Assessing a Party's Capacity to Use Mediation
Facilitated by Jeanne Cleary
Tuesday, June 23 9:30am-11:30am
- Have you had an experience as a mediator where you question whether a party is really able to use mediation?
- Have you wondered about your responsibility/ability to assess this?
- How do we assess whether mediation is a good fit for someone?
- What criteria makes sense for this assessment?
- Please join us for this 2 hr workshop where we will explore these and related questions. We will come up with a framework for thinking about this challenge going forward.
Be sure to bring examples from your own mediation experience!
Pre-requisite: Mediation Training
Only 20 spots available
Facilitated by Jeanne Cleary, mediator/psychotherapist
About Jeanne: Jeanne is a long-time mediator, trainer/teacher, and relational psychotherapist in private practice in Watertown.
She is passionate about human potential through relational engagement.
2017
Call for Nominations
Fifth Annual Mimi Grosser Volunteer
Recognition Award
To celebrate the extraordinary efforts of the CDSC volunteers who fuel our work, we are pleased to call for nominations for the fifth annual Mimi Grosser Volunteer Recognition Award. Named in honor of Mimi Grosser, volunteer extraordinaire at CDSC for more than 25 years, the award will recognize a CDSC volunteer or volunteer team whose work exemplifies the spirit of mediation and whose commitment to CDSC demonstrates an exceptional effort in one or more of the following categories:
- Number of cases mediated or amount of time volunteered at/with CDSC
- Outstanding mediation effort demonstrated
- Exemplary involvement in project(s) or task(s)
The award recipient may be a volunteer CDSC mediator and/or CDSC non-mediator volunteer.
To nominate a CDSC volunteer or volunteer team, please send us the name of the volunteer or volunteer team and a description of their efforts in 100 words or less to:
Client confidentiality will be honored. Please be sure to include your name and e-mail or phone contact information.
Please click here to make a gift to the Mimi Grosser Scholarship Fund. All gifts are used to provide scholarship support for CDSC training participants.
Deadline for nominations is May 12, 2017.
Call for Nominations for the Second Annual Mimi Grosser Volunteer Recognition Award
To celebrate the extraordinary efforts of the CDSC volunteers who fuel our work, we are pleased to call for nominations for the second annual Mimi Grosser Volunteer Recognition Award. Named in honor of Mimi Grosser, volunteer extraordinaire at CDSC for more than 25 years, the award will recognize a CDSC volunteer or volunteer team whose work exemplifies the spirit of mediation and whose commitment to CDSC demonstrates an exceptional effort in one or more of the following categories:
- Number of cases mediated or amount of time volunteered at/with CDSC
- Outstanding mediation effort demonstrated
- Exemplary involvement in project(s) or task(s)
The award recipient may be a volunteer CDSC mediator and/or CDSC non-mediator volunteer.
To nominate a CDSC volunteer or volunteer team, please send us the name of the volunteer or volunteer team and a description of their efforts in 100 words or less to:
Client confidentiality will be honored. Please be sure to include your name and e-mail or phone contact information.
Please click here to make a gift to the Mimi Fund. All gifts are used to provide scholarship support for CDSC training participants,
Deadline for nominations is May 9, 2014.
Harry Manasewich & Judy Abrams 2013 Award Recipients
Congrats to CDSC Mediator, Roberta Kosberg!
Roberta made a donation to CDSC and hit a home run!
She is the lucky winner of the 4 pack of Red Sox tickets.
Thank you to all of those who supported CDSC.
Special thanks to Ralph W. Dunham and Wakefield Co-operative Bank.
Check out some of the 2011 highlights and accomplishments...
A few examples:
- Mediation referrals to CDSC rose 15%
- Completed mediations increased by 15%
- Volunteers donated 41% more hours
Click here to view the complete 2011 Annual Report
CDSC has become involved in a very exciting and innovative collaboration with MA Coalition of Domestic Workers, comprised of member organizations who work with and advocate for nannies, housekeepers and personal care attendants. Together we just completed a 30 hour Mediation Training with 21 domestic workers and employers. The group was rich in cultural diversity as many of the trainees are bi-lingual in Portuguese and Spanish.This initiative will launch a new mediation program to address workplace disputes for domestic workers and employers, a first in Massachusetts and a model for the country.
This Phase One has been coordinated by the Brazilian Immigrant Center and Lydia Edwards, Director of Legal Services, with grant support from the Herman and Frieda Miller Foundation.
Phase Two of this project moves forward now, with support to CDSC from the JAMS Foundation.
Here at CDSC we are keeping a close eye on a case currently before the state Supreme Judicial Court that could negatively impact the work that CDSC does as well as the work of similar organizations around the state.
CDSC proudly announces the recipients of the 2022 Community Peacemaker Award, to be honored at our annual CDSC Bash. Learn more about this special event or reserve your spot now.
CDSC proudly announces the recipients of the 2021 Community Peacemaker Award, to be honored at our annual CDSC Bash. Learn more about this special event or reserve your spot now.
CDSC proudly announces the recipients of the 2017 Community Peacemaker award, to be honored at our annual CDSC Bash. Learn more about this special event or reserve your spot now.