1.5 CPD Units in Professional Skills

Presenters: Stephen Dickinson - ANSR Dispute Resolution
Honourable Justice Doyle - Supreme Court of South Australia
Franca Petrone - Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Chair: Alex Mackey 

Title: Mediation Advocacy
Date: Wednesday March 31 2021
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am 

• Mediator selection
• National Mediator Accreditation System (NMAS)
• Mediator experience and expertise
• Personal attributes of mediator
• Mediator practice methods
• Performing due diligence
• Preparing for mediation
• What are you and your client embarking upon? Mediation, Conciliation or something entirely different?
• Preparing your client
• Creating landscape for informed negotiations and decision making
• Identifying “the gold”
• Identifying “the key”
• Mediation papers
• Pre-mediation sessions
• Setting the scene
• Time and location
• Room and seating plan
• Facilities and other considerations
• Game Time
• Opening statements?
• You are NOT in a Courtroom
• Familiarity and respect
• Working with the mediator
• Body language
• Active listening
• Reflection
• Thinking outside the square
• The disadvantages of positional bargaining
• Recording terms of settlement
• Reducing and simplifying matters in dispute
• Close or adjourn?

Practitioner Level: Intermediate


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