Clackamas County Dispute Resolution Center

Workplace Mediation and Intercultural Conflict Resolution Training

BRIDGING DIFFERENCES - BUILDING ALLIANCES
This comprehensive five-day course teaches the skills and techniques of interest-based mediation in a workplace context with an intercultural perspective. Learn a practical and structured process for helping disputing parties find mutually agreeable solutions. Develop and improve communication, negotiation, and mediation skills which can be equally applicable in the workplace and for interpersonal relationships. Participate in interactive learning via role plays with professional mediation coaches. Certificate of completion provided for this 40-hour training. Volunteer opportunities to continue your mediation education will be offered to applicants as follow up to your training experience.

Trainers: Community Solutions for Clackamas County (CSCC) Dispute Resolution Center
Staff Amy Cleary, and Robin Rasch, will be joined by guests:
Stan Sitnick, JD, is on the faculty of the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University and he maintains a private practice as a mediator, facilitator and conflict resolution trainer. Stan served for ten years as the Coordinator of the Clackamas County Dispute Resolution Center. He has more than 20 years of experience as an attorney practicing general civil law and as Litigation Director for Legal Services programs. Stan is on the Executive Committee of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Oregon State Bar and he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Oregon Mediation Association for six years.
Jon Townsend, MA, is a partner in the firm Agreements Work, which provides training and services in the area of collaborative-based negotiation, mediation, arbitration, facilitation and cross-cultural communications for businesses and organizations and has participated in fields with such training for over 30 years. Jon has conducted workshops and provided services throughout the United States, internationally, and throughout Indian Country. He was named “Mediator of the Decade” by national Native American conflict resolution program, and he is an enrolled member of the Creek Indian Nation.

Where: The Evangelical Center
18121 SE River Road
Milwaukie, OR 97267

When: April 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9, 2010
8:30 – 5:00 p.m. daily with a one hour lunch break

Fees: $750 when payment made by March 18, 2010
$795 when payment made thereafter
$100 non-refundable deposit is required, full payment is due by March 30, 2010

Space Limited! Make checks payable to “CSCC” and mail to:
CSCC Dispute Resolution Center
112 11th Street
Oregon City, OR. 97045

For questions, call Amy Cleary, Program Coordinator at CSCC DRC: (503) 655-8700.
http://www.clackamas.us/cscc/mediation.htm