MCFM Annual Meeting and Professional Development Workshop

***It's a two-fer: Save your seat for MCFM's annual meeting . . . and then see John Fiske and Diane Neumann in action!***

MCFM Annual Meeting and Workshop
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Wellesley Free Library
530 Washington Street
Wellesley, Massachusetts

MCFM's brief business meeting to elect directors and officers will be immediately followed by the Professional Development Workshop.

WORKSHOP TIME: Right after the Annual Meeting until 4 p.m.

WORKSHOP TOPIC: "Mediation Timing, Client Inertia and Intervention"

PRESENTERS: John A. Fiske, Esq., and Diane Neumann, Esq.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

Diane Neumann and John A. Fiske will lead an interactive program exploring the many dilemmas for the mediator traceable to timing, readiness, inertia, and the different psychological stages of the couple.

For example, a client cancels appointments and does not seem interested in returning to mediation. Or what can the mediator do when clients start to stall as they get closer and closer to completing their agreement? What are useful responses when one spouse wants to meet next week and the other spouse is busy for two months?

What other indicators do you see influencing your own sense of timing? What works for you and what is a dead end? Bring your favorite dilemmas for discussion with experts.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

John A. Fiske is an award-winning family mediator and mediation trainer. He co-founded and served as president of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, and he has been co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Family Law Section. John has mediated more than 2,000 divorces, separations, and post-marital contracts to help couples stay married.

Diane Neumann has been mediating since 1981, and she is the author of two books: Divorce Mediation: How to Cut the Cost and Stress of Divorce and Choosing a Divorce Mediator. Her mediation practice employs four attorney mediators and one consulting psychologist, and the practice has offices in Waltham, Newton and Milton. Diane is a past president of the National Academy of Family Mediators.

WORKSHOP COST: It's free!

RSVP: So that we can plan for space, materials and refreshments, please RSVP to admin@MCFM.org.

HOW TO GET THERE: Directions to Wellesley Free Library

 
Both MCFM members and guests are encouraged to attend.

Invite a colleague to come with you. Prospective members are always welcome!