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Mediator Training • Crafting a Positive, Comfortable and Safe Online Space for Mediation • Wiltgen & Chang

Happy Aloha Friday! We hope you are enjoying the end of your week! We have a very important event coming up on April 21, from 12:00pm-1:00pm. It is titled Crafting a Positive, Comfortable and Safe Online Space for Mediation. You’ll want to attend this timely training on virtual mediation with Tracey Wiltgen and Louie Chang. Registration link is below. Further details are in the attached flyer. Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 12 Noon – 1 PM Crafting a Positive, Comfortable and Safe Online Space for Mediation Presenters: Lou Chang, Mediator / Arbitrator, and Tracey Wiltgen, Executive Director, The Mediation Center of the Pacific Practitioners in the spectrum of ADR methods strive to create supportive climates for productive communication between disputing parties. While this is already a challenging goal in a traditional “in-person” environment, it becomes more difficult in a virtual setting devoid of the human touch. The cyber barrier in a virtual environment gives parties in conflict an even greater sense of detachment, and may lead to further disengagement. Lou Chang and Tracey Wiltgen will share experiences, perspectives, and ideas to help ADR practitioners explore the elements of virtual platforms.  New approaches for creating safe spaces, and how foster a hopeful, comfortable, and safe online environment for positive collaborative discussions, will be explored. Register by clicking here:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ComfySafeSpace This Virtual Brown Bag Session is Brought to you by: The Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution and Conflict Resolution Alliance We hope to see you there and wish you a wonderful rest of your day!

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Aloha Response Call

Hawaiʻi State Judiciary • Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution Aloha Response Call  Speaker: Pono Shim CEO, Oahu Economic Development Board & Gifted Storyteller Presented in Partnership With:  Conflict Resolution Alliance (CRA); Hawaiʻi State Bar Association-ADR Section; Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution; and The Mediation Center of the Pacific  Zoom Meet-up • Feb. 11, 2021 • 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.  “The world will turn to Hawaii as they search for world peace because Hawaii has the key…And that key is Aloha!” –Auntie Pilahi Paki (treasured kupuna and author of the Aloha Spirit Law) During this time of imminent change, when words like unprecedented,existential, and challenge permeate social media and news headlines, the people of Hawaiʻi must rise to a call to aloha. Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes 5-7.5, “Aloha Spirit” obliges our leaders in state government to “contemplate and reside with the life force and give consideration to the “Aloha Spirit” which is defined as “the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence.” It is the kuleana of all residents of Hawaiʻi, and especially those of us who work in state and city and county government, policy-making, and the field of Conflict Resolution, to embrace and model this native Hawaiian working philosophy in our personal and professional lives. Join Pono Shim in a special Zoom session where he will share his leadership philosophies that are rooted in his knowledge of aloha passed to him from Auntie Pilahi Paki. Mr. Shim will steer participants to see the pressing social issues individuals, organizations, and communities face today, and offer participants an opportunity to exercise their aloha muscle at the core of these issues where the real work must be done. REGISTER:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AlohaResponseCall  Inquiries? Call: CADR (808) 539-4237 or email CADR@courts.hawaii.gov Speaker bio: Pono…

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Celebrating International Conflict Resolution Day in October!

There are so many events scheduled in October in commemoration of Conflict Resolution Day, October 15, 2020. All events are done virtually, which gives us great opportunities to attend more events and connect with people from various parts of the world! Check out our events page for upcoming conflict resolution & peacebuilding events at https://www.crahawaii.org/events/.  

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Encore Presentation – “Indigenous Conflict Resolution: Practice and Integration”

Please join us for a special event that Conflict Resolution Alliance (CRA) is sponsoring! This will be an encore presentation of “Indigenous Conflict Resolution: Practice and Integration” followed by a live questions and answer via zoom with the speakers on Friday, October 23 from 12 PM to 2:30 PM Hawai’i time. This event has been approved by the Hawaiʻi State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 2 CLE credits (1 CLE credit hour and 1 Ethics credit hour). Register at https://indigenousconflict.eventbrite.com. Program Summary: Indigenous conflict resolution practices, including Hoʻoponopono and native peacemaking, have been used by both Native Hawaiian and Native American groups to address conflict in families and the greater community. A distinguished panel of legal academics, practitioners, and peacemakers will probe the possibilities and implications of integrating indigenous conflict resolution practices in the practice of law and the court system. Co-Sponsors: Hawaiʻi State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, Ku’ikahi Mediation Center, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, Maui Mediation Services, The Mediation Center of the Pacific, and West Hawai’i Mediation Center. Special Thank You: The Hawai’i State Judiciary Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, The King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, Native Hawaiian Bar Association, and ‘Ōlelo Community Media A copy of the event flyer is attached below.  For questions regarding event logistics, please contact us at info@crahwaii.org.  

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Difficult Conversation Series Virtual Workshop!

Join us for the Difficult Conversation Series that is a series of six virtual interactive workshops that will help you be ready to have difficult conversations in our professional and personal lives. More information in attachment and at https://difficultconversation.eventbrite.com.

