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The Maine Association of Mediators
is pleased to offer
A Mediator Peer Support Group
Thursday, October 9th
4:00-5:00pm
Free to MAM Members
These drop-in sessions are designed to create an on-line community of support, self-care, and mutual benefit with varied topics and forums including case presentation, discussion and resource sharing.
As a group members, your input is invaluable. Please plan to join us and share your ideas, questions, resources, and thoughts as we collaborate to make this support group beneficial to all.
Co-Hosts:
Maureen Dillane
Karen Groat
If you experience any difficulty logging into Zoom
Please Contact Karen (207) 632-1111
karen.groat@maine.edu
MAM Invites You to a Free Community Panel Presentation
Conflict to Connection: Understanding Adversarial
and Relational Dynamics in Mediation
Please join us for our annual community event in honor of Conflict Resolution Day! We are excited to host a panel conversation: Conflict to Connection – Understanding Adversarial and Relational Dynamics in Mediation. This session explores how parties in mediation are often caught in both adversarial and relational roles - and what that means for us as ADR practitioners. Panelists Diane Kenty, Esq., Leah Boyd, CNVC, and Andy Kull, Esq., with facilitator Rebekah Smith, Esq., will share insights from their own work and discuss how we can better support parties navigating this dynamic. There will be time for Q&A and reflection.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
12:00 - 1:15 pm
Zoom will open at 11:45 for networking and socializing. Zoom Link will follow for Registered Participants.
External Professional Development Opportunity
Kids First Conference
Forwarded by MAM to make members aware of events outside of MAM that may be of interest. Please contact Kids First for additional information.
ATTENTION ALL PROFESSIONALS WHO WORK WITH FAMILIES GOING THROUGH DIVORCE OR SEPARATION:
Please join us on October 20th for the KFI Conference 2025: Parallel Parenting!
Dear Colleagues,
As a professional working with children and families, you regularly encounter the complex dynamics inherent in high-conflict separations and divorces. You note behavioral changes in children, navigate challenging parent interactions, and work to support families when traditional co-parenting approaches prove insufficient.
The Kids First Institute for Advanced Professional Learning (KFI) invites you to a full-day, collaborative, and hands-on learning experience to generate new approaches for families navigating separation and conflict.
KFI has spent the last year exploring whether parallel parenting models could assist these families where traditional cooperative parenting models have proven inadequate, while still maintaining a pathway to greater co-parenting in the future. We invite you to continue this exploration with us to find out how parallel parenting can mitigate the exposure to conflict for children trapped in high-conflict family systems.
CLE and CEU credits are available.
What: KFI Conference 2025: Parallel Parenting
When: October 20, 2025, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: Italian Heritage Center, Portland, ME
Presenters to include:
Esteemed Panelists: Hon. Susan Driscoll, Hon. Jeffrey Wilson, Hon. Andrea Najarian, and Hon. Lindsay Cadwallader
Ezekiel Kimball, PhD, Dean of the College of Education and Human Development, UMO
Nate Bailey, OurFamilyWizard Professional Liaison
REGISTER NOW!
Registration deadline: October 16.
Please note: In order to create an optimal learning environment, space is limited
Professional Learning Outcomes
✓ Practical application through case studies based on real family dynamics.
✓ Tangible interventions for immediate implementation in your practice/field. ✓ Multidisciplinary perspectives from experts and attendees alike. ✓ Structured approaches that reduce systemic stress across domains ✓ CLE and CEU credits for professional licensure requirements
All professionals who work with children and families navigating high-conflict separations and divorces are encouraged to attend. Here are some discipline-specific applications:
· Attorneys, Guardians ad Litem, and Mediators: Understand how parallel parenting creates structure while preserving boundaries–keeping children out of the middle while reducing opportunities for coparenting conflict. Take with you tangible parallel parenting language that you can utilize in motions and order to support your clients, and by extension, their children.
· Medical Professionals: Learn to identify family stressors during routine visits and confidently suggest communication strategies without overstepping expertise. Encourage clearer court and coparenting orders that will take stress off administrative staff caught between coparents.
· Mental Health Professionals: Discover strategies to add to your current approaches to helping families in therapy by suggesting parallel parenting principles focused on reducing conflict and mitigating ACES for children.
· Educators: Learn how to support children in the midst of high-conflict coparenting dynamics by bridging communication between parents and school staff and encouraging structure at home that supports your classroom work and leads to greater student success.
Conference Details:
$150 per person (includes continental breakfast, lunch, snacks, and materials)
CLE and CEU credits available for all attendees! Earn required continuing education credits while advancing your practice. This conference presents validated approaches that support both family functioning and professional efficacy.
Questions? Contact Jennifer Pallozzi at jpallozzi@kidsfirstcenter.org
Kids First Center for Co-Parenting Education and Family Resilience Innovative Plans. Stronger Families. Practical Tools for Parallel Parenting Success.
40-Hour Basic Mediation Training
Forwarded by MAM to make members aware of events outside of MAM that may be of interest. Please contact MAMP for additional information.
Who: 16 seats available for land & sea farmers and agricultural workers, agricultural service providers, and members of the general public What: MAMP 40-hour Basic Mediation Training When: October 22, 23, 24 29, & 30 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (one hour for lunch)
Where: In-Person @ the UMaine Extension Penobscot County Office, 307 Maine Avenue, Bangor, Maine
Registration Deadline: October 3, 2025 @ 11:59 PM
Registration & More Information on the Maine Agricultural Mediation Program (MAMP) Website: https://extension.umaine.edu/agriculture/agricultural-mediation/training/
Co-Instructors: Karen Groat, KG Mediations and Libra Professor at UMA & Leah Boyd, Clarity Services, LLC
Description: MAMP invites land and sea farms, agricultural workers, agricultural service providers, and members of the general public interested in becoming mediators, looking to enhance conflict resolution/management skills or learn how to assist others in resolving their conflict-related issues to apply for our upcoming training. We're offering a 5-day hands-on, highly interactive practical training.
Cost: Members of the General Public: Training cost is $1,250 per trainee.
MAM Annual Conference and Meeting
Healing to Wellness in Conflict Resolution:
Tribal Court Wisdom and Self-Care Tools for Mediators
Friday, November 7, 2025
8:45 am - 2:45 pm
Join us for a day that blends tribal wisdom with professional renewal. In the morning, we’ll learn from the Penobscot Nation’s Healing to Wellness Court, a restorative and community-based approach to justice, presented by Hon. Eric Mehnert and Hon. Rhonda Decontie. In the afternoon, Gretchen Pianka, MD, will guide us in exploring simple and powerful practices to reduce burnout and bring greater presence to our own conflict resolution work.
Don't miss this opportunity for professional development and connecting with colleagues in the field of alternative dispute resolution.
More Details Will Follow
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