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244.84 sec. 001 - Mindful Conflict Resolution (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Darshan Brach (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 1
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
M 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Location: Law 141
From January 13, 2025
To March 10, 2025
Course End: March 10, 2025
Class Number: 32933
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 24
Waitlisted: 6
Enroll Limit: 24
As of: 11/22 11:55 AM
A judge's decision, a jury's verdict, a negotiated settlement - case resolved? Not so fast. Traditional legal approaches to dispute resolution often fail to provide durable and satisfying outcomes because they ignore the deeper psychological and interpersonal issues that underlie all conflict. Addressing these compelling forces requires emotional intelligence and a more integrative and mindful approach. Drawing from the realms of psychology, non-violent communication, mindfulness and negotiation theory, this hands-on course offers critical and fundamental skills in navigating conflictual terrain as a lawyer, neutral or simply as a human.
The course readings, class exercises and discussions will focus on defining, integrating and refining both right and left-brain techniques for working with and through conflict. Students will have the opportunity to apply these strategies to conflictual domains in their own lives, and can explore how to bring them into the legal arena to resolve disputes in a more comprehensive, meaningful and sustainable way. Students will be asked to maintain a daily mindfulness practice of about 10 - 15 minutes for the duration of the course.
Darshan Brach is a lawyer, mediator, psychotherapist and mindfulness practitioner. In addition to her private mediation and psychotherapy practices, Darshan also teaches Mediation at UC Berkeley Law.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
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Exam Notes: (P) Final paper
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Simulation Courses
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
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