Friday evening,
May 14,  Saturday May 15 and Sunday afternoon, May 16, 2010

Registration Fee $ 375.00 plus gst,  or Group Rate (*)
Registration Form

This Workshop has two main objectives. One is to provide ‘next level’ learning and training opportunities for our ‘Alumni’ and other Professionals, as many of them have suggested we do. The other is to reach out to a broader range of groups than can be accommodated adequately in our Mediation Centre’s Certificate Program framework.

To accommodate the instructional priorities of different potential groups, we have
organized this interactive Workshop around a combination of generic ‘plenary’ sessions and ‘elective’ specialty sessions. Out of deference to some among our anticipated  ‘constituency of registrants’, we are beginning the weekend on the Friday evening, holding a full-day of sessions on Saturday, and then meeting on the Sunday in the afternoon only.

PROGRAM

Friday, May 14, 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.    Joan McLeod and Ronald R. Price

“Perspectives on Conflict, Its ‘Diagnosis’, and Techniques for Dealing with It”

Saturday. May 15, 9:00 a.m. – Noon

Elective I “Communication Skills in Conflict Resolution Processes”
John S. Curtis and Judy Tetlow

Saturday, May 15, 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. 

Elective III “Community Mediation” 

Wayne Jackson and Maria Stebelsky 

Elective IV Session for MCSO Alumni and other Professionals 

“’ MCSO on Parade’: Best Practices”(with apologies to the annual Berkshire Music Festival event,  “Tanglewood on Parade”) 

Informal presentations & participation by MCSO Members. Contributions from  Alumni invited. Details available upon request and on Web Site. 

Sunday. , May 16, 1:00 p.m. -  3:30 p.m.  

Elective V Advanced Session for MCSO Alumni and other Professionals 

“Cross-Cultural and Diversity Skills for the Conflict Resolution Practitioner” – Group Presentation, Ronald R. Price (Convenor);Facilitator, Heidi Penning, Queen’s University Equity Office 

Elective VI Interest and Employment Based Specialty Groups, working with Group Facilitators and MCSO Trainers 

Specialty Group A Clergy and Church Congregational Communities

Facilitator, Rev. Victoria Fillier; MCSO Trainer, Kimberly Bain, CPF

Specialty Group B Staff in Health Care and Related Fields

Facilitator, Shelley D. Dougan, Kingston General Hospital

MCSO Trainer, Maria Stebelsky

Specialty Group C Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace

Facilitators Mary Lou McCartney and David Parkhill, OPSEU.

MCSO Trainers, Wayne Jackson and Valence Young 

Sunday, May 16, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Team of MCSO Instructors 

Plenary Reporting Back from Specialty Groups

Discussion and Conclusion