C2 – Leveraging the Best in Multiple Intelligence and Appreciative Inquiry Discoveries with Diverse Parties In Mediation – Harold Coleman, Alexia Georgakopoulos and Rebecca Storrow (1.5 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)

In this interactive workshop, we will explore how the most effective mediators build their multiple intelligence quotient. Research shows that the way a mediator views the parties impacts the mediator’s process of mediation. Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences states that experience, culture, and other factors support many different ways to learn and process information, but that the factors are independent of each other, leading to multiple “intelligences.” Mediators who possess multiple intelligences can bring added value to the process of mediating diverse parties.

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