Schedule
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| Day | Time | Type | Topic | Speaker(s) | Session Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEDNESDAY | |||||
| Wednesday, Nov. 6 | 4-6pm | Registration | |||
| THURSDAY | |||||
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 7-8am | Exhibitor Setup | |||
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 7am - on-going | Registration | |||
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 7:30-8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 8:30-9:45am | Keynote/General Session | Ken Cloke | Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Family Conflict Resolution | |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 9:45-10am | AM Break | |||
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 1 - A (part 1) | Mediation | Ken Cloke | The Logic of Emotions in Divorce: How to Mediate Anger, Fear, Grief and Shame |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 1 - B (part 1) | Mediation | Ken Neumann and John Fiske | Using Mediation to Help Couples Stay Married |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 1 - C | Financial | Nancy Hetrick | Beginning and Advanced Forensics for CDFA Holders |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 1 - D | Mediation | Kate Fanger | How Can You Say That? |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 1 - E | Financial & Mediation | Jeffrey Fink, Linda Cohan | Working Together Better-Stronger Team Dynamics |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 11:45-12:45pm | Lunch | |||
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 1 - A (part 2) | Mediation | Ken Cloke | The Logic of Emotions in Divorce: How to Mediate Anger, Fear, Grief and Shame |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 1 - B (part 2) | Financial & Mediation | Ken Neumann and John Fiske | Using Mediation to Help Couples Stay Married |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 2 - C | Mediation | Alex Glassman and Steve Erickson | Adjuticative Creep |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 2 - D | Financial & Mediation | Beth Aarons, Justin Kelsley & Kim Whelan | Creative College Planning Resolutions |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 2 - E | Mediation | Kira Nurieli | Conflicting Values Between Parents |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 2:30-2:45pm | PM Break #1 | |||
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 2:50-4:30pm | Breakout 3 - A | Mediation | Amanda Singer, Vicki Shemin, Donna Petrocelli, Kristyn Carmichael, Cheryl Glazer and Marilyn Mcknight | Women in ADR |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 2:50-4:30pm | Breakout 3 - B | Financial & Mediation | Paul Fair and Robert Bordett | What Would Gandhi Do? |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 2:50-4:30pm | Breakout 3 - C | Financial | Adam Minsky | Managing Student Loans in Divorce |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 2:50-4:30pm | Breakout 3 - D | Financial & Mediation | Karen Levitt, Karen Ela Kenny, Susan Miller | Innovative & Strategic Use of Neutrals |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 2:50-4:30pm | Breakout 3 - E | Practice Management | Barbara Manousso | Modernizing the Family Practice |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 4:30-4:45pm | PM Break #2 | |||
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 4:50-6:30pm | Breakout 4 - A | Mediation | Lawrence Jones | Mediating Divorces Involving Children with Autism |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 4:50-6:30pm | Breakout 4 - B | Financial & Mediation | Chris Chen, Lili Vasileff | Ethics for Mediators, Lawyers & Financial Planners |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 4:50-6:30pm | Breakout 4 - C | Financial & Mediation | Renee Senes | Financial Challenges in Mediating a Grey Divorce |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 4:50-6:30pm | Breakout 4 - D | Mediation | Kathryn Lazar | Radical Candor and Other Communication Strategies |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 4:50-6:30pm | Breakout 4 - E | Mediation | Woody Mosten | Case Consultation Workshop |
| FRIDAY | |||||
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 7:30-8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 8:30 - 9:45am | Keynote/ General Session | David Hoffman | What Makes People Tick: A Divorce Professionals Guide to Our Multiple Parts | |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 9:45-10am | AM Break | |||
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 5 - A (part 1) | Financial & Mediation | Marilyn McKnight and Steve Erickson | Child Support Account |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 5 - B (part 1) | Mediation | Michael Aurit, Amanda Singer, Justin Kesley, and Don Saposnek | Generational Panel |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 5 - C | Practice Management | Christine Hammond | How to Make and Win Your Point with a Narcissist |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 5 - D | Mediation | Patricia Papernow | Meeting the (Big) Challenges of "Blended Families" |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 10-11:40am | Breakout 5 - E | Financial | Kurt Czarnowski | Social Security: What You Need to Know in Divorce |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | |||||
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 11:45am-12:45pm | Lunch & Awards | |||
