Which Gen are you? Mediating and working across the generations

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Madeleine Taylor, who has mediated and coached teams, managers and staff to better manage conflict in the workplace explores the generational differences, the impact of overindulgence as a factor in workplaces and strategies for coping for all of us.

Collaborative practice for wills and estates – a new way to help families resolve conflict over inheritance

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This webinar is for lawyers, counsellors and dispute resolution practitioners who interact with families wishing to prevent or resolve disputes over inheritance. 

Family Arbitration – the first three years

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This webinar considers data collected by the Federal Circuit Court of Australia of the matters referred to arbitration in the three years from 1 April 2016 to 1 April, 2019.

Integrative Law for Family Lawyers, Mediators, FDRPs and allied professionals – new ways for law in support of human resilience; practitioners and clients

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This webinar recording is an exercise in Integrative Law in action.  Learn how these practitioners have responded to practice challenges by developing their own unique models and discover the tools you can use to chart your family practice pathway.

Family Law in the Future: The Role of Alternative Dispute Resolution

Journal article | March 2020 | Available for purchase & free for members

This article has been extracted from the Resolution Institute journal The Arbitrator and Mediator March 2020.

Written by Judge Joe Harman

Webinar recording | How to assist parents and lawyers to be child focused in family mediations

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In this panel webinar, April O'Mara, Denise Britton and Donna Cooper discussed some strategies including asking parents to set some overarching goals, looking at the needs of children based on their ages, referring to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and other visual aids.

What does it mean for ADR practice? Findings and recommendations of the Inquiry into the Family Law System (AU)

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Judge Joe Harman, Kylie Beckhouse (Legal Aid) and David Roberts (Relationships Australia) shared their thoughts about the findings and recommendations from the Inquiry into the Family Law System and discussed what it might mean for ADR practice and practitioners.

Good practice in Indigenous-led interventions to prevent violence against women

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While the presentation has a particular focus on the needs of indigenous women, those working with domestic violence in a range of circumstances will find many relevant touch points. 

‘Saving face’ in mediation: perspectives from a Chinese-Australian mediator

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With the steady growth of migrants to Australia and NZ particularly from Asia, cultural considerations become increasingly important in the resolution of disputes involving parties from diverse backgrounds.

Reflective practice and debriefing

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Every situation in resolving disputes is unique: expect the unexpected.

Mediators learn as they practice and use reflective practice to learn how they learn.

If we were to practice mechanistically using one tool after the other from our toolbox, we neglect or discount the unpredictable nature of human interactions. Reflective practice offers the means for taking a fresh look at our experiences as dispute resolvers. The practical objective is to become more competent through learning ‘through’ and ‘from experience’.