Thursday, December 7th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun, and raise money for food banks .
When you’re thinking about where to donate, please consider supporting Blue Ride Area Food Bank
Our special guest this week, Brenda Waugh will Present on:
HIJACKED! Mediation, Self-determination, and Controlling the Process
What happens when parties (or their counsel) try to wrestle the control of the mediation session from the mediator? Whose process is mediation, anyway? Does self-determination provide parties a voice in structuring mediation? How can we, as mediators, provide parties power in choices about how mediation occurs, while maintaining the integrity of the process? Explore these questions with colleagues to gain insight in how to balance self-determination with a duty to balance power and meet the parties’ objectives. We will create a list of strategies to address responses to harmful exercises of power by participants in the mediation process.
Brenda Waugh is a lawyer, mediator and facilitator at Waugh Law & Mediation, where she mediates conflicts that involve civil cases, family matters, elder law, business and estate disputes in Virginia and West Virginia. She facilitates restorative justice processes and has collaborated with several schools and communities to implement restorative justice initiatives.Brenda has both a law degree and a master’s degree in conflict resolution. She has practiced law since 1987, as an assistant prosecuting attorney, counsel to the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee and as a clerk to the West Virginia Supreme Court. Brenda completed her first mediation training with the West Virginia State Bar in 1999. She is certified by the Virginia Supreme Court and the West Virginia Supreme Court to mediate court referred family law matters and as a mentor.