ADRA

ADRA CPD Event - Professor Gabriel Appleby and Joanne Selfe
2023-07-25 15:30 - 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | https://adra.net.au/event/adra-cpd-event-5/
ADRA will be hosting an event with guest speakers Professor Gabrielle Appleby and Joanne Selfe. Attendance to this event allows you to earn 1 CPD point. The topic for this event is “The Voice Referendum: Where are we and what’s ahead?”

Professor Gabrielle Appleby is a Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice of UNSW Sydney. She researches and teaches in public law, with her areas of expertise including the role, powers and accountability of the Executive; parliamentary law and practice; the role of government lawyers; the integrity of the judicial branch and First Nations constitutional recognition. She was a pro bono constitutional adviser to the Indigenous Steering Committee of the Referendum Council and the Regional Dialogues and First Nations Constitutional Convention that delivered the Uluru Statement from the Heart. She is the Director of The Judiciary Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and the constitutional consultant to the Clerk of the Australian House of Representatives.

2023 - ADRA Monthly Meeting
2023-06-27 18:15 - 19:15, 2023-05-23 18:15 - 19:15, 2023-04-24 18:15 - 19:15, 2023-03-28 18:15 - 19:15, 2023-02-28 17:15 - 19:15

ADRA CPD Event - Allan Parker
2023-06-27 16:30 - 20:00 | https://adra.net.au/event/adra-cpd-event-4/
ADRA will be hosting an event with Allan Parker as guest speaker. Attendance to this event allows you to earn 1 CPD point. The topic of this event is “Managing brain chemistry through mediation processes and skills”

Allan Parker OAM is a Micro Behavioural Scientist and Negotiator who usually introduces himself as an eccentric Micro-Behavioural Neuroscientist, International Negotiator, and Educator. He works as a negotiator/facilitator of large-scale multi-party negotiations and disputes. Within government and private organisations, he trains in negotiation, dispute prevention and healthy considered conversations. Allan has presented, facilitated, and moderated in over 60 different countries around the world and has had participants from 192 countries in his audience at one time at the United Nations-World Investment Forum.

ADRA CPD Event - Geoff Charlton
2023-05-23 16:30 - 17:15
ADRA will be hosting an event with Geoff Charlton as guest speaker. Attendance to this event allows you to earn 1 CPD point. The topic for this presentation will be “What I have learned in 30 + years of mediating”

The presentation will cover the following talking points:

After initial training, grab every opportunity that arises

Use your negotiation training

Hold a preliminary Conference

Do not rush to conclusions based on briefed material

Make parties comfortable from the outset

Use a structure initially

Be flexible with process

Identify Ideas and Suggestions

Summarise often

Allow parties / lawyers to identify terms of agreement

Familiarise with various mediation formats

Be aware of differing dynamics with various mediation subjects.

Semi-retire with an ADR body that does all the organising.

Geoff Charlton spent 30 plus years working as an experienced commercial lawyer. After trained in mediation in 1992, Geoff adapted his negotiation skills to become a successful mediation specialist now with over 30 years plus ADR experience and over 2000 matters conducted.. He is a Co-Author of the leading mediation skills textbook, The Mediator’s Handbook (3rd Edition). Geoff is now semi retired conducting 1 or 2 Legal Aid parenting and property mediations a week.

ADRA CPD Event - Dr Amanda White
2023-04-24 16:00 - 20:00 | The Law Society of NSW, 170 Phillip St, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
ADRA will be hosting an event with Dr Amanda White, President, ANZAPPL (New South Wales) as guest speaker. Attendance to this event allows you to earn 1 CPD point. The topic for this event is “Cognition, mental disorders and capacity in the legal context”

This presentation aims to explore the role of cognition and mental disorders when examining questions of legal capacity. Discussion will focus on how these factors may be relevant to various aspects of the law and related processes including instructing lawyers in proceedings, executing decisions and an individual’s capacity to partake in mediation.Dr White will explain some of the neurological and psychological factors including autism spectrum disorder and personality disorder which may influence an individual’s cognition and capacity and provide information and basic strategies as to how to work with these presentations within this context.

Dr White is an endorsed Forensic Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist with extensive training and experience in the preparation of forensic psychological and neuropsychological reports. She is skilled in the comprehensive assessment of cognitive, behavioural and psychological impairments associated with complex histories, multiple comorbidities and a range of conditions, including acquired brain injury, neurodegenerative disorders, psychological and psychiatric illness, neurological conditions, intellectual disability, substance use disorders and forensic matters including risk assessment. She has extensive experience conducting assessments and reports surrounding decision making and capacity evaluations. She has appeared as an expert witness in the NSW courts and various tribunals.

Note that the preferred attendance for this event is via Zoom (link will be on your ticket). The Law Society has seating for only 8 attendees

ADRA CPD Event - Ruwan Wathukarage
2023-03-28 16:00 - 17:00
ADRA will be hosting an event with Ruwan Wathukarage as the guest speaker talking on the subject of “How to mine the Gold on which ADRA is sitting”. Attendance to this event allows you to earn 1 CPD point. Agenda to be announced closer to the day.

