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Professionals in Conflict Resolution
A Warm Welcome from the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution!
We are an organization dedicated to imaginative, empowered conflict resolution.
Our outreach promotes and educates residents to a diverse set of non litigated solutions that can provide real benefits to the psyches of those in conflict, as well as to their wallets! Our programs for professionals, including a nationally-recognized certification process, ensure that parties to conflict will have deeply knowledgeable professionals to guide them to creative, value-driven and mutual agreements. We also serve as a guiding hand to new mediation practitioners as they navigate the field, and search for ways to build skills.
Announcing MCDR's Mentoring Program
Over the past year we have made significant strides in developing a mentoring program for mediators; I am both proud and humbled to serve as the first Chairman of the new Mentoring Program Committee. For more information about this Program follow these links: Mentoring Program and Mentor Candidate Chart.
Whether you are a practitioner, or seeking mediation services, we invite you to explore all the services of MCDR as we build a better world -- one mediation at a time.
Meet our 2024 President
The 2023 - 2024 MCDR Board of Directors
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Acting President, Treasurer
Barry M. Weissman, CDFA
Vice President
David Lewis, Esq.
Secretary
Janne E Weissman, SPHR
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Programs
Laverne Day
Certification Co-Chairs
Ramona Buck & Kate Cullen
Membership Co-Chairs
Janne E. Weisman, SPHR & Liz Salter
Mentoring
Stirling Phillips
Immediate Past President
Michael Sallustio
Programs and Membership proved to be most challenging. In his conversations with other similar non profits, Michael found, and our website host Wild Apricot confirmed, the pandemic is the primary reason for the unprecedented across the board decline in renewals and new memberships among similar non profits.
The ZOOM format now allows MCDR's programs to reach out to our colleagues wherever they are. C.E. Certificates are available on our website, free to members with only a modest charge to non-members to cover our costs. We look forward to offering these hybrid presentations utilizing individual presenters and panel formats. Thank you again Michael for the leadership, moving MCDR into the ZOOM generation.
For the in person aspect of our programs, as in the past we will be utilizing local venues spread across the central Maryland counties. Where permitted we will offer pot luck food and beverages. The first half hour will be set aside to network, visiting with old friends and colleagues; getting to meet new mediators as well.
Scheduled to launch shortly after April 1, 2024, our new MCDR Job Board will be located on the MCDR website. The Job Board, will be free of charge to all our colleagues through the year. We ask you to spread the word about the new MCDR Job Board!
Stirling has shared that final aspects of the Pilot MCDR Mentoring Program has been successfully completed! Please contact Stirling directly for information about becoming a Mentor or Mentee. More information can be found on this website. Please click on the Mentoring sub-tab under Training.
Very soon, we hope Ramona & Kate will be making an exciting announcement about.... Stand by; watch your e-mail.
Looks like we've got a very busy. exciting year ahead!
Barry Weissman,
Our Past President and Chairman of the Mentoring Committee, Stirling Phillips, Esq.
First, I want to congratulate the new Board members on their election to the MCDR Board of Directors. Thankfully, most Board members are continuing to serve in this new term so there is significant experience at the helm of MCDR. Consequently, I believe these are exciting times ahead for MCDR as the Board will be at full strength as it starts its new term. Second, I want to thank the previous Board and MCDR members for your support and participation over the past year and when I served as President. It was an honor and a privilege to serve as President. We continue the tradition of providing high quality ADR/mediation education and professional training through our Quarterly meetings.
We continue to provide our unique independent peer reviewed certification processes which is a time tested and proven tool for the market to identify high quality mediators. Over the past year we have made significant strides in developing a mentoring program for mediators; I am both proud and humbled to serve as the first Chairman of the new Mentoring Program Committee. For more information about this Program follow these links: Mentoring Program and Mentor Coaching Chart. I am also proud of our success, receiving a MACRO grant helping launch the Feedback Assessment program, offering individualized constructive feedback to mediators.
