9:30

Registration

10.30

Welcome to Country
Opening remarks

Margaret Halsmith, Chair, LEADR and
Carol Powell, Chair, LEADR NZ

10.45

Official opening

The Hon Rob Hulls MP, Victorian Deputy Premier and Attorney-General A

11.30

Headline! What are we about?

David Richbell*, award winning author
and CEDR mediator, UK A

12:30

Lunch

1.30

Hot topics in ADR

Fiona Hollier, Chief Executive Officer, LEADR

2.15

The future of ADR in Australia

Professor The Hon Murray Kellam AO QC A

2.45

Taking your practice global:  IMI Certification

Irena Vanenkova, Executive Director, International Mediation Institute, Netherlands A

3:00

Afternoon tea

3.30

Ideas Cafe: A high energy, table-based exchange of ideas

Lawyers acting as mediators: ethical dilemmas in the shift from advocacy to impartiality

Naomi Cukier & Natascha Boehm*

Deception as a negotiation tactic: fact or fiction

Avnita Lakhani*

Improving behaviours that promote more effective conflict resolution

Sharon Hudson*

‘Get them in – get them sorted – get them out’: assessing the role of the mediator

Ron Dunsire*

Corporate values and signature behaviours in the Royal Australian Navy – Do they have a role in conflict resolution?

Commander James Unkles*

Mediators: born or made?

Helen Collins*

Mediation: the answer in medical negligence litigation

Campbell Bridge SC*

Tone and body language: what is the mediator really saying?

Eduarda Abissamra*

Conflict coaching in the ADR practitioner’s toolkit

Lynora Brooke*

Does your personality affect your mediator style?

Heidi Smith*

'A hard nut' – multi-party negotiation and consensus building in the macadamia industry

Dr Paul Gibson*

A right moment to mediate

John McGruther*

Court-annexed mediation in Hong Kong

Professor Sarah Hilmer*

Mediating an estate dispute: "Where greed is not good"

Roland Peterson*

IMI certification

Irena Vanenkova

Increasing the odds of reaching agreement

Wendy Kazianis & David Fleming*

Mediation or education? What do people really want and need?

Danny Crossman*

4.15

Hot Topics, Hot Seats

Geoff Sharp, LEADR Fellow and Panel: The Honourable Justice Jennifer Davies, Nadja Alexander, Peter Condliffe and Margaret Halsmith A

5.15

Insights: What have we learnt?

Fiona Hollier

5:30

End

7:00

Conference Welcome Reception >>
County Court of Victoria

Welcome by Neil Twist, Director, Appropriate Dispute Resolution Directorate

8:00

Registration

8.30

Welcome and review

Fiona Hollier

8.45

The Strong Mountain Problem:
A rolling exploration of the similarities and differences in how we do our work

Peter Adler*, President, Keystone Centre, Colorado USA A

10:45

Morning tea

11.15

Arrows and bananas: a discussion of basic communication theory, the vagaries of English with a focus on co-worker conflicts

David Hurley* A

Making a genuine effort and achieving self-determination in FDR

Rachael Field* A

Ending the self deception paradox

John Cosgrove* (&
Chad Ford) A

Artful inquiry: what does it mean to be an artful mediation practitioner?

Samantha Hardy &
Cathryn Lloyd* A

The collaborative experience – the no court alternative

Catherine Gale &
Tania Sourdin with Anne Ardagh A

12:45

Lunch, with Buzz working groups

1.45

Navigating workplace disputes: mediating in the shark-infested waters of organisations

David Bryson*

Training mediators’ brains: what is worth doing in the name of continuing education

Joanna Kalowski* A

A values approach to mediation

Dr Lola Akin Ojelabi A

The ‘partial’ mediator: balancing ideology and the reality

Pat Marshall* A

ADR in the Pacific

Panel: Justice Ambeng Kandakasi, George Fox and Nadja Alexander A

2.30

Pathways to mediation: Putting the resolute back into resolution

Tony Newport*

Mediation education reflecting mediation practice: a synthesis of learning from the Harvard Mediation Pedagogy Conference

Jill Howieson* A

The impact of participants’ personality structures on workplace mediation outcomes

Jenny Ellison* A

Communication matters in health care

Anne Donaldson* A

The construction industry is great for creating disputes

David Richbell* A

3:15

Afternoon tea

3:45

Working with emotions in mediation

Shoshana Faire* A

Collaborative family dispute resolution

Lorraine Lopich

A cross-cultural exploration of our role as peace-makers in helping to calm fears during cross-cultural mediations

Sarah Blake &
Brenda Muthamuluwuy* A

Good faith, bad faith and ugly behaviour? Negotiation is about getting what you want. Will any tactic do and if not what can the mediator do about it?

Steve Lancken* A

Your practice as a business

Geoff Sharp* A

Insights: What have we learnt?

5:30

End

7:00

LEADR 21st Celebration Dinner >>
National Gallery of Victoria

8:00

Registration

8.45

Welcome and review

Geoff Sharp, LEADR Fellow

Adjudication
stream

Full details >>

9.00

ADR overview

Ian Govey, Deputy Secretary of the Attorney General’s Department speaking on behalf of the Attorney General, the Honourable Robert McClelland MP A

8.45

Welcome to join main stream of 'kon gres

9.30

Quality in mediation – competing interests

Professor Tania Sourdin* A

9.30
Introduction, overview & empirical data

Scott Pettersson &
Michael Brand

10:15

Morning tea

10.45

Resolving conflict in workplace teams: beyond mediation

Kathryn McEwen* A

Pro vision – enhancing your skills to provide professional support

Judy Dell* &
Annabel James A

Cross-cultural mediation – how to fail mediation in the first 5 minutes!

Royal Reed* A

What is it about me? What is it about mediation?

David Rogers &
Jill Howieson* A

A piece of the peace: designing effective peace agreements

Alysoun Boyle* A

10.45
The judicial view

The Hon Robert McDougall

11.20
The Government view

Andrew Wallace

11.45
East meets West – views of Security of Payments

Philip Loots

Lead us not into confusion – aspects of the Vic legislation

St John Frawley & Jeffrey Wilson

11.30

Action learning for constructive workplace relations

Nicole Cullen*,
David Moore &
Lynne Witynski A

Mediating with hurt and angry parents

Kathy Tetu & Charlotte Thaarup-Owen* A

Collaborating through culture clash: tools from the Canadian Navy

Commander Barbara Carter* A

Invisible forces: the mediator’s role in influencing the limits of possibility in mediation outcomes

Anne Sutherland-Kelly* A

Mediator negotiating styles: What do we bring to the table?

Linda Fisher* A

1.00

Lunch, with Buzz working groups

2.00

Headline! ...

David Richbell* A

2.00
The adjudicator's view

David Campbell-Williams & Toby Shnookal

2.45
The judicial panel

The Hon Justice Robert McDougall, The Hon Justice Peter Vickery, His Hon Judge John McGill, His Hon Judge Frank Shelton

2.30

Eye of the Storm Politics:
How mediators and facilitators can apply their skills to the challenge of "sustainability"

Peter Adler* A

3:15

Review and reflections
Concluding comments, thanks and farewells

Fiona Hollier
Margaret Halsmith

3:45

End

3.45
2350 hours – the end is near

Scott Pettersson

4.00-4.30
Adjudicator's Forum meeting

Peter Sarlos

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Informal drinks