The Oregon Mediation Association presents its 2011 Spring Training

• What happens in the brain when a person experiences conflict? 
• What happens in your brain when you try to help others solve conflicts?
  
• What can neuroscience teach us about how to facilitate conflict resolution? 
  
• What lessons does the brain have for preventing future conflicts?  

Explore these questions and learn how to integrate practical tools into your daily work, increasing your ability to help others shift from “stuck” to engaged.

Who Should Attend
Mediators, attorneys, therapists, counselors, managers, social workers, arbitrators, human resource staff, and other professionals who help people manage conflicts. 

• Identify major areas of the brain and how they function and influence conflict.
• Understand how subconscious or involuntary physical, chemical and psychological responses impact us and how we respond to conflict.
• Recognize the brains’ distress signals in ourselves and in others.
• Identify how the brain communicates & learns, and how that’s effected  by stress, fear and conflict.
• Explore the impact of our brains’ processes on acting ethically during conflict and mediation.
  
• Use knowledge of neuroscience to craft new solutions and methods of solving conflicts.

Presenters: Lydia Byhardt Bollinger, MSW, LCSW  & Erin Ruff, J.D.

Lydia Byhardt Bollinger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with certificates in both Marriage & Family Therapy and Trauma Counseling, and has extensive training in child development, grief and loss, and interpersonal neurobiology.  She has trained many groups including parents, teachers, public employees, and supervisors to incorporate neuroscience into their professional and personal lives. 

 Erin Ruff is a conflict resolution specialist, mediator, trainer, and public policy advocate.  She worked with the Oregon courts for 12 years, serving as the Oregon Judicial Department’s primary conflict resolution expert. Erin previously served as Co-chair of OMA’s Standards & Practices Committee and was the inaugural recipient of OMA’s Bryan S. Johnston Award of Excellence.    

The energy and excitement of this training doesn’t need to end Friday afternoon! Join us the following evening, Saturday, June 18th for OMA’s 25th Anniversary Gala celebration!