The Dispute Resolution Center

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The Dispute Resolution Center at Woodbury College offers mediation and facilitation services to help people resolve disputes of all kinds, including:

  • Filing for divorce or changing an existing divorce agreement
  • Having a difficult time working out concerns with your teenage child
  • Trying to resolve a thorny business problem
  • Having a problem with your co-worker, teacher, tenant, landlord or neighbor
  • Working out agreements

Our Services

MEDIATION

Even if you know you will go to court, you can use mediation to work out some of your issues first, saving time, money and energy. And, mediation can help you reach an agreement that is more satisfying than a court-ordered settlement.

MEETING FACILITATION

If your group needs help to work through a difficult issue, we can provide skilled facilitators to assist you. Our facilitators also help organizations develop decision-making processes that the group may use in future problem-solving sessions.

PROGRAM CONSULTATION

If you would like to create dispute resolution programming in your organization, agency, educational institution or community, we can help. We also offer consultation to existing dispute resolution programs.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION TRAINING & WORKSHOPS

If you or your organization would like to learn more about alternative dispute resolution, we offer introductory and advanced training in mediation skills. We also provide workshops in conflict resolution skills, meeting facilitation, consensus building, collaborative problem solving, negotiation skills, and advanced mediation topics.


Why Our Approach Works

HANDS-ON LEARNING

Our approach to training recognizes the truth of the statement, "People learn 20 percent of what they hear, 40 percent of what they see, and 80 percent of what they do."

That statement - backed up by years of research about adult learning - suggests that people learn and retain new skills and information best when training is active and hands-on. Our workshops rely on structured experiences through which participants actually demonstrate they can do what they came to learn.


LEARNING TO WORK TOGETHER

When organizations send staff to outside training, learners are expected to bring back the knowledge they gained. But since the goal of most training is a change in the way people operate within their own work settings, nothing is more effective than co-workers learning together.