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Wednesday, November 6th
Registration (Mann Foyer) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Thursday, November 7th
Exhibitor Setup (Mann Foyer) 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Registration (Mann Foyer) 7:00 am - on-going
Continental Breakfast (Mann Foyer) 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Keynote/General Session (Mann) 8:30 am - 9:45 am
Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Family Conflict Resolution
Speaker: Ken Cloke
Break (Mann Foyer) 9:45 am - 10:00 am
Breakout Sessions 10:00 am - 11:40 am
Breakout 1 — A (Part 1)
The Logic of Emotions in Divorce: How to Mediate Anger, Fear, Grief and Shame
Speaker: Ken Cloke
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann
Breakout 1 — B (Part 1)
Using Mediation to Help Couples Stay Married
Speaker: Ken Neumann and John Fiske
Topic: Mediation
Location: Smoot
Breakout 1 — C (Standalone)
Beginning Forensics for CDFA Holders
Speaker: Nancy Hetrick
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 1 — D (Standalone)
Speaker: Kate Fanger
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mahoney
Breakout 1 — E (Standalone)
Working Together Better-Stronger Team Dynamics
Speaker: Jeffrey Fink, Linda Cohan
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Summer 2
Lunch (Mann Foyer) 11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Working Lunch 11:50 am - 12:40 pm
Home Equity, Silver Divorce and Financial Planning
Speaker: Bonny Gilbert
Breakout Sessions 12:50 pm - 2:30 pm
Breakout 1 — A (Part 2)
The Logic of Emotions in Divorce: How to Mediate Anger, Fear, Grief and Shame
Speaker: Ken Cloke
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann
Breakout 1 — B (Part 2)
Using Mediation to Help Couples Stay Married
Speaker: Ken Neumann and John Fiske
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Smoot
Breakout 2 — C (Standalone)
Adjudicative Creep: The Practitioner's Field Guide to "Invasive Species" in ADR Processes
Speaker: Alex Glassman and Steve Erickson
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 2
Breakout 2 — D (Standalone)
Creative College Planning Resolutions
Speaker: Beth Aarons, Justin Kelsley and Rick Fingerman
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 2 — E (Standalone)
Intimate Partner Violence and Mediation: Can Unequal Parties Have Equal Footing?
Speaker: Stephanie E. Goldenhersh, Esq.
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mahoney
PM Break #1 (Mann Foyer) 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Breakout Sessions 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
Breakout 3 — A (Standalone)
Women in Mediation and Financial Planning
Speaker: Amanda Singer, Vicki Shemin, Donna Petrucelli, Kristyn Carmichael, Cheryl Glazer and Marilyn Mcknight
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann
Breakout 3 — B (Standalone)
Speaker: Paul Fair and Robert Bordett
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 3 — C (Standalone)
Managing Student Loans in Divorce
Speaker: Adam Minsky
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 2
Breakout 3 — D (Standalone)
Financial Challenges in Mediating a Grey Divorce
Speaker: Renee Senes
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Mahoney
Breakout 2 — E (Standalone)
Speaker: Forrest "Woody" Mosten
Topic: Mediation
Location: Smoot
PM Break #2 (Mann Foyer) 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Breakout Sessions 4:50 pm - 6:30 pm
Breakout 4 — A (Standalone)
Mediating Divorces Involving Children with Autism
Speaker: Lawrence Jones and Ken Neumann
Topic: Mediation
Location: Smoot
Breakout 4 — B (Standalone)
Ethical Dilemmas when Mediators, Lawyers & Financial Planners Share Clients
Speaker: Chris Chen Moderating, Panel: Marguerita Cheng, Jeffrey Fink and Shawn Weber
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Mahoney
Breakout 4 — C (Standalone)
Innovative & Strategic Use of Neutrals in Mediation
Speaker: Karen Levitt, Karen Ela Kenny, Susan Miller
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Mann
Breakout 4 — D (Standalone)
Mediation on the Shoulders of the Bible and Talmud
Speaker: Carl Viniar
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 2
Breakout 4 — E (Standalone)
Modernizing the Family Practice
Speaker: Barbara Manousso
Topic: Practice Management
Location: Summer 1
Friday, November 8th
Continental Breakfast (Mann Foyer) 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast Session 7:35 am - 8:25 am
Long-term Care Consequences with Divorce Are Real: What is Your Plan?
