Intercultural Advocacy and ADR

This intensive 3-day workshop for lawyers, neutrals and judges, equally combine cultural and neuropsychological knowledge and practical exercises about ADR and negotiation to help participants prepare and manage more efficiently their cross-border and cross-cultural cases. It is facilitated by three experiences and complementary international mediators and negotiation experts : François Bogacz, Jeremy Lack and Juanita Wijnands.

• Enable more effective diagnosis (including self-diagnosis) and management of intercultural situations;
• Developping “presencing”, the competency to have poise and ease in challenging situations in order to know what and how to communicate in the context of a given situation;
• Learn how to use new tools and techniques to make explicit, cognitive interventions relating to how
  individuals connect within and across groups, how they can interact more effectively (especially across groups) and how they can do so with greater ease, mastery and enjoyment (starting with oneself);
• Better handle stressful situations and get better results and mutually acceptable outcomes by applying
  emotional, social and cognitive drivers in an explicit way;
• Be culturally congruent at a conscious level;
• Better able to address affective processes;
• Work more effectively and harmoniously with colleagues, clients and third parties across all cultures
  and in all contexts (using the principles of “Connect”, “Perform” and “Enjoy”)