Thursday, April, 27th
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!
Our panel of speakers encourages you to donate to Roadrunner Food Bank & Second Harvest of Silicon Valley.
Our special guests this week, Carole Conn, Esmail Rahimian and Roger Moss will present on:
Disrupting Eviction:
Radical Neutral Advocacy and the Future of Dispute Resolution
The pandemic broke down resistance to new technologies that enable widespread participation in mediation and related facilitated dialogue. However it is “thinking different” while deploying new technologies that delivers professional neutral services that can transform the meaning of access to justice.
Join us in a conversation that examines the advent of rapid-response, compassion-centered, interdisciplinary conflict intervention through the lens of a groundbreaking program that has stabilized thousands of households and small businesses facing eviction.
Carole Conn is the Executive Director of Project Sentinel, a housing non-profit operating in Northern California and the Central Valley, since 1971. The housing work of the agency includes support for any number of distresses and problems renters, housing providers and homeowners may face from foreclosure prevention to fair housing advocacy and enforcement to tenant landlord dispute resolution. Carole brings 30 years of experience in non-profit work, project design and innovative thinking to improving the lives of those most vulnerable to housing instability and where the intersection of professional assistance, technology innovation, education empowerment and compassionate interventions, bring about real change.
Esmail Rahimian, PhD is an entrepreneur, a peacemaker, an educator, and certified Tai Chi instructor. Learning, teaching, and helping others succeed energizes him. After leading his own business for over 30 years, his passion took him back to the university where he has taught management, marketing, communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution at the graduate school of business for the past 27 years. With a doctorate in Management, he has learned the best way to help others is to pay special attention to their narrative, their interests, and be responsive rather than imposing his own narrative on them.
As a peacemaker, Esmail has practiced conflict resolution for over thirty years, and alternative dispute resolution for the last six years. As a professional neutral, he has mediated a variety of cases in Civil Harassment, Community, Landlord Tenant, and Juvenile Offender for County of Santa Clara, Superior Court of California, Conflict Intervention Service of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and Project Sentinel. As a reflective practitioner, Esmail strives to improve professional practice that involves three qualities: a commitment to life-long learning, a willingness to learn from experience, and an appreciation of the connection between theory and practice.
Roger Moss became a professional neutral in 2013, following a career in negotiation, strategic planning, and executive leadership in commercial real estate. Known as a creative, connector, and innovator, Roger has served as Chairman of the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California, and as vice-chair of the Washington State Bar Association ADR Section executive committee. In 2021 he co-produced the inaugural Northwest Collaborative Futures Conference. In addition to managing ADR programs at the Bar Association of San Francisco, Roger operates Rincon Resolutions LLC, a consultancy that promotes global innovation in conflict engagement.