The FMCS Institute is pleased to welcome learners back with face-to-face sessions for some of our most in-demand courses! Becoming a Labor Arbitrator, Mediation Skills, and Negotiation Skills, will be offered in 2023 in partnership with the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law and the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. Our mission is to keep you at the forefront of conflict management and prevention with innovative topics and comprehensive course offerings that prepare you for real-world challenges and organizational change. We will continue to offer a variety of other training modalities including in-person, virtual instructor-led, and blended courses.  Take advantage of our early-bird discounts by registering on or before December 9, 2022. Visit our website to get more info on regsitration, requirements, and Continuing Legal Education credits.  Becoming a Labor Arbitrator – Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas January 9 – 13, 2023UNLV- Boyd School of LawCost: $2,7008:30am – 4:30pm   This course is geared toward labor-management practitioners with substantial experience in labor relations (pursuant to collective bargaining) who wish to become labor arbitrators. The course can also enhance the practice and skills of current arbitrators. Instructors: Arbitrators Katherine VanDagens and Brian Clauss Negotiation Skills January 9 – 13, 2023UNLV- Boyd School of LawCost: $1,600 ($1,500.00 early bird by 12/9/22)8:30am – 4:30pm    Develop the negotiation style that’s right for you. This interactive workshop focuses on techniques for 21st century contract negotiations. The workshop covers traditional and interest-based negotiations. The workshop will teach participants how to negotiate collective bargaining agreements. Instructors: FMCS Mediators TBDGroup rates available.Mediation Skills January 9 – 13, 2023UNLV- Boyd School of LawCost: $1,600 ($1,500.00 early bird by 12/9/22)8:30am – 4:30pm    Dealing effectively with conflict in the workplace has become a critical function in public and private organizations. Employers and employees are increasingly turning towards mediation to avoid costly and time-consuming litigation. Mediation has successfully applied to many types of workplace disputes, including grievances, EEO complaints, superior/subordinate problems, and peer conflicts. Instructors: FMCS Mediators Kevin Hawkins and Xavier MerizaldeGroup rates available.  Apologies That Heal –Live Webinar February 2, 2023Cost: $175 1:00pm – 4:30pm Eastern  Everyone makes mistakes. That’s why a good apology is one of the most important tools in workplace communication. Apologizing is an underrated relationship skill that can bring real healing, peace, and stress relief in the face of conflict. In this online seminar, through discussion, video clips, famous examples from history, and practice, you will learn the six elements that make for an effective apology and come away with tools that will help you heal relationships, build trust, and create a safer and more productive workplace culture. Instructors: FMCS Mediators Krystil Smith & Valerie Harragin The FMCS Institute for Conflict Management Education and its staff are deeply committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and ensuring equitable access to all courseofferings and opportunities.

Conference Hotel: Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate

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• $149+ taxes per night; the resort fee is waived.
• Student*: $109+ taxes per night (there is an extremely limited number of student rooms)
• Government*: Prevailing rate (there is a limited number of government rooms)

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Uber: Approximately $40-$50

Taxi: $82 from MCO to Omni; $100 from Omni to MCO

Transportation to Walt Disney World® Theme Parks

Complimentary scheduled transportation is provided to EPCOT and Disney’s Magic Kingdom® (the Walt Disney World® transportation center that accesses all Disney attractions). We currently offer 6 departures and 4 to 5 return trips, daily. Please see the concierge for the scheduled times and to reserve your transportation. We suggest 24-hour* advance reservations to guarantee specific departures from the resort.

July 2021Greetings from Terry & Ann!  EVER BEEN “SCARED TO DEATH”? TELL US YOUR STORY!  So our memoir is out. The reviews are good. We’ve made a few sales. But best of all, it has sparked great conversations with readers. A frequent comment is on my heart-stopping 4-wheeling adventure over Black Bear Pass into Telluride (Chapter 8): “You’d never catch me on a trail like that!” Or, folks simply refer to the photo of that vehicle clinging to the cliff edge and shake their heads, “Not on your life.” I hear you: I’ll never do that again! But we all did things in our youth that tested our mettle. We were curious—and sometimes downright foolhardy. How about you? What have you done that scared the dickens out of you? Let us know: we’d love to compare notes. Send us an email, and share your story!—Terry Meanwhile, we are bursting with other news! First off, ta-da…

OUR MEMOIR IS NOW AVAILABLE IN THREE FORMATS Yep—the hardbound and ebook editions of A Rendezvous to Remember came out on February 9, and the paperback came out last month. They’re all available through Amazon and other booksellers. A Rendezvous to Remember is our true love story that readers have told us they’ll never forget. You can get it easily at: bit.ly/rtr-paperback.

