10/07/2022
40-HOUR DIVORCE & CUSTODY MEDIATION VIRTUAL TRAINING
November 30, December 1, 2, 5, 6, 2022
The Pennsylvania Council of Mediators (PCM) is sponsoring a divorce and custody mediation training that is approved by the Association for Conflict Resolution and meets the training requirements for mediators in the Pennsylvania Custody Regulations (231 Pa. Code Rule 1940.4).
Click here for full information and registration - https://pamediation.org/divorce_training.html.
The PCM Divorce & Custody Mediation Training is ideal for
• Anyone interested in becoming a family mediator
• Experienced mediators who want to expand their practice to include divorce and custody mediation
• Attorneys, financial specialists, child specialists, and coaches seeking to complete the mediation training requirement necessary to become a Collaborative Practitioner member of Collaborative Law Professionals of Southeastern Pennsylvania
• Attorneys who want to switch from adversarial to cooperative dispute settlement
• Participants will be expected to have had basic mediation training or relevant experience.
Through a combination of lecture, coached role-play simulation, discussion and video, this workshop will take participants through the process of divorce and custody mediation from the orientation session to the completed memorandum of understanding. (Note that the legal content will be based on Pennsylvania law.) Participants will get a comprehensive training manual and ready-to-use forms. Participants must participate in all 40 hours to receive a certificate of completion.
Registration fee:
$1,500 before November 1, 2022; $1,600 after November 1, 2022
$140 for 40 PA attorney CLEs (38 substantive & 2 ethics)
$140 for 40 NASW Social Work CEs
Trainers
Zena D. Zumeta, Esq., is internationally known as both a mediator and trainer of mediators. She is president of the Mediation Training & Consultation Institute, Zena Zumeta Mediation Services, and The Collaborative Workplace in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ms. Zumeta is a former board member and president of the Academy of Family Mediators, past president of the Michigan Council for Family and Divorce Mediation, and past Regional Vice President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. Working in the field since 1981, she is an approved civil and family mediator in Michigan, and an approved mediation trainer for Michigan and many other states. She has taught at Hamline University School of Law and is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University School of Law's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, University of Detroit-Mercy Law School, and Cooley Law School.
Cheryl Cutrona, J.D., is the principal of Cutrona Resolutionary Services, offering dispute resolution third-party intervention, restorative practices, conflict coaching, training, and consulting. She has been a mediator since 1986 and a trainer and curriculum developer since 1991. Ms. Cutrona teaches Conflict Management in the Workplace at Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication. She mediates/arbitrates for the U.S. Postal Service REDRESS, EEOC Philadelphia Region, Better Business Bureau, DeMars Associates, and the Pennsylvania Department of Education Office for Dispute Resolution (ODR). Between 1991 and 2019, Ms. Cutrona was the Executive Director of Good Shepherd Mediation Program in Philadelphia. She serves on the Board of the Pennsylvania Bar Association ADR Committee (formerly co-chair).
