Participants will try out one program activity. This session will explore the operation of and impasse-breaking techniques used in the National Association of Securities Dealers' mediation program. Its founding administrators will discuss how they introduced mediation to a new commercial sector, created rules and ethical guides, generated publicity, and responded to competition. The program will also explore the impasse-breaking tools successfully used by their mediators. Children and youth are competing with aging baby-boomers for scarce health care dollars.
Family members fight about who is responsible for caring for older parents.
Social Security needs more tax dollars, but so do education and environmental protection. Key states like Florida, California and Arizona struggle to prepare for unprecedented growth in the numbers of older citizens, while continuing to serve other age groups and interests. Co-facilitators Lucy Moore and Paddy Moore invite our colleagues to discuss these issues, share your perspectives and experiences, and help sharpen our focus on these issues for future conference agendas. MN US Twenty six years ago the first divorce was mediated by a lawyer who was appalled by the impact of the legal divorce upon his family. His passion convinced many that adversarial divorce was inappropriate for families.