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About EMG
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Dana Curtis' extensive experience and interest in the field of elder mediation led her to create Elder Mediation Group
in 2008 to provide mediation services and training in matters related
to elders. Ms. Curtis is convinced that mediation can help elders,
their families and their caregivers make important decisions and
resolve controversies in ways that create stronger relationships and a
greater sense of wellbeing for elders and/or their families.
View Ms. Curtis' bio.
Read more about Elder Mediation Group Mediation Services.
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Who is Eligible for Training?
Any person may take our training courses and there are no prerequisites for those wishing to attend training.
In terms of other considerations prior to training, we encourage participants to think about situations in which they are called upon to help family members understand one another, what their "default" way of helping them is, what qualities they bring to the role of mediator and what makes it challenging for them to be in the role of the mediator.
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Additional Upcoming Training
Grief Matters: Understanding and Responding to Grief in Estates and Trusts
Sponsored by the Sonoma County Bar Association Trusts and Estate Section
September 24, 2009
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Download registration form (Space is limited)
Fundamentals of Elder Mediation: A Workshop for Experienced Mediators
December 3, 4 & 5, 2009
Location: Sausalito, CA
Download registration form
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We
hope you enjoy the very first edition of the Elder Mediation Group
Newsletter! This issue highlights our Eldercare Professionals Mediation
Training Series, which is now open to registration.
If you know of someone that would benefit from this information, then you may share this newsletter via email by clicking here.
Eldercare Professionals Mediation Training Series
Registration Now Open
Continuing Education Credit from the California Board of Behavioral Sciences Applies
Elder
Mediation Group is please to announce that registration is now open for
our 2009 Eldercare Professionals Mediation Training Series. The series
includes a 1-day Mediation Skills course and an intensive 3-day Mediation Training course.
Classes
will take place at our Sausalito office, just 3 miles from San
Francisco. No mediation training or experience is required.
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Mediation Skills for Eldercare Professionals
October 2, 2009; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
In this day-long course you will be introduced to the fundamental theoretical, practical and personal aspects of mediation and explore how mediation skills and understandings can help you manage conflict situations you encounter in your work, including conflict among family members, between family members and elders, between elders and their family members and caregivers.
Goals of the Workshop
- To gain insight into conflict, including the benefits of conflict, common reactions to conflict and the changes that occur in the nervous system when we are in conflict
- To identify and analyze our own default approach to conflict situations
- To develop core mediator skills of empathy and reframing
- To be able to structure a simple mediation
- To identify and explore the personal qualities of a mediator and ways to develop them
Fee: $225 (before Sept. 15), $250 (after Sept. 15)
Government / Non-Profit: $175
PCE#: 4519
Course meets the qualifications for 6.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFCCs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Click here for a Registration Form
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Faculty
Dana Curtis is the series' architect and lead teacher. Ms. Curtis has been a full-time mediator for nearly twenty years. She has designed and facilitated mediation and negotiation training programs for hundreds of organizations, including the California Courts of Appeal, Stanford Law School, and scores of businesses, governmental agencies, educational institutions, professional and bar associations and professional conferences throughout the United States and internationally. The Los Angeles Daily Journal has recognized her as one of the "Top 50 Neutrals" in California.
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Mediation Training for Eldercare Professionals
October 29, 30 & 31, 2009; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
This 3-day intensive trains professionals in the fundamentals of mediation at three levels: theoretical, practical and personal aspects of a mediation process that allows parties to bridge differences through understanding.
Goals for the Training
- To gain insight into conflict, including the benefits of conflict, common reactions to conflict and the changes that occur in the nervous system when we are in conflict
- To be able to apply five principles of conflict management
- To understand and analyze policy and ethical implications of mediation in the context of eldercare and tensions between being a mediator and serving in another capacity
- To develop communication skills essential to effective mediation - empathy, reframing, assertion
- To develop the ability to structure and facilitate mediation with multiple parties;
- To understand the effects of aging and their relationship to meaningful participation in mediation
- To understand the effects of aging and how to accommodate them in mediation
- To understand and explore the "universe" of elder mediation
- To facilitate mediation with multiple parties
- To manage emotional conflict
- To be able to distinguish between therapy and mediation
- To explore the role of the mediator as problem-solver
Fee: $675 (before Sept. 29), $750 (after Sept. 29)
Government / Non-Profit: $525
PCE#: 4519
Course meets the qualifications for 19.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFCCs and/or LCSWs as
required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Click here for a Registration Form
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Questions about Elder Mediation or Elder Mediation Training? Email office@eldermediationgroup.com or call 415.289.0423.
Best Regards,
Elder Mediation Group
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