Speaker: Rona Loshak, MBA, CLTC and Natalie Karp, MBA, CLTC
Keynote/General Session (Mann) 8:30 am - 9:45 am
What Makes People Tick: A Divorce Professional’s Guide to Our Multiple Parts
Speaker: David Hoffman
AM Break (Mann Foyer) 9:45 am - 10:00 am
Breakout Sessions 10:00 am - 11:40 am
Breakout 5 — A (Part 1)
Child Support Account - The Core of the Elegant Solution
Speaker: Marilyn McKnight and Stephen Erickson
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Smoot
Breakout 5 — B (Part 1)
Generational to Generation: Critical Conversations about Family Mediation
Speaker: Moderators; Michael Aurit & Jim Melamed; Panel: Amanda Singer, Justin Kesley, Dina Haddad, Chip Rose, Jocelyn Wurzburg and Don Saposnek
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann
Breakout 5 — C (Standalone)
Therapeutic Apologies for Difficult Family Situations
Speaker: Robin M. Deutsch, Ph.D., ABPP
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mahoney
Breakout 5 — D (Standalone)
Meeting the (Big) Challenges of "Blended Families"
Speaker: Patricia Papernow
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 5 — E (Standalone)
Social Security and Retirement Planning: A Hit or Myth Proposition
Speaker: Kurt Czarnowski
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 2
APFM/MCFM Lunch and Awards (Mann)11:45 am - 12:45 pm
ADFP Lunch Meeting (Summer 1)11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Breakout Sessions 12:50 pm - 2:30 pm
Breakout 5 — A (Part 2)
Child Support Account - The Core of the Elegant Solution
Speaker: Marilyn McKnight and Steve Erickson
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Smoot
Breakout 5 — B (Part 2)
Generational to Generation: Critical Conversations about Family Mediation
Speaker: Moderators; Michael Aurit & Jim Melamed; Panel: Amanda Singer, Justin Kesley, Dina Haddad, Chip Rose, Jocelyn Wurzburg and Don Saposnek
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann
Breakout 6 — C (Standalone)
Divorce and Special Needs: Defining the Best Interests of the Child
Speaker: Cynthia Haddad
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mahoney
Breakout 6 — D (Standalone)
Navigating Divorce Ambivalence with Integrity
Speaker: Rachel Zamore
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 6 — E (Standalone)
Speaker: Lili Vasileff
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 2
PM Break #1 (Mann Foyer) 2:30 pm - 2:40 pm
Breakout Sessions 2:40 pm - 4:20 pm
Breakout 7 — A (Standalone)
Speaker: Don Saposnek
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann
Breakout 7 — B (Standalone)
Show Me the Money: Creating Liquidity from Business Assets
Speaker: Ivy Menchel and Michael Garibaldi
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 7 — C (Standalone)
Following Up with the Client Post Divorce
Speaker: Sandy Voit
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 2
Breakout 7 — D (Standalone)
Innovating from Elder Mediation's Hybrid Approach
Speaker: Crystal Thorpe
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mahoney
Breakout 7 — E (Standalone)
From QDRO to COAP and RBCO: Decoding the World of Federal Pensions
Speaker: Steve Abel
Topic: Mediation
Location: Smoot
PM Break #2 (Mann Foyer) 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Breakout Sessions 4:30 pm - 6:10 pm
Breakout 8 — A (Standalone)
Unraveling the Mysteries of Valuation
Speaker: Michael Garibaldi
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 8 — B (Standalone)
How to Earn a Living as a Family Mediator
Speaker: Virginia Colin, Michael Aurit, Barry Davis, Justin Kelsey, Crystal Thorpe and Carl Viniar
Topic: Marketing
Location: Smoot
Breakout 8 — C (Standalone)
The Story Behind the Story, or Human First
Speaker: Richard Barbieri
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 2
Breakout 8 — D (Standalone)
Speaker: Don Saposnek and Chip Rose
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann
Breakout 8 — E (Standalone)
Estate Planning Issues for Mediators
Speaker: Melinda Milberg
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Mahoney
Saturday, November 9th
Continental Breakfast (Mann Foyer) 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast Session 8:10 am - 9:00 am
Speaker: Judy Herbst and Marguerita Cheng, CFP, RICP
Breakout Sessions 9:00 am - 10:40 am
Breakout 9 — A (Part 1)
Radical Candor and Other Communication Strategies
Speaker: Kathryn Lazar and Allison Bell
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann 1 &2
Breakout 9 — B (Part 1)
Mediating Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
Speaker: Laurie Israel
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Smoot
Breakout 9 — C (Standalone)
Mediation and Financial Planning
Speaker: John Fiske, Karen Cohen, Susan Miller & Renee Senes
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Mahoney
Breakout 9 — D (Standalone)
Understanding the Small Business
Speaker: David Goodman
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 9 — E (Standalone)
Speaker: Dorcy Pruter of Conscious Co-Parenting Institute
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 2
AM Break (Mann Foyer) 10:40 am - 10:50 am
Breakout Sessions 10:50 am - 12:30 pm
Breakout 9 — A (Part 2)
Radical Candor and Other Communication Strategies
Speaker: Kathryn Lazar and Allison Bell
Topic: Mediation
Location: Mann 1 & 2
Breakout 9 — B (Part 2)
Mediating Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
Speaker: Laurie Israel
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Smoot
Breakout 10 — C (Standalone)
Mandatory Mediation is Not an Oxymoron
Speaker: Oran Kaufman, Kristina Bordieri, Judge David Sacks and Betsy Williams
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 1
Breakout 10 — D (Standalone)
Defending Questionable Cultural Practices in Court is Unethical
Speaker: Nadia Shahram
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 2
PM Break #1 (Checkout of Hotel if needed) (Mann Foyer)12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
Breakout Sessions 12:50 pm - 2:30 pm
Breakout 11 — A (Boxed Lunch) (Standalone)
Experts and Mediation: How to Bring Them in Without Popping the Safe Space Bubble
Speaker: Jennifer Hawthorne, Beth Aarons, Halee Burg, Justin Kelsey and Crystal Thorpe
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Mann 1 & 2
Breakout 11 — B (Boxed Lunch) (Standalone)
Creating a National Examination for Competency-based Credentialing of Divorce and Family Mediators
Speaker: Steven Menack, Marilyn McKnight and Stephen Erickson from the PMBS Board
Topic: Mediation
Location: Summer 2
Breakout 11 — C (Boxed Lunch) (Standalone)
Sex,Drugs & Rock'N Roll & What Happened to the Money
Speaker: Vicki Shemin, Susan Miller, Alexander D. Jones, Esq. and Chris Marquet
Topic: Financial & Mediation
Location: Smoot
Breakout 11 — D (Boxed Lunch) (Standalone)
Creative Options Related Tax Law
Speaker: Debra Smith, David Goodman & Cynthia Runge
Topic: Financial
Location: Summer 1
PM Break #2 (Mann Foyer)2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Keynote/General Session 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker: John Fiske & (Ken Neumann Moderating)
Topic: Fish Bowl Panel
Location: Mann 1 & 2
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