Self Reflection in Action
February 08 - February 15, 2020
Gary Friedman and Norman Fischer
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About the Retreat
Using Our Inner Selves to Help People in Conflict
Powerful emotional currents flow through us as professionals who work with conflict. We size up our clients and carry judgments, frustrations and gut feelings about them in our bodies. The frustration, exasperation, anger and other difficult emotions that are part of daily life in this field hold the key to a deeper connection to the parties who come to us. And with connections come new more satisfying possibilities for resolving their conflicts.
In this Self Reflection for Conflict Professionals Intensive (“SCPI”) program, through self-reflective exercises, role play, dialogue and meditation, we will create an opportunity for us all to have a deep intimate examination of our work lives and our relationship to conflict.
Payment & Cancellation Policy
Training fee: $1,299. A $500 deposit is required to hold your place. If a deposit is made, the balance is due by November 1, 2019. If registering after November 1, 2019, payment in full is required at the time of registration.
Refund policy: a full refund will be made if cancelled prior to September 1, 2019. A 50% refund will be made for cancellations between September 1 and November 1 unless we are able to fill your place. No refunds will be made after November 1 unless we are able to fill your place.
About the Teachers
Norman Fisher
Norman Fischer is a poet, author, Zen Buddhist priest and former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. As founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org), his work with meditation practice has taken him into many corners of contemporary American life including the arts, education, hospice training, education, and lawyering as a spiritual path. Recently, he began offering meditation training to engineers at Google. Norman has worked with the Center for Understanding in Conflict on inquiries that focus on bringing the calmness and insight of meditation practice directly into conflict situations. His latest book is Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of the Odyssey to Navigate Life’s Perils and Pitfalls (from Simon and Schuster, June 2008).
Gary Friedman
Gary J. Friedman has been practicing law as a mediator with Mediation Law Offices in Mill Valley, California since 1976, integrating mediative principles into the practice of law and the resolution of legal disputes. Co-founder of the Center for Understanding in Conflict (formerly the Center for Mediation in Law), he has been teaching mediation since 1980.Prior to his work as a mediator, he practiced law as a trial lawyer with Friedman and Friedman in Bridgeport, Connecticut. After several years as an advocate, he sought a new approach to resolving disputes through increasing the participation of the parties in the resolution of their differences. At that time, he and his colleague, Jack Himmelstein, began to develop the Understanding-based model that is now practiced extensively in the United States and Europe. As one of the first lawyer mediators and a primary force in the current mediation movement, he has used this model to complete over one thousand mediations in the last two decades, including numerous two-party and multi-party disputes in the commercial and non-profit realms, in the area of intellectual property, real estate, corporate, personnel, partnership formations and dissolutions, and family law.