Event Title: WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!? Unconscious Assumptions and Biases in Mediation
Event Type: MCLE Society Session
Location:
Thu, Sep 28
Hanson Bridgett
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?
Experienced mediators and users of mediation will help us to understand these and other common assumptions and implicit biases about the mediation process and to explore bias-reducing strategies.
Time & Location
Sep 28, 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT
Hanson Bridgett, 425 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Presenter: Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakaeuye (Ret.)
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2023
Time: Program is from 1PM-5PM.
Reception is from 5PM-6PM.
Description:
About the event
Underlying every stage of the mediation process are hidden assumptions and biases which often go unexamined:
- Settlement negotiations should focus on objective criteria and outcome predictions
- Participants are rational actors looking out for their own economic interests
- Mediators should persuade, cajole, argue, twist arms, etc. in the same way regardless of a person’s sex, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation, or other characteristics
- It is not the job of the mediator to call out prejudice or bias in the mediation
Experienced mediators and users of mediation will help us to understand these and other common assumptions and implicit biases about the mediation process and to explore bias-reducing strategies.
$60 for TMS members
$120 for Non-members
Register here: https://bit.ly/what-were-you-thinking-TMS