5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW, - Suite 440
Washington, DC 20015

Close to Metro
(Friendship Heights -
Red Line)

PHONE (202) 274-1822
FAX (202) 274-1824
TDD (800) 630-1415

pmaida@keybridge.org

 

New Training in 2008!

Forty-Hour Basic Workplace Mediation (five days) Dates: April 14 - 18, 2008
Cost: $1,100. (Discount for early registration received by January 1, 2008, $1,000.00)

This course offers basic workplace mediation training using role-playing, lectures, exercises, case histories and demonstrations of disputes, and dispute resolution. The training is designed for human resource professionals, attorneys, counselors, and others whose work involves resolving disagreements in the workplace setting. Role-play scenarios will focus on conflicts involving employment, civil rights, employee/supervisor and employee/employee disagreements. During this training, the instructors provide valuable coaching and observation for training participants. A copy of the book: Mediate, Don’t Litigate is included in the price of the training. CLEs and CEUs will be provided upon request.

Location: Washington, D.C.

Forty Hour Divorce and Separation Training (five days) Dates: May 5 - 9, 2008
Cost: $1,100. (Discount for early registration received by January 1, 2008, $1,000.00)

This comprehensive training provides participants with the opportunity to acquire skills in mediating all the issues in separation and divorce cases. The training covers every phase of case management from initial contact to closure, and includes the following topics; child custody, visitation, child support, spouse support, property division, finances, and the legal and psychological and emotional aspects of separation and divorce. The training schedule includes a section on domestic violence as well as information about marketing your mediation practice, and ethical standards of practice in mediation. A copy of the book: Mediate, Don’t Litigate is included in the price of the training. CEUs and CLEs will be provided upon request.

Location: Williamsburg, Virginia.

INSTRUCTORS:

Peter Maida, Ph.D., J.D., Executive Director of Key Bridge Foundation, Washington, DC. Dr. Maida has mediated disputes since 1985 between professionals, employer/employee, consumer/business, and in the areas of civil rights, commercial, human relations, health care, and domestic relations. His clients have included the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has also provided training to many private, municipal, and state government agencies. A former faculty member at the University of Maryland for 25 years, Dr. Maida currently serves on a number of national mediation panels for employment dispute resolution and has been training mediators for approximately 30 years. He is currently an advanced practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution.

Merri L. Hanson, M.A., Director of Peninsula Mediation & ADR, Hampton/Williamsburg, VA. Under her direction Peninsula Mediation and ADR manages ADR contracts and services delivery throughout the United States and Hawaii for the Dept. of Navy, Dept. of Social Security, Dept. of Transportation, Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of the Army, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Dept. of Homeland Security. She serves on ADR rosters for the Dept. of Justice (ADA mediation), the Dept. of Energy, NASA, U. S. Air Force, the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture. Merri has conducted family mediation training throughout Virginia and in North Carolina, New York and Nevada. She is a Virginia certified mediator, a member of the Supreme Court of Virginia Dispute Resolution Services Advisory Council, a member of the Association of Conflict Resolution, where she is an advanced practitioner, and is currently adjunct faculty in family mediation at the Marshall Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary.

For more information please go to www.keybridge.org, www.peninsulamediation.com,
or call: Key Bridge Foundation, 1-800-346-7643, 202-274-1822 TDD: 800-630-1051