2024 Maryland Mediators Convention

The session leaders will share their thoughts on some of the challenges they have encountered in mediation, how they learned to deal with these, and how these experiences shifted their approaches. There will be demonstration role plays and some small group discussion as well as opportunities for questions and experiences to be shared by the participants. Topics will include dealing with extreme anger, seeking hidden underlying needs, choosing when to move between the stages of mediation, shifting from past to future, when to caucus, when to intervene, reflecting back in helpful and intuitive ways, and determining how to connect the parties. The leaders expect to learn from the session participants as well as to share their own ideas.