Thursday, April 27th
8 a.m PDT| 11 a.m EDT
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.
Ms. Abramowitz encourages you to support Bread For The City.
Our special guest this week, Ava J. Abramowitz, former assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Mediator and Professional Lecturer, will present on:
Rethinking Mediation
This Will Work For Food presentation will be: So much of what we do as mediators is based on the Getting to Yes process developed for negotiators. Basing our conduct on negotiation makes sense, if you think of mediation as facilitated negotiation, but mediation is that and more. It touches on areas as diverse as risk management and return on investment and emotional aspirations and the angry desire for paybacks. The list is as complicated as the people caught up in a dispute. Perhaps we can make more progress in understanding how disputes settle if we look to other fields. In this presentation we will do just that.
A former assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Ava teaches negotiation and mediation at GW Law School where she is researching the communication behaviors used in mediations.
She is the author of The Architect’s Essentials of Negotiation (2nd ed.) (John Wiley & Sons 2009). She is also the writer of dozens of articles on critical negotiation and mediation issues facing lawyers and clients, including “Modern Consultative Sales Theory” published in 2019 by the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution in its book, Negotiation Essentials for Lawyers, and “Why Reinvent the Wheel: Tapping Consultative Selling Research to Expand Mediator Effectiveness” just published in the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Additionally, Ava has been serving as a mediator for the federal courts for the District of Columbia since the eighties. Ava is a graduate of Brandeis University and the George Washington University Law School.