
        * Unique Issues Related to Entitlements

Lead Trainer:
Mark Kleiman, Esq.  Mark is the founder and executive director of
Community Mediation Services, Inc. (CMS). His experience includes
developing and pioneering curricula and programs mediating matrimonial
issues, parent-teen conflict, a reentry program for delinquents,
homelessness prevention, child welfare and dozens of violence prevention
and peer mediation programs in city schools. Mark has developed a
curriculum for a veterans co-mediation model, combining the skills of
trained family mediators and veteran mediators, to better serve the
specific issues faced by veterans and their families through the mediation
process.  
 
Mark is a certified mediation trainer through the Office of Court
Administration and has developed innovative trainings applying a unique
model called Value-Centered Mediation. It recognizes the centrality of
meaning and values to everything we do. In sharing the meaning and values
of their goals, relationships and the impact of the conflict the parties
gain a deeper understanding of their importance to each party. The
techniques are designed to enable the parties to both gain understanding
as well as address the issues with greater wisdom. Using this approach
the mediator induces a thoughtful and incremental means of conflict
resolution enabling the veteran to slowly re-establish the parameters of
their relationships.
 
Fee:  $400 (Community Mediators $300)
 
Location:  CMS Training Center,  89-64 163rd Street, Jamaica, Queens
Contact:    Peggy Russell, Director of Mediation Services
(prussell@mediatenyc.org), or Lee Chabin, Director of Training
(lchabin@mediatenyc.org), 718-523-6868 ext. 252