Summary of Meetings: ADR - Nanaimo
Number of Meetings Held: 6
October 10, 2024
Registration Count: 39
Guest Speakers: Donna Soules, Marshall Soules
Meeting Title/Topic: The Art of Reframing
Synopsis: Reframing is a powerful and constructive communication skill. This session focuses on skill development for reframing negative positions to positive interests. There is a brief lecturette, skill demonstration, and small breakout group practice with coaches.
November 28, 2024
Registration Count: 44
Guest Speakers: Aaron Leakey, Kelly Douglas
Meeting Title/Topic: Two-Eyed Mediation: A Partnership Approach to Mediation Process, Ethics, and Design
Synopsis: Aaron Leakey and Kelly Douglas make a unique team who offer a “two-eyed” approach to the art and practice of mediation. Using a partnership model that respects the ‘ethical space’ between worldviews, their approach involves applying a decolonial lens to traditional mediation practice.
January 29, 2025
Registration Count: 60
Guest Speakers: Roy Johnson
Meeting Title/Topic: How to Change People
Synopsis: In this interactive session, Roy Johnson, The Neutral Zone, will offer evidence-based insights into whether people really change at all, and surprising tools to try when nothing else works.
March 27, 2025
Registration Count: 56
Guest Speakers: Kenneth Cloke
Meeting Title/Topic: The Magic of Mediation: How to Find, Feed, and Foment It
Synopsis: Kenneth Cloke, Centre for Dispute Resolution, examines a few of the sources of magic in mediation, the transformational skills and transcendent techniques that allow us to move beyond conciliation and compromise to collaboration and consensus.
May 15, 2025
Registration Count: 30
Guest Speakers: Alyson Jones
Meeting Title/Topic: Therapeutic Interventions for High Conflict and Reunification Cases
Synopsis: Alyson Jones has a long history working on high conflict cases with complex family dynamics. This practical presentation explores the steps that can be taken when dealing with complex cases, and the therapeutic interventions that may or may not be applicable for these families.
June 19, 2025
Registration Count: TBA
Guest Speakers: Gordon Sloan
Meeting Title/Topic: Conflict vs. Dispute
Synopsis: Gordon Sloan leads a discussion about experiences with each, making meaning out of these terms and, if there are differences, getting a handle on that. Discover whether conflict and dispute need to be addressed differently!