The Clallam County Bar Association is hosting Law at the Landing this Saturday from noon to 3:00. This drop-in clinic is a great way to serve your community without committing to long term representation. Contact Shauna Rogers if you are available to volunteer at 360.504.2422.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
De-escalating intense emotions: The secrets of a hostage negotiator
Mark Baumann will be chairing this CLE, presented by Bruce Wind, with panelists Mark Baumann, Joe Shaub and Molly Kenny
Location: WSBA CLE Conference Center, Century Square building, 1501 4th Ave., Ste. 308, Seattle WA
Date: June 10, 2013
Sponsored by: Washington State Bar Association and the WSBA Alternative Dispute Resolution section
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Mark Baumann assisted at HCI high conflict training
Mark Baumann was invited to assist at Bill Eddy’s two-day seminar Mediating High Conflict Disputes: Advanced Training for Dispute Resolution Professionals. The seminar was hosted by the High Conflict Instute and Mediate BC, and held in Vancouver B.C., March 29-30, 2012.
- (Left to right) Mark Baumann (Port Angeles), teaching assistant, Michael Lomax (Victoria B.C.), co-presenter, Bill Eddy (San Diego), presenter, and Kari Boyle (Vancouver B.C.), Mediate BC executive director. Mediating High Conflict Disputes: Advanced Training for Dispute Resolution Professionals, Vancouver B.C., 2012
Mr. Eddy presented a new paradigm for mediating with high conflict people that focuses on the future and making proposals, rather than focusing on facts and interests. For a summary of the training see Mr. Eddy’s summary at www.highconflictinstitute.com.
New web site for Alternative Dispute Resolution section of Washington State Bar Association
The Alternative Dispute Resolution section of the Washington State Bar Association announces their web page at www.wsba-adr.org. Any person interested in mediation, arbitration, restorative justice, high conflict or other alternative methods to resolving conflict may sign up. Membership in the ADR section is suggested but not required.
The site offers web site members the opportunity to create a free customizable page within the site, which is searchable by lawyers and the general public. It also offers information, news and events about ADR in Washington.
You may join the section at http://www.wsba.org/Legal-Community/Sections
Mark Baumann appointed chair of WSBA ADR section Media & Communication Committee
Mark Baumann has been a member of the executive committee for the Washington State Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Section since 2008. In October, 2011, he was
appointed to the chair of the sections Media and Communications Committee. Previously, he served on the Newsletter, Website and Education committees.
The WSBA ADR section is dedicated to promoting the informed use and best practices for ADR in Washington.
Mark Baumann presented at the Oregon Mediation Association 2011 conference
Mark Baumann and Rachel Hardies presented High Conflict Cases: The Courage to Look at Your Behavior, at the November 4-5, 2011, Oregon Mediation Association’s annual conference, on behalf of Bill Eddy’s High Conflict Institute (HCI). Presentation materials for their OMA and NW DR conference are available here, and include their HCP Identifiers checklist, HCP Solutions Table, Equipoise article, and resource bibliography for mediators. Other materials and articles can be found at HCI.
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.
Angeles Mediation Pro Bono Domestic Violence Mediation Project
Announcement:
Angeles Mediation Pro Bono Domestic Violence Mediation Project
In 2011-2012, Mark Baumann, JD, Rachel Hardies, MA, and Angeles Mediation, will be operating a pro bono Domestic Violence Mediation Project to help low income families who have had allegations or a history of domestic violence resolve conflict through mediation. Domestic violence may involve physical and/or emotional abuse, and/or may be perceived as a “high conflict” case. These are difficult cases that require special handling and attention, particularly to both parties needs and safety.
The interdisciplinary DV Mediation Project is an access to justice oriented project, offering people of modest means an alternative to litigation that may also offer a more effective method of managing entrenched conflict patterns. Part of the purpose of the project is to develop and report on effective mediation techniques for domestic violence situations.
The DV Mediation Project encourages attorney and advocate participation and the development of safety plans. Attorneys and advocates interested in participating in the Project may contact Mark Baumann or Nancy Rohde, and are encouraged to attend the Quileute Tribe’s unique DV training opportunity by the Southwest Center for Law and Policy in La Push on June 28 and 29. (This training is free and offers CLE credit. For more information see https://clallamcountybar.com/2011/06/03/842/)
Referrals to the DV Mediation Project will only be accepted from professionals, including lawyers, therapists and advocates. Parties interested in mediation services should ask professionals they are working with for a referral, and/or call Healthy Families for advocate and safety planning services in this or any DV situation. If you are interesting in contributing to the project, as a volunteer mediator, advocate, advisor, counselor, educator, concept developer, or otherwise, please call for more information.
Mark Baumann
360-452-8688
Rachel Hardies
360-670-2336
Healthy Families, 360-452-2381
WSBA ADR section web site update
The ADR section of the WSBA has implemented a new web site at www.wa-adr.ning.com. It is based on Web 2.0 standards and is oriented around a social networking and marketing orientation, which allows section members tools to collaborate and market their practices on a searchable site. Parts of the site are only accessible by members, and other parts are viewable by the public, which includes the ability to search for section members / mediators by geography skill and interests.
The ADR section provides services to people practicing ADR, and also for users of ADR services.
Peacekeepers update
Peacekeepers, the Port Angeles High School peer mediation program, is looking for adult volunteers and student mediators.
Attorneys, mediators and other adults interest in mediation, are needed to serve as supervisory committee members, and/or trainers. Peacekeepers is a PAHS program, but is maintained by school staff/administration and non-school community members. The primary functions for the adults is not to conduct or assist with mediations, but to:
- train student mediators, for the annual fall training and ongoing trainings throughout the year
- assist with debriefing/training for student mediators as needed
- ensure student recruitment occurs every year
- ensure a program coordinator is selected and trained every year
- assist with raising funds (if and when needed)
- be responsible for maintaining and reviewing student mediation contracts
- act as a liaison with the school district
- develop and maintain program policies
- perform any other functions as necessary to ensure the continuing health of the program.
An initial 2-day training for the program will be held on Thursday and Friday, February 5th and 6th, 2010. Interested adults and students should contact Mark Baumann or Taylor Schraudner at the numbers below.
The February training will be conducted by CRU Institute, a Bellevue company specializing in setting up high school peer mediation programs and curriculum.
Peacekeepers is a joint community effort supported by the Port Angeles High School, Angeles Mediation, Vista, the North Olympic Volunteer Center and the North Olympic Youth Corps. Funding for the cost of training was provided by a generous grant from the Port Angeles Education Foundation, Angeles Mediation, and the Kiwanis of Port Angeles.
Taylor Schraudner, PAHS Vista Volunteer, will serve as the volunteer program coordinator for the 2009-2010 school year.
Taylor Schraudner, Vista, 360-504-1201
Mark Baumann, Angeles Mediation, 360-452-8688
AngelesMediation.com
Mediation training
Laura O’Neill from Peninsula Dispute Resolution Center advised today that there is another traning coming up in April. The cost of the 40 hour training is $495.00 per attendee and a total of 36 CLE credits will be awarded to any who attend.
The program is scheduled for April 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25. The program will be in Sequim. You can check the website at PDRC.org to view the flyer for additional details such as hours, location and registration information.
Ms. O’Neill also indicated that she is working on a program targeted at attorneys which will have an evening schedule over a number of weeks. If you are interested in a program in the evening, you may want to express your interest directly to her.