What Do You Bring to the Table? How Values and Identity Impact Our Work as Dispute Resolution Professionals with Presenter: Nancy Cameron

This workshop is highly interactive and self-reflective. We will explore how specific universal values underpin our sense of self. Since clashes in underlying values can increase our conflict, both as team members and as professionals working with clients, we will examine how to moderate value-based conflicts. Using a tool to identify our default self-monitoring style, we

will identify where we fall on the self-monitoring continuum, and how to use this information to help us constructively work with our colleagues. Since identity lies at the base of most conflicts, this workshop will give participants an opportunity to examine components of their own core identity, and how, in conflict, personal identity feels threatened, unacknowledged, or

under attack. We will use this information to help us increase our effectiveness as Dispute Resolution Practitioners, and to help build healthy Collaborative Practice groups and teams.

Nancy Cameron is a lawyer, writer, and educator. She was a founding board member and the first president of the BC Collaborative Roster Society and of the Collaborative Divorce Association of Vancouver (first co-chair). She was the President of the International Academy of Collaborative Practitioners in 2009. She has led and designed training in the collaborative process and dispute resolution, as well as being a speaker and trainer in the area of collaborative law to groups across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. She has been an adjunct professor (full-term Collaborative Practice courses) at both the University of British Columbia

Law School as well as Hong Kong University Department of Law. She has written numerous articles on Collaborative Practice, as well as a book: Collaborative Practice: Deepening the Dialogue, and is the editor of the IACP Collaborative Review. She is passionate about exploring change that works for families within the family justice system, and is an Executive Member of the BC Family Justice Innovation Lab. She received her Queens Counsel Designation in 2005, and has been named to the peer-reviewed Best Lawyers in Canada (in the field of Alternate Dispute Resolution) since 2012, and named Best ADR Professional, Vancouver in 2014.