Their OMA presentation focused on how mediators affect and are affected by high conflict personalities during mediation. Their topics included understanding high conflict personalities, understanding how conflict resolvers can get triggered and/or hooked, what assumptions conflict resolvers should be aware of and how they may need to change, the importance and difficulty of setting effective boundaries, and the strong challenge to ethics high conflict people can impose.

Listening to highly insistent emotions and applying techniques of empathy, attention and respect (EAR) are highly valuable skills in high conflict cases, not only for helping to reduce conflict by the parties, but also to help mediators and judges stay centered and reduce the effect of being triggered and unhooking.

30 presentations were made at the two-day multi-track conference.

Mr. Baumann and Ms. Hardies also presented at the two-day spring 2011 NW Dispute Resolution Conference at University of Washington, focusing on “movement” as technique for working with high conflict people.

Mark Baumann is a lawyer, mediator and associate of the High Conflict Institute, litigating in Port Angeles, mediating in Seattle, and consulting internationally on high conflict cases to professionals and individual parties.

Rachel Hardies is a therapist and parenting instructor practicing in Port Angeles, and a co-mediator with Mark Baumann.

Friday May 20th, 2011 @ 12:00 P.M. @ the Skill Center.

Healthy families is sponsoring 2 events that you are encouraged to attend! Reader’s Theater Plus will be reading excerpts from books published by two local authors. The authors will be present both evening for Q & A and book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the events. (Subject matter not appropriate for children)

Refreshments and Q & A following, at all events.

EVENTS 1: Barbara Richard, author of the trilogy Dancing on His Grave, Walking Wounded, and Chasing Ghosts, along Dauna Cole, author of A Shattered Mind, will be answering questions and autographing books at both venues. You have 2 opportunities at 2 different places to hear 2 local authors tell their life stories as survivors of domestic abuse/sexual assault.

Readers Theater Plus Authors’ Event (held 2 times)
Friday/ April 9 Port Angeles Senior Center – 382 E. 7th St.
Saturday/April 10 Sequim Faith Lutheran Church – W. 382 Cedar St.
Time: 6:30 p.m. at both venues
Cost: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

EVENT 2: Screening of “Rape Is…” with Healthy Families Master’s level therapist, Ann Marie Emineth.
Q & A following

Tuesday/April 27 Port Angeles Healthy Families-1210 East Front Street-Suite Time: 6:00 p.m.
Cost: FREE (Donations welcome!)
PLEASE RSVP BY CALLING 452-3811

Written by:
Becca Korby
Executive Director
Healthy Families of Clallam County
1210 East Front Street Suite C
Port Angeles, WA. 98362
OFF: 360-452-3811

[Editor's note: There is no scheduled CLE credit for these events, but you may be able to obtain permission by filling out Form One with the WSBA. Please let us know if you have success with obtaining CLE credit.
Mark Baumann]

Significant changes are proposed, such as re-structuring bi-polar disorder, and the personality disorders in Axis II are proposed to be significantly revamped.

The DSM 5 is scheduled for publication in 2013.

He also specializes in treating couples and individuals that have relationship, work performance or aging issues.

Peter O. Casey, LICSW
Psychotherapist
113 South Eunice St.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
(360) 461-3097
powencasey@hotmail.com