Quinnipiac University School of Law Center on Dispute Resolution

40-Hour Mediation Training

March 17, 18, 19, 24 and 25

This 40-hour mediation training course, co-sponsored by the Labor Education Center at the University of Connecticut College of Continuing Studies, provides a comprehensive introduction to mediation and conflict management.

Designed for lawyers and nonlawyers alike and led by William Logue and Paddy Moore, experienced mediators and trainers, the course is based on experiential learning, providing each participant with many opportunities to practice mediation skills and receive feedback. It conveys to participants the following skills:

• Deeper understanding of mediation as a way to settle disputes in commercial and business affairs, divorce and child custody cases, employment relationships, union-management contracts, environmental matters, health care issues, public policy debates and other areas
• Ability to design and provide mediation services in a variety of settings
• Listening, reframing, defusing and containing emotions and other communication skills
• Ability to manage interest-based negotiations between two or more parties

The Spring 2011 training course will be held March 17, 18, 19, 24 and 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day, at Quinnipiac University School of Law, 275 Mount Carmel Ave, Hamden, CT  06518. Participants must attend all five days. To register, please print the PDF brochure and mail the completed form with payment.  Tuition is $1750; save $250 if you register before February 18, 2011.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Brown at the Quinnipiac Center on Dispute Resolution, 203-582-3246 or Mark Sullivan at the UConn Labor Education Center, 860-486-3417.