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 5 - A (part 2) | Financial & Mediation | Marilyn McKnight and Steve Erickson | Child Support Account |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 5 - B (part 2) | Mediation | Michael Aurit, Amanda Singer, Justin Kesley, and Don Saposnek | Generational Panel |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 6 - C | Financial | Cynthia Haddad | Divorce and Special Needs: Defining the Best Interests |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 6 - D | Mediation | Rachel Zamore | Navigating Divorce Ambivalence with Integrity |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 6 - E | Mediation | Carl Viniar | Mediation on the shoulders of the Bible and Talmud |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 2:30-2:40pm | PM Break #1 | |||
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 2:40-4:20pm | Breakout 7 - A | Mediation | Don Saposnek | What Mediators Can Learn from Social Science Relationship Research: New Perspectives on Anger and Conflict |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 2:40-4:20pm | Breakout 7 - B | Financial | Ivy Menchel | How Business Owner's Create Liquidity in Divorce |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 2:40-4:20pm | Breakout 7 - C | Financial | Sandy Voit | Following Up with the Client Post Divorce |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 2:40-4:20pm | Breakout 7 - D | Mediation | Galit Sneh Lurie | Enneagram- mediating personality based differences |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 2:40-4:20pm | Breakout 7 - E | Mediation | Michael Lang | Reflective Practice |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 4:20-4:30pm | PM Break #2 | |||
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 4:30-6:10pm | Breakout 8 - A | Financial | Michael Garibaldi | Reading Business Valuation Reports |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 4:30-6:10pm | Breakout 8 - B | Marketing | Virginia Colin and Panel | How to Earn a Living as a Family Mediator |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 4:30-6:10pm | Breakout 8 - C | Mediation | Richard Barbieri | The Story Behind the Story, or Human First |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 4:30-6:10pm | Breakout 8 - D | Mediation | Don Saposnek and Chip Rose | Trainwrecks in Mediation |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 4:30-6:10pm | Breakout 8 - E | Financial & Mediation | Steve Abel | From QDRO to COAP and RBCO: Decoding the World of Federal Pensions |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 6:15-7:15pm | Welcome Reception | |||
| SATURDAY | |||||
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 8-9am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 9-10:40am | Breakout 9 - A (part 1) | Mediation | Darcia Tudor | Cultural Myths Undermining Mediation Process |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 9-10:40am | Breakout 9 - B (part 1) | Financial & Mediation | Laurie Israel | Pre and Post Marital |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 9-10:40am | Breakout 9 - C | Financial & Mediation | John Fiske, Karen Cohen, Susan Miller & Renee Senes | Mediation and Financial Planning |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 9-10:40am | Breakout 9 - D | Financial | Lili Vasileff | Divorce by the Decades: 30's, 40's and 50's Plus |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 9-10:40am | Breakout 9 - E | Mediation | Crystal Thorpe | Innovating from Elder Mediation's Hybrid Approach |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 9-10:40am | Breakout 9 - F | Financial | David Goodman | Understanding the Small Business |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 10:40-10:50am | AM Break | |||
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 10:50am-12:30pm | Breakout 9 - A (part 2) | Mediation | Darcia Tudor | Cultural Myths Undermining Mediation Process |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 10:50am-12:30pm | Breakout 9 - B (part 2) | Financial & Mediation | Laurie Israel | Pre and Post Marital |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 10:50am-12:30pm | Breakout 10 - C | Mediation | Oran Kaufman, Kristina Bordieri, David Sacks and Betsy Williams | Mandatory Mediation is Not an Oxymoron |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 10:50am-12:30pm | Breakout 10 - D | Mediation | Tina Zhang | Intimate Partner Abuse |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 10:50am-12:30pm | Breakout 10 - E | Mediation | Nadia Shahram | Professional Ethics |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | Breakout 10 - F | Financial | Melinda Milberg | Estate planning and Divorce | |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 12:30-12:50pm | PM Break #1 -(check out of hotel if needed) | |||
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 11 - A Brown Bag Lunch | presenting partner | Conscious Co-Parenting Institute | pending |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 11 - B Brown Bag Lunch | Financial & Mediation | Jennifer Hawthorne, Beth Aarons, Halee Burg, Justin Kelsey and Crystal Thorpe | Bringing Experts in and Preserving the Safe Space |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 11 - C Brown Bag Lunch | Mediation | Liam Lustburg | Divorce From the Child's Perspective |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 11 - D Brown Bag Lunch | Mediation | PMBS Board | Recent Developments in Creating a National Examination for the Advanced Credentialing of Divorce and Family Mediators |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 11 - E Brown Bag Lunch | Financial & Mediation | Vicki Shemin | Sex, Drugs & Rock'N Roll & What Happened to the Money |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 12:50-2:30pm | Breakout 11 - F Brown Bag Lunch | Financial | Debra Smith, David Goodman & Cynthia Runge | Creative Options to Maximize Money for Parents |
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 2:30-2:45pm | PM Break #2 | |||
| Saturday, Nov. 9 | 2:45-4pm | Keynote/General Session | Fish Bowl Panel | John Fiske & (Ken Neumann Moderating) | Fishbowl Mediation |