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NE-ACR's 2005 Annual Conference and Master Series will be held on November 2nd and 3rd, with an Advanced Training to be held on November 4th. Please join us!
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For directions to the Master Class, Conference, and Advanced Training
For scholarship information
To register online for the Conference
Schedule of Events
- Interviews with the Masters - Wednesday, November 2nd, 9:00am – Noon
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA
- Master Class - Wednesday, November 2nd, 1:30pm – 5:30pm
DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS with Douglas Stone & David Seibel
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA
- Annual Conference - Thursday, November 3rd, 8:00am – 5:00pm
PUSHING THE LIMITS: Conversations for the ADR Community with Keynote Address by Robert D. Benjamin
Boston University Corporate Education Center, Tyngsboro, MA
- Advanced Training - Friday, November 4th, 9:00am – 4:00pm
THE ECLECTIC MEDIATOR: Doing What Works to Get the Job Done!, with Robert D. Benjamin
Boston University Corporate Education Center, Tyngsboro, MA
REGISTRATION FOR ADVANCED TRAINING IS NOW CLOSED DUE TO FULL ENROLLMENT!
Interviews with the Masters
Mediate.Com has underwritten and is producing a first-of-its kind Video Project featuring interviews with some of the most prominent and influential leaders in the field of Conflict Management. Soon to be available at www.mediate.com, these interviews provide rich training and educational resources. Robert Benjamin, MSW, JD, has conducted more than three dozen interviews to date. The following interviews have been scheduled around our conference and are open to audience or closed circuit viewing, from 9:00 a.m. - Noon on Wednesday, November 2nd at Suffolk University Law School in downtown Boston.
Lawrence Susskind, Ph.D., is one of the country's most experienced and respected public and environmental dispute mediators. He is the Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT, Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and is founder and President of the Consensus Building Institute.
Roger Fisher, LL.B., is Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and coauthor of the mediation and negotiation classic Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In.
For the interview schedule, please revisit this page prior to November 2. Some surprises may be in store for you!
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Master Class
Douglas Stone and David Seibel will present the skills-based Master Class on Wednesday, November 2nd focusing on the ever-evolving lessons of the influential book that Doug co-authored, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. This workshop will look at some of the common dynamics and pitfalls underlying all of our difficult conversations. Doug and David will examine some helpful ways to handle challenging situations, drawing not only from their own experiences, but also from the collective wisdom of the participants in the workshop. Join us for the Master Class from 1:30pm to 5:30pm at Suffolk University Law School in downtown Boston.
Doug Stone is a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a partner at Triad Consulting Group. He has taught and mediated challenging conflicts around the world. Doug lectures widely on leadership, negotiation, and communication. In addition to appearing on many television and radio shows, Doug consults to corporate clients such as Fidelity, Merck, Honda, Merrill Lynch, IBM and Shell.
David Seibel, co-founder of Insight Partners Inc., is an attorney and conflict management consultant, mediator, and teacher in the fields of negotiation, communication and mediation. David advises organizations and individuals on negotiation and effective communication, and mediates a wide range of criminal and civil disputes. He has taught related courses to corporate and non-profit clients internationally.
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Annual Conference
The NE-ACR Annual Conference runs from 8:00am to 5:00pm on Thursday, November 3rd at the Boston University Corporate Education Center in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. Robert D. Benjamin will give the Keynote Address, focusing on The Mediator as a Moralist Bully. He will explore the idea that mediators’ use of labels, such as "bully" or "abuser,” is a form of therapeutic tyranny that itself may be a form of bullyism. How do we as mediators reconcile our use of labels while describing ourselves as open-minded and non-judgmental? As mediators, our greatest strength remains our confusion about who is more right than whom. Our authenticity is directly linked to our ability to function in the difficult, ambiguous terrain of real life without labels.
Robert Benjamin is a mediator, past-president of the Academy of Family Mediators, past board member of ACR, prolific and provocative author of such articles as “Swindlers, Dealmakers and Mediators: A Brief History of Ethics in Negotiation,” “Mediation as a Subversive Activity,” and “Style Wars And Other Little Hypocrisies.” Robert became an attorney in 1975, handling domestic, juvenile, personal injury, criminal, business, real estate and estate planning. After discovering that conflicts could be more effectively managed out of court by negotiation and mediation, he now limits his work solely to negotiation, mediation and arbitration. He presents courses in all aspects of conflict management nationally and internationally.
The NE-ACR Annual Conference will also include three sets of simultaneous workshops, including one workshop presented by Robert Benjamin that will continue to investigate the theme of his keynote speech. At least seven additional workshop choices focusing on skills will promise something for everyone.
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Advanced Training
In addition to his Keynote Address and workshop at the Annual Conference, Robert Benjamin will also offer a full-day, post-conference training on Friday, November 4th (the day after the Conference). Entitled THE ECLECTIC MEDIATOR: Doing What Works to Get the Job Done!, the seminar will take place at the Boston University Corporate Education Center in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. This high-energy and provocative training will deal with such questions as: Is peace our goal as mediators or an inappropriate diversion? Is mediation hard-nosed enough to really deal with tough conflict? How should a mediator embrace leadership in his or her role? What are the real attributes of a natural mediator? What has happened to ethics in mediation as the role of a neutral third party has become professionalized?
Robert Benjamin will answer these questions in this one-day training that will challenge your thinking and provide new tools for your practice. Robert is passionate about mediation and is concerned that, as it is becoming “legalized,” sessions are becoming more like settlement conferences, professionalism in the field is being marginalized and neutrality is a becoming a pretense.
View Conference & Master Series Brochure
View Advanced Training Brochure
To Download the Conference Registration and Price Form (in PDF format)
Register for the Conference
For directions to the Master Series, Annual Conference, and Advanced Training
For a list of hotel accommodations
For more information, please contact Ellen Carno (617-347-0500, ecarno@comcast.net) or Tad Mayer (617-973-9739 x26, tmayer@mwi.org).
For information on scholarships for the Conference events, please click here. Scholarship requests may be directed to scholarships@neacr.org.
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