3rd EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCE
(ECC)
LEARN GLOBALLY - EXPAND LOCALLY
Dispute resolution in the new
millennium is not „either/or“ nor “black and
white”. The growing complexity of the world we live in leads
to an increase in conflict and dispute in circumstances where time
is frequently of the essence. Although we are well trained and
conflict resolution is our daily stock and trade, we still tend to
avoid conflict and focus on solutions rather than the conflict
itself.
By this we overlook our most
important resource for solving the problem: the conflict and its
dynamics. It is for this reason, after careful deliberation that we
chose “Challenging Conflict” as the 2010 congress' key
issue! Born out of the understanding that conflict always has a
jurisdictional and emotional side, Munich itself has a more than a
25 year tradition of interdisciplinary conflict resolution.
From very early on, a body for
understanding and cooperation regarding the clients’ conflicts
was established. And today there are several centers of counseling
throughout the city, financed by private and public partnerships,
where families can seek interdisciplinary and meditative help.
Munich is the first metropolis in
Germany to have an interdisciplinary team within its Family Court,
which meets on a monthly basis to bring the idea of an overall
responsibility for all conflict- parties to court and into conflict
resolution.
We will raise the question of
whether there can be an effective interdisciplinary team in and out
of court and what the risks and likelihood are to spread
collaboration, also into the court system. Answers will be given in
a plenary session with the head of the Munich
family court and later on by all participants in a
world-café.
Drs. Hans-Georg and Gisela Mähler
brought Jack Himmelstein and
Gary Friedman to Munich in the late
1980´s to hold the first interdisciplinary workshop on
Mediation. By then an unusual setting even for the Masters of
Mediation. From this source springs the 3rd European Conference on
Collaborative Practice and we are proud to present
Jack
Himmelstein and Gary Friedman , authors of CHALLENGING
CONFLICT: MEDIATION THROUGH UNDERSTANDING as key note speakers.
There will be 5 pre-congress
workshops for in-depth and focused CP learning opportunities,
including a Train the Trainers by the IACP , also translated into French.
There will be about 30 workshops in
English, French and German on Friday and Saturday, plus 20
presenters from the US,Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland,
France and Belgium, who will make this interdisciplinary conference
an across-the-board, well rounded platform for networking and
information gathering/exchanging for lawyers, coaches, mediators,
family therapists, child experts, divorce consultants and financial
specialists.
This conference will be of interest
to all levels of participants from beginners to intermediate
practitioners and up to advanced practitioners and even trainers.
This Conference is sposored by:
