Mindful Mediation in a Multi-Cultural World
Presentation A – Brad Mustard, LL.B, LLM
Introduction to Cultural Awareness in Mediation
Learning Objectives:
- Acquiring a culturally educated lens
- Recognizing bias
- Understanding cultural patterns- i.e. low and high context communication, low power distance high power distance)
- Learning practical mediation interventions when working with the dynamics of culture
Presentation B – Dr. Mohamed Keshavjee, LLM, PhD (Lon)
Cross Cultural Challenges from a Family Mediation Perspective: from War-Torn Afghanistan to Post-Apartheid South Africa
Learning Objectives:
- Complement Brad Mustard’s presentation by highlighting some real-life experiences.
- Show how the present global model based on a Western, problem solving, satisfaction seeking, individualistic paradigm needs suitable adaptation to work in societies that are more relational.
- Summary of the approaches that were taken to modify and apply the model successfully over a ten-year period in some 25 countries of the world.
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