“Effective parenting has nothing to do with pointing out our faults and everything to do with working out solutions.”

 Why Does it Have to Be a Custody Battle? Why Not a Parenting Plan? Learn to Mediate Parenting Plans To Help Families Deal with the Issues of Custody and Visitation.

• Mediators can help parents make decisions together.
• Parents can focus on parenting and not their own conflicts.
• Kids do better when parents work together.
• Parents may not be on the best of terms, but they can still be excellent parents.

Dispute Resolution Centers are recruiting individuals to be trained to assist our community members to work through family conflict productively. This training will focus on acquiring techniques to manage conflict in collaborative and productive ways when tempers are flying and focus on the kids. We will deal with language, violence and other 'destructive' behavior head on. Be prepared that materials, language and film clips may be considered vulgar and are selected to assist students to acclimate to high energy conflicts. This workshop is facilitated by Duke Fisher, renowned New York State Certified trainer of Mediation who has been exploring the cutting edge of Conflict Management and Mediation since 1988.