ADRA XMAS Party - 2022
2022-11-28 17:30 - 22:00 | Palace Chinese Restaurant Sydney, Shop 38, Level 1, Piccadilly Tower, 133-145 Castlereagh St, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
Please join us for ADRA’s 2022 XMAS party.Marilyn Waugh will be our guest speaker talking on the topic Mediation as a profession.Event tickets and venue details are included below. Please complete your ticket purchase via our secure payment portal to ensure your spot.

2022 - ADRA Monthly Meeting
2022-10-25 17:00 - 19:00
Planning session for 2023 and last formal meeting for 2022

MPN Sessions
2022-10-24 17:00 - 19:00 | The Law Society of NSW, 170 Phillip St, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
The Importance of REFLECTIVE Practice on your mediation sessions

Co-ordinated by Josephine Reyes and Dennis Nolan

Four MPNs are organised for the year and are held at the Law Society on the 4th Monday night of the month from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. A zoom meeting is also concurrently held for those who cannot attend in person. Monday nights score two CPD points . As ADRA is a voluntary organisation we ask for a nominal contribution of $10.00 from members and $15.00 from visitors who are most welcome, to help defray the costs. Please click here for more information on our events schedule for the year.

MPN sessions give accredited mediators an opportunity to further their skills with two advanced mediators as convenors. Generally there is vigorous discussion and exchange of ideas at the meetings.ADRA members can organise a group to practise their mediation skills. The sessions were specifically designed for those mediators who become accredited but who do not get sufficient work to remain accredited and are intended to refresh their skills

2022 - ADRA Monthly Meeting
2022-09-27 17:00 - 19:00
Election of Office Bearers after August AGM

2022 ADRA AGM dinner and meeting
2022-08-23 17:00 - 19:30 | Palace Chinese Restaurant Sydney, Shop 38, Level 1, Piccadilly Tower, 133-145 Castlereagh St, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
Please join us for our AGM meeting and dinner at the Palace Chinese Restaurant.
The meeting will commence at 5.00pm with guest speaker Allan Parker commencing at 6.00pm.
We have a limited number of spots available (30 in total) so please book ASAP to ensure a position.
For more information please call Katherine Johnson on 0421 321 276

Dinner Menu
Vegetable spring
Steamed prawn dumpling
Steamed fish with ginger & shallots
Prawn with vegetable
Beef in black beans sauce
Crispy skin chicken
Mushrooms with Bok Choy
Jasmine rice
Fruit
Chinese tea

Mediator Practice Network (MPN) Session - Mediation in the Disability Sector
2022-08-22 17:00 - 19:00 | via Zoom
Presented by: ADRA Board Member and NMAS Accredited Mediator Mark Rogers, join ADRA for a discussion surrounding best practice when mediation encompasses clients with disabilities and special needs.

Participate in the production of a document to begin facilitation of a set of guidelines that can be used for mediation/alternative dispute resolution incorporating dignity and respect to achieve positive outcomes for clients in this area.

Facilitated by: ADRA Board Member and NMAS Accredited Mediator Sam Bektas.

CPD note: Participation in MPN Events held by ADRA may be counted towards compulsory professional development (CPD) in line with Mediator Standards Board Guidelines.

MPN Sessions
2022-06-27 17:00 - 19:00
Cheryl Bryan

MPN Sessions
2022-04-25 17:00 - 19:00
ANZAC Day Break

What place the Rule of Law in COVID times?
2022-01-18 08:00 - 17:00
John Dowd – What place the Rule of Law in COVID times?

Last Business Meeting of the Year and Preparation for November Xmas Party
2021-10-26 19:00 - 2021-10-27 04:00

Normal Video Conference Meeting
2021-09-28 18:00 - 2021-09-29 03:00

National Mediation Conference in Alice Springs
2021-09-01 10:00 - 2021-09-05 09:59
https://adrresearch.net/2020/03/05/put-that-in-your-diary-national-mediation-conference-2021/,
https://www.nationalmediationconference.com/,
https://www.mediationinstitute.edu.au/nmc-2021-call-for-abstracts/

Preparation for National Mediation Conference in Alice Springs
2021-08-24 18:00 - 2021-08-25 03:00
Preparation for National Mediation Conference in Alice Springs ADRA’s – involvement

Full Day Joint PAVE and ADRA conference
2021-07-20 18:00 - 2021-07-21 03:00 | NSW Parliment House, NSW, 2000, Australia
NSW Parliament House:
Peace is not the absence of Conflict on the occasion of the Combined ADRA 35th Anniversary and PAVE’s 25th Anniversary.

Preparation for Joint Celebration on 20 July
2021-06-27 18:00 - 2021-06-28 03:00
Preparation for Joint celebration on 20 July and normal video conference

Rejuvenated Council for Australian Dispute Resolution Conference
2021-05-14 18:00 - 2021-05-15 03:00
Rejuvenated Council for Australian Dispute Resolution (CADR) conference
Mary Walker to chair the meeting
