Monday, March 25, 2024
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Via ZOOM
Guest Coach: Cinnie Noble, LL.M.(ADR), C.Med, PCC
As dispute resolution practitioners we incorporate various techniques to engage people in conflict – to help them open-up and express themselves, to communicate their positions and interests, to gain insights, to calm down, and so on. Asking questions is just one of the tools we use in our work to help facilitate these things and the problem-solving process, in general. AND of course, it’s an important skill that essentially leads the mediation conversation. To some extent, these skills have become second nature in our efforts to focus parties on the issues in dispute and what they are aiming to achieve. However, JADE’s speaker this month- our friend and colleague Cinnie Noble – will invite us to challenge ourselves and expand our own thinking about questioning skills as she shares some things she has learned about this ‘art’ in her work as a mediator and conflict management coach.
Cinnie Noble, LL.M. (ADR), C.Med., PCC
Cinnie Noble – a former lawyer with a Master of Law in ADR – is a Chartered Mediator (C. Med) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC). In 1999, Cinnie developed a one-on-one process known as conflict management coaching – an ADR mechanism that focuses on coaching individual clients to strengthen their conflict competence, to maximize their ability to engage in conflict independently or, to participate in mediation. Besides coaching and teaching her coaching model to DR practitioners and others Cinnie continues to mediate interpersonal type disputes. She is co-author of the book entitled Mediation Advocacy: Effective Client Representation in Mediation Proceedings and author of Family Mediation: A Guide for Lawyers. Cinnie also authored 2 coaching books: Conflict Mastery: Questions to Guide You and Conflict Management Coaching: The CINERGY™ Model. More on Cinnie may be found at www.cinergycoaching.com