Lunch and Learn: The LMHC's Superpower You Didn't Learn in School: Mediation
1.5 hour (1.5 Continuing Education Credits)
$25 for Members
$50 for Non-Members
Description (virtual workshop on zoom):
Mental health clinicians often find themselves helping people navigate conflict — in relationships, families, workplaces, schools, and systems. This interactive workshop introduces the basics of mediation and dispute resolution and explores how mediation skills can help people navigate conflict more effectively. Through real-life examples and experiential activities, participants will explore conflict styles, communication patterns, and negotiation concepts.
This workshop will combine lecture, experiential activities, group discussion, and practical case examples. Participants will engage in interactive exercises designed to help them experience different approaches to conflict and communication firsthand.
Didactic portions of the workshop will introduce foundational mediation and dispute resolution concepts, including conflict styles, core principles of mediation, communication patterns, and interest-based negotiation. Real-world family, workplace, and interpersonal conflict examples will be used to help participants connect concepts to clinical practice and everyday interactions.
Our Presenter: Ben Stitch, LICSW
About our presenter:
Ben is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker working a full-time divorce and family mediation practice since 2014. Additionally, Ben serves on the Board of Directors of the MA Council on Family Mediation and is a Certified Trainer of Collaborative Problem Solving: MGH’s Dept. of Psychiatry’s Think:Kids program. Ben has presented for MaMHCA at our annual conference on the topic of working with clients through divorce.
Friday, November 13th, 2026 from 11:30am-1pm
**Allow for 15 minutes after the presentation to submit eval for CEs**
Registration is required.
1.5 CE
Members: $25 - All levels of membership
Non-members: $50
Please note: Registration closes 3 business days before the event even if there are open spaces.
