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ADVANCED MEDIATION SEMINAR
My hands-on experience to guide your mediations with full confidence
The one-day seminar (8h)
THE PARADOXES BETWEEN MEDIATION THEORY AND THE OPPOSING FORCES IN THE FIELD: Knowing how to identify them to conduct an effective mediation
- the importance of information exchange and the parties’ reluctance to engage in it
- the need for collaborative negotiation despite the parties’ strong desire to negotiate competitively
- how to deal with the omnipresence of legal concepts when mediation is meant to be an alternative to the judicial process
- how to give parties back their power in their conflict when they do everything they can to hand us the responsibility of resolving the matter
Dates : February 11th 2026 At the Saint-Lambert office
Tarif : $550 plus taxes
The one-and-a-half-day seminar (14h)
This course addresses certain challenges specific to mediation by describing real-life situations and analyzing the various interventions carried out in each case. It covers difficulties related to:
- confidentiality
- impartiality.
- the mediator’s opinion
- the importance and skill of the first caucus to foster collaboration
- how to provide feedback on both the parties’ needs and the merits of the dispute
- how to deal with bad faith
- how to manage our own emotions regarding the people involved, the case, our influence, and the outcome
The course has the advantage of exploring the above topics through real and concrete situations, analyzing the relevance of the interventions made, and discussing any other interventions that might have been appropriate.
This course includes simulations of the first caucus within a given situation.
Instructor
This seminar is conducted by Me Dominique F. Bourcheix. Ad.E. with over 40 years of experience, Me Bourcheix practiced in banking, civil, commercial, insurance and professionnal liability for fifteen years. She is an accredited mediator since 1994 and since 1999, she has made a specialty and an exclusive practice of mediation and it's arbritation. She has conducted over 2000 mediations in such diverse fields as construction, insurance, professional liability, disability insurance, contracts, banking, commercial, successions, family, and at the Régie de l’Énergie. She frequently acted as an arbitrator in cases of civil and commercial matters, and was an arbitration specialist for the province of Québec for over 10 years, with the Automotive Vehicles Arbitration Program of Canada (CAMVAP). As a mediator, she is accredited by the Québec Bar in both Civil, Commercial, Labour and Family law; she is a Chartered Mediator with the ADR Institute of Canada; a member of IMAQ; a member of the list of mediators of the France-Québec Mediation Service and of several other organisations. (Click here for a short cv and for additional details.)
Me Bourcheix has been teaching mediation and negotiation to working professionnals since 1995. She has helped train internal mediators for the CRTC, the RCMP, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, as well as for the Québec Commission on Access to Information. She has conducted many perfection seminars for conciliators working within many of Québec’s administrative tribunals, for the Centre de Médiation et d’Arbitrage de Paris, as well as for Aix Médiation. She has also taught seminars on principled negotiation for many governmental institutions and private organizations, as well as for the Québec Bar’s Continuing Education Program.
Her great practical experience of mediation, not only in civil and commercial matters, but also in tense human conflict, combined with her credentials as a dynamic and passionate instructor, are what make this seminar so exclusive and powerful.
Cancellation and Reimbursement
Any registration cancellation must be submitted by writing. There is no reimbursement for a cancellation made within 7 working days or less before the seminar. For any cancellation made before 8 working days, 25% of the seminar's fees will be charged to cover administrative costs. The Instructor commits herself to conduct this workshop as long as there is a minimum of 12 registered participants, and reserves the right to cancel the seminar should this prove otherwise, in which case, paid registrations will be reimbursed in full and all registered participants will be given priority upon rescheduling future courses.
