IAM Members Gather in Grinnell for Summer Chautauqua
A Friday in July brought members together for both association business and to share ideas about mediator ethics and mediation styles. Business included planning for IAM hosting the 2011 Heartland Mediator's Conference. Mediators from Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri will join with Iowa Colleagues in the bi-annual get together. Other business included an ongoing review of the IAM Mediator Certification Progam as well as finding new ways to collaborate with all Iowa mediation services and associations for the benefit of the profession.
Association President, Terry Parsons, mediator and attorney with Olsen & Parsons Law Firm, Cedar Falls (far left) moderates panel on mediation ethics. Panel includes, from left to right; Matt Brandes, attorney and mediator with Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman, Cedar Rapids; Peg O'Rourke, mediator and therapist with The O'Rourke Group, Burlington: Scarlett Lunning Huey, mediator, counselor and trainer with Iowa Mediation Services, Des Moines; Mike Thompson, mediator, trainer and Director of Iowa Mediation Services, Des Moines.
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Christine Crilley, attorney and mediator, Crilley Mediation Center, Hiawatha acts as mediator in a role play dispute between (left) Steve Sovern, mediator and trainer, Sovern Mediation, Cedar Rapids and (right) Kimberly Stamatelos, attorney and mediator, Stamatelos & Associates, West Des Moines.
Role players are at odds over which model of mediation practice should be employed in three different dispute scenarios.
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"Mediation is not just a different road to get to the same place."
"It is a different road to get to a very different place."
Lenard Marlow