“RANDOM ENCOUNTERS”? WHAT’S THAT? “Random Encounters” is the focus for this edition of our newsletter. Why? We keep getting requests to share some of our favorite stories from a lifetime of adventures. Our answer: Yes, yes—and we have a good one to start off. Read on! Meet our friend Chief Willie, and join him for a war story from the Solomon Islands. . .  But first, here’s a quick update on our website, www.TerryAnnMarshall.com: We’ve given it a facelift and added new pages. Take a look: The following all show up under “Our Memoir” on the navigation bar.Critiques from the Cognoscientti—professional reviews;Kudos and Brickbats—reviews by everyday readers;Glimpses—quotable quotes from our memoir; andThe Rendezvous Log—where we invite you to join our Virtual Caper through the Summer of ’64 by sharing what we were doing and thinking exactly 57 years ago.This is a continuing series that will go on through the end of our memoir. For example, here are excerpts that show what we were up to on June 4, 1964—which we posted in The Rendezvous Log on June 4, 2021:  On the Road . . . and Left BehindThursday, June 4, 1964, Boulder, Colorado: After Annie drove away—headed for a summer with that lieutenant of hers in Germany—I slumped on the steps of Hallett Hall, her dorm. What if he picked up where I’d left off, leaving me to choke in his exhaust?—Terry Thursday, June 4, 1964, en route to Landshut, Germany: I was caught between an amazing young officer enticing me to join him in Germany as a prelude to a life together, and my closest friend ever, tugging me toward challenging new, but unknown horizons. I felt like a lion tamer in the ring with two hungry lions, warily circling.—Ann —Excerpts from Chapters 1 and 2, A Rendezvous to Remember. Get regular updates on The Rendezvous Log.  CRITIQUES FROM THE COGNOSCENTI In case you were wondering, this section on our website carries comments on our memoir by professional reviewers and writers of some renown. Examples: “A Rendezvous to Remember is an extended road trip, a rollicking adventure and, above all, a love story you’ll never forget.”—Hope Edelman, #1 ‘New York Times’ bestselling author of ‘Motherless Daughters’ “The story transcends personal autobiography alone, charting the course of not just two disparate lives, but a nation.”—Midwest Book Review For more professional critiques, visit our Cognoscenti page; and for reviews by every day readers, check out the Kudos and Brickbats page on our site. In sum, Our Goal for this newsletter is to share stories and have fun while we keep readers posted on our latest writing. Our Content will focus on past and future adventures; our book news; the people we meet; and other items of interest. Our Promise: We’ll never, ever sell your contact info to anyone!—Ann  NOW, GATHER ROUND, FOLKS, AND LET’S “STORI” Fly with us—in your mind—to a place far away, the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific . . . and a time long ago—40-plus years ago, when we, Terry, Ann, and daughter Leslie, lived in the Solomons.   Come with us to an island nation that had no television, no computers, no cell phones, no wi-fi. Oh, and no coffee shops, no movie theaters, and no malls. Most people lived in villages of 99 or fewer people. Electricity? Most people outside the capital city didn’t have it.   So what do folks do when the sun goes down and the villages grow dark? They tell stories, or as they say in Solomons Pidgin, they “stori.”   Come meet a memorable story-teller: Willie Lianga, chief of Ughele village. The selection below is from Terry’s essay, “By Canoe into my Father’s War,” published in the literary magazine Ecotone. Terry and Willie were returning from Lumburia Island, where our future President John Kennedy was marooned during World War 2, after a Japanese warship overran his PT-109. We catch up with Terry and Chief Willie on a two-hour canoe ride through rough seas to Willie’s home village of Ughele in the western Solomons…—Ann Willie engages the enemy—in living color …En route home, Willie edges into thick mangroves hiding a bank of pitted limestone. He points, “See the markings on the rock. In the war, Japanese hid here. We killed them.”   World War 2 sites dot the Rendova coast. Willie shouts a history of each as we pass. Near Ughele, he cuts the engine and points out a cave.   “The Japanese hid here also, inside. I went first. I’m chief,” he says, drifting into another Pidgin story, a time-honed recital performed by lapping one theme over another, rephrasing each coda in a new key, glissading forward, doubling back until a clear aria emerges somehow from a vague medley. Here are the translated highlights, a tenth of the original:   Barefoot and in loin-cloth, Willie creeps forward, Marine Raider knife in hand. He bends no leaf, makes no sound. A sentry steps out. Willie executes him. He motions his men forward. Like shadows they skulk from the jungle. Two carry captured Arisaka 7.7mm rifles; the others, spears and clubs. They charge the two dozen Japanese holed up here. Willie’s men take no prisoners, and gain an arsenal of modern weapons. Willie recounts this 1943 event as if he were rehashing this morning’s sermon in Lokuru.   Wait a sec. Chief Willie is 52, only two years my elder. He was a toddler during the war. His tales memorialize his people’s history, not his personal experiences.   By evening, Chief Willie and I are back in Willie’s village, sharing dinner with Willie’s family.   Willie’s son-in-law Rauli heaps his plate with fish and taro. “In America, do Black men teach school?” he asks. He’s a primary teacher, home for Christmas break with his wife, Chief’s eldest daughter.   “Of course,” I say, and for an hour on the other side of the world, time stands still, and we talk race, politics and history.    Village men glide into vacant spaces on the bench lining the veranda, blend instantly into the ongoing stories. One regales them with a tale of a youthful pig-stealing sortie, or was it a raid on a Japanese rice cache? Time seems suspended in these stories, irrelevant.   Somehow, they drift back into 1943. Willie leads as they rescue a downed American pilot. They paddle all night through enemy-infested seas… The story goes on. Click here for Terry’s full essay and more tales.

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Join us on Instagram Live (@newyorkpeace) on May 17th at 7pmEST for an interview with New York Peace Institute’s Restorative Justice (RJ) Coordinator, Kailani Capote! The incomparable Brandon Frame, @theblackmancan, will be interviewing Kailani about her work with New York Peace Institute and Restorative Practices. Restorative practices have an important role to play in creating a strong sense of community, as well as responding to harm. NYPI’s RJ team has created safe spaces for different communities who have experienced harm to process and support one another through a journey towards healing. Kailani Capote has extensive experience implementing restorative practices in New York City schools and communities. She has been leading New York Peace Institute’s work with young people for over four years, is a certified Circle Keeping Trainer, and a student of RP at IIRP graduate school