Please continue your support of MCDR.
Stirling Phillips, Esq.
MCDR Past President
Upcoming EVENTS
Please click here for instructions: How Non-Members can receive their participation certificate
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June 23, 2019 Sharon Pickett Award Presentation & 20th Anniversary Celebration The event was totally sold out! The weather was beautiful. The venue at the Sheraton Silver Spring was lovely. The floral arrangements, centerpieces selected by Edie Guidice were perfect; food selected by Monette Goodridge, our Vice President was extraordinary in quality, presentation and quantity. The stage had been set for a perfect event, flawless in execution.
Cam Crockett the recipient of the Bi-Annual Sharon Pickett Award receiving the award plaque from MCDR President, Stirling Phillips The Award and all that happened around it was so wonderful and I cannot thank you enough for all you did to make it so very special. It is rare in one's life when you get to gather so many people in one place that you have loved and worked with, and have the honor and joy of their appreciation. I was deeply moved and touched by so much of what was said it was surprising that I didn't just sit there and weep. I thought that every part of the day went perfectly. The food was delicious and the flowers were incredible. Please accept my most sincere appreciation for this incredible labor of love that your wonderful team achieved. Cam Crockett In private practice over 35 years, Cam has mediated over 5,000 cases. She is affiliated with the Maryland State Bar Association, Montgomery County Bar Association, Women's Bar Association of Maryland, Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and Montgomery County Divorce Roundtable. Cam is a founding member and still active in MCDR. She is both MCDR Certified and a Certification Assessor. She was one of the original trainers for the Family Mediation Association (FMA), founded by O.J. Googler. FMA initiated divorce mediation in the United States. Cam was one of the individuals working to develop a divorce education program & divorce mediation in the Montgomery County Circuit Court, now in operation for over twenty years. A few of the distinguished individuals invited to the podium to say a few words included Carl Schneider, Doug Brookman & Martin Kranitz (Shown Below), Rob Ketcham, Barb Williams, Harold Cohen, and the list goes on. Clearly this was a very special time and touching memories were made.
During the 20th Anniversary Celebration which followed, Martin Kranitz and others shared the history of MCDR. They shared stories going back to the 1980s about the precursors of today’s MCDR. Stirling remembered two individuals critical to the development of MCDR not with us today: Roger Wolf and Sarah Grebe. A truly a memorable event has been created December 7, 2018: MCDR was one of many exhibitors at the bi-annual Maryland Mediators Convention sponsored by the Maryland Judiciary, MACRO/MPME. A Major "Thank You" Goes Out.... To all our colleagues who stopped by speaking with us about Trainings, Certification, our Mentor/Mentee Initiative, upcoming Programs, Master Classes, and next summer's Sharon Pickett Award/20th Anniversary celebration! To all those mediators signing up as new members of MCDR. And to those renewing their memberships. To Janne, MCDR's Membership Chairperson & Barry, Treasurer for their work at the exhibit table. To all MCDR past presidents, Stirling Phillips our current president, and past & present board members who stopped by to help. We are especially pleased that so many MCDR members were in attendance. To Officense and Minnesota Lawyers Mutual (MLM) for exhibiting at the convention and for their supporting MCDR by offering benefits to our membership. To all those individuals at MACRO for their exhaustive work over the past year creating and executing such a sophisticated, wonderful and exciting event. You made us all proud. Thank you. MCDR is proud to have sponsored via the Sarah Grebe Fund three fully registered participants to the convention: The Sarah Grebe Fund provides needs-based scholarships to those who might want to enroll or participate in ADR or mediation classes. Sarah Grebe Fund can also be used for specific or special ADR mediation projects. Each grant request made to the Sara Grebe Fund is reviewed and approved by a vote of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. Contributions can be made using the "How to Make a Donation or Leave a Legacy" tab shown above or by sending your check to our Bethesda office. |
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