Basic Mediation Training

October 27, 28 & 29, 2010

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (each day)

GOOD SHEPHERD MEDIATION CENTER

5356 CHEW AVENUE

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19138

(1/2 block west of the old Germantown Hospital)

US News and World Report named mediation one of the best careers for 2009, commenting about its potential even in an economic downturn (www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2008/12/11/best-careers-2009-mediator.html). 

Good Shepherd Mediation Program, Philadelphia’s only nonprofit community mediation center, offers a 24-hour workshop that will train you to become a mediator.  This workshop will teach you facilitation skills and techniques to enhance communication, conflict resolution, information gathering, perspective-taking, problem-solving, interest-based negotiating, and agreement writing.  Some of the topics covered include: confidentiality, mediator neutrality, active listening, the mediation process, and the legal and ethical considerations involved in mediating disputes.  The training format includes mini-lecture, video, individual, small, and large group exercises, role-playing family, neighborhood, and small claims mediations.  You must attend all 24 hours to receive a Certificate of Completion. Trainees are invited to apprentice at GSMP at no extra cost.

The cost is:    $450.00 (no CLE)

$500.00 (for attorneys licensed to practice law in PA seeking 19.5 CLE credits: 18.5 substantive and 1.0 ethics).

Some scholarships are available to community members who agree to volunteer at GSMP.

TRAINER

Cheryl Cutrona, Esq., the Executive Director at Good Shepherd Mediation Program, has a BA in Humanities from Michigan State University, an MS in Library Science from Wayne State University, and a JD from the Temple University Beasley School of Law where she serves as an Adjunct Instructor teaching “Mediation Advocacy and Practice” and “Alternative Dispute Resolution.”  Cutrona also teaches at St. Joseph’s University in the Graduate Sociology Department and she mediates for the PA Department of Education Office of Dispute Resolution, the Philadelphia Lawyer Fee Disputes program, the U.S. Postal Service, and GSMP.

To register, go to www.phillymediators.org or call Cynthia Blue at 215-843-5413.