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Basic 40-Hour Mediation
Prepare for 40 intensive hours of dispute resolution theory and practice. In addition to covering topics that meet the standards for training mediators in Texas, this course gives special emphasis to psychological, financial, cultural, legal, social, and procedural dynamics of mediation. Lectures, role plays, case studies, and demonstrations are designed to instill the skills needed by successful mediators. This training may be applied toward partial fulfillment of the requirements for membership in the Association for Conflict Resolution. This course complies with the standards set by the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable and Chapter 154 Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code.
Cost: $999
Course Dates:
April 11 - 15, 2012 (after March 28, 2012 add $50)
July 11 - 15, 2012 (after June 27, 2012 add $50)
Location: Texas Woman's University, Denton Campus

Family Mediation
A brief review of mediation techniques will precede an in-depth look at the psychological and economic impact of divorce, family dynamics, domestic violence, and components of family law. Topics will include complex custody, support, visitation, tax, and property issues, as well as child development and family systems. The class will also explore ethical issues of family mediation and feature technological advances utilized in marital property disputes. This training can be used to meet the requirement for judicial appointments in family cases in Texas. This course complies with the standards set by the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable and Chapter 154 Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code.
Cost: $799
Course Dates:
May 10 - 13, 2012 (after April 26, 2012 add $50)
June 14 - 17, 2012 (after May 31, 2012 add $50)
Location:  Texas Woman's University, Denton Campus

Expert Mediation
This course is particularly appropriate for credentialed mediators, other mediators, attorneys who regularly find themselves in settlement conferences and collaborative professionals. Extensive skills training in the areas of communication, persuasion, advocacy and negotiation as a mediator will be followed by specific training in selected areas of law: employment, partnerships, family, debtor/creditor law and personal injury. Advanced instruction in such selected areas as solution focused collaboration, reframing and closure will include intensive coaching and mock mediations to assess the student's level of expertise and help each person improve. Students will learn from their own psychological inventories what their strengths and challenges are as a professional mediator. All participants of Advanced Mediation will take an advanced psychological inventory examination in order to increase self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
Course Date:
March 23 - 24, 2012 (after March 9, 2012 add $50)
May 18 - 19, 2012 (after May 4, 2012 add $50)
July 20 - 21, 2012 (after July 6, 2012 add $50)
Location: Texas Woman's University, Denton Campus
Cost: $449

Conflict Resolution
A core course for any conflict specialist, this class provides instruction in such essential skills as empathetic–communication, active listening, productive questioning, managing group dynamics, consensus building, and collaborative problem solving. An understanding of the sources of conflict, coupled with knowledge of conflict styles, enhances the ability to resolve disputes and enables the conflict specialist to work in a variety of settings. Co-trainer, Dr. Linda Galindo, Organizational Change Management Specialist.
Course Dates: TBD
Location: Texas Woman's University, Denton Campus
Cost: $799

Mediation Practicum (Non-Credit Only)
Required of all candidates seeking a Certificate in Conflict Resolution, the practicum offers a chance for a newly trained mediator who has taken both the Basic 40-Hour and the Family Mediation courses to participate in mediation with a coach. Over a period of approximately four months*, the student will work with the instructor in mediating four cases as an observer, co-mediator, and lead mediator with the instructor observing.
Cost: $950

* Many factors can shorten or lengthen the practicum experience: schedules of the student and instructor, availability of suitable cases and cancellation rates. If the student is unwilling or unable to pursue the scheduling and attending of mediations and does not respond to repeated efforts by the instructor to complete the practicum, the instructor will terminate the course after appropriate notification to the student. In the event the course is terminated, no refund of the fees will be made.