3 CPD Units in Professional Skills

Presenter: Megan Hunter, High Conflict Institute 

Megan Hunter, MBA, is an expert and educator in the area of high-conflict legal disputes and relationships. She is CEO and co-founder of the High Conflict Institute with Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. who developed the high conflict personality theory. She is also the founder and publisher at Unhooked Media, a media company focused on high-conflict disputes and complicated relationships.

Megan has trained legal, mental health, business, leadership groups, universities and other professionals across the United States, Canada, South Africa, Israel and Australia. She has strong policy and judicial training experience during her tenure at the Arizona Supreme Court, Administrative Office of the Courts, and five years’ service to the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners. She is co-author of The High-Conflict Co-Parenting Survival Guide (2019); co-author of Dating Radar: Why Your Brain Says Yes to “The One” Who Will Make Your Life Hell (2017); and author of Bait & Switch: Saving Your Relationship When Incredible Romance Turns Into Exhausting Chaos (2015).

High-Conflict cases are the cases that we dread to mediate. We often feel frustrated, hopeless and angry about them. They include one or more parties with a high-conflict personality: lots of all-or-nothing thinking, unmanaged emotions, extreme behaviours (yelling, storming out, silently sabotaging or refusing to consider other options) and a preoccupation with blaming others—sometimes even the mediator! If you’ve ever been stuck and uncertain how to proceed in these cases, or perplexed about how to shift clients from rigid all-or-nothing demand to a more reasonable position, this seminar will help. A different mediation approach is needed with these cases, one that shifts the burden of problem-solving onto them and off of the mediator. New Ways for Mediation, a method developed by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. of the High Conflict Institute will be presented. Participants will learn new skills for clients to use during high-conflict mediation. These include five significant paradigm shifts from ordinary mediation. These methods are not designed to replace what already works, but rather to use when other methods like emotional exchanges and insight just don’t work.