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Your CRA has been busy planning virtual events for you!

The year 2020 has been truely unique. The challenges we have faced revealed our personal and community strengths and weaknesses, made us re-evaluate many aspects of our lives, and enabled us to make numerous pivots and adjustments in reaction. As we continue to ride the waves of new realities, your Conflict Resolution Alliance (CRA) has been busy planning virtual events to help you excel in resolving conflicts and building peace in our new norm!To kick off the fall events, the “Talk Story” event is scheduled on August 26, 2020 for you to share & learn Best Practices & Regulatory Considerations of Remote ADR Platforms, followed by a series of seven “Difficult Conversation” workshops to help you navigate those conversations well. Hope you can all join us! All events are virtual and you don’t have to leave your office or home to attend. (And as long as you have a shirt on, you meet the event dress code, too 🙂 )  Check out all CRA events along with other conflict resolution/peace building events information posted at our event page. If you know of any events that will help develop peacebuilders in Hawaii you would like us to share on our event page, please reach out at our contact page.

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The Unprecedented Time Stressing You Out?

Aloha Conflict Resolution Alliance Community! We could all use some help in finding peace in the new norm we are living in now to help us continue our important work in helping others resolve conflicts peacefully. We wanted to share information about the free online training opportunity presented by: The Hawai‘i State Judiciary Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution & Matsunaga Institute for Peace   “De-stressing: Laughing Your Way Through These Unprecedented Times” with Tom DiGrazia Friday, June 5, 2020 11 AM -12:15 PM HST Register here, https://bit.ly/3cUnTTP (Details for logging into the Zoom meeting will be provided the week of the event)   About Event: Mediation Meets Meditation:  Learn Yoga exercises that can be done from the comfort of your remote workplace in order to de-stress. No prior experience necessary.   About Tom DiGrazia: Tom  has been a lawyer and professional peacemaker/mediator for 50 years and has studied, practiced and taught Yoga since 1975. As a registered 500-hr.-E-RYT with the Yoga Alliance, he teaches private classes at the YSK Yoga studio in Kailua, Hawai‘i.   Co-Sponsors: Conflict Resolution Alliance (CRA), Hawai‘i State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section (HSBA-ADR), The Mediation Center of the Pacific (MCP)

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Upcoming Webinar on ODR

Aloha Conflict Resolution Alliance Members, Hope you are well and thriving while staying at home. We wanted to share information about a webinar coming up next week if you want to learn more about ODR… Incorporating ODR in Your Legal and ADR Practice The ADR and Litigation Sections of the HSBA along with Giuseppe Leone will be presenting a web event/webinar. It will be aimed at helping conflict resolution colleagues and attorneys to learn about and to get comfortable with incorporating video conferencing tools in the practice. More information below and in attachment.   “Incorporating ODR in Your Legal and ADR Practice: a One Hour Presentation and Demo by Giuseppe Leone” Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 12 PM Register for Zoom details at, https://bit.ly/2VQtEMs About the Presenter, Giuseppe Leone:  A leading expert ODR practitioner has been a mediator since 1997, and a Zoom user since 2013. He is also a volunteer mediator for the Mediation Center of the Pacific. Giuseppe offers a 2-hour one-on-one, hands-on training “How to Master Online Mediation via Zoom” to experienced mediators and ADR organizations in the USA and Europe. For more information you can visit his website https://www.virtualmediationlab.com/.

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Celebrating Conflict Resolution All Month in October!

October is filled with events about conflict resolution! Many mediation trainings and conflict resolution skill building workshops are happening in October. Here are some free events you may be interested in:  “5:1 Kindness Challenge” Throughout October (Web Event) Chai Time of film screening –“Spark Matsunaga: Warrior Poet” October 8, 2019 3pm-4pm (Honolulu) Panel Discussion –  “Making Connections with Opening Statements: Laying Foundations for Productive Mediation” on October 14, 2019 1:30pm – 3:40pm (Honolulu) Brown Bag Presentation – “Restorative Justice: Post Traumatic Strength & Development!” on October 17, 2019 12pm – 1pm (Hilo) Workshop & Talk Story – “Hate – The Other Four Letter Word” on October 29, 2019 12pm – 2pm (Honolulu) Check out the events page for the full listings.

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“Hate – The Other Four Letter Word” – Workshop & Talk Story

Information about the upcoming Free Workshop & Talk Story Gathering… October 29, 2019 12pm – 2pm Hawaii Supreme Court, MPR 101 Hate. We fear it. We want to control it. Outlaw it. Distance ourselves from its awesome power. Yet, this powerful emotion seems inextricably bonded to our human nature. What’s behind this dynamic emotion? Can we tame it? Ease its hurtful potential? Join us for a journey into the heart of hate as we try to understand the forces behind it. We just might discover some keys that reveal some of its mysteries and channel its destructive energies. Click Here for Flyer Presenters:  José Barzola & Owen Tamamoto Register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hate-the-other-four-letter-word-tickets-74264983565