Expanding Your Practice: Regulatory Negotiation: (Offered to Practicing Mediators Only)

Regulatory Negotiations is a process in which those who will be affected by a regulation sit down with a government agency to write a proposed rule or regulation by consensus. Experience has shown that by bringing potential or even actual antagonists into participation in a public process, they become invested in helping the agency solve its problem. The result is usually better regulation and because those who will be regulated have taken part in the process, the likelihood of subsequent challenges are greatly reduced.

The Sessions:

This three-day workshop is for practitioners who want specific insight into how to expand their practice to include resolving multi party and public policy issues involving federal, state or local government, and techniques for facilitating these processes. This workshop examines how multi-party public policy disputes are convened and facilitated through Regulatory-Negotiations and similar approaches. This process has been used many times since the mid 1980's to resolve a variety of public policy issues and is used regularly in resolving many kinds of natural resource, environmental, regulatory and complex multi party cases. The workshop includes case studies and interactive exercises in all phases of convening and facilitating multi party public policy issues. Substantial time will be spent on how to expand and market your practice to provide these services.

Audience:

This course is offered to practicing mediators only. If you are interested in expanding your practice to Federal, State and local governments this course will teach you the skills and provide you with suggestions on how to market those skills. This course is taught only once per year and is limited to 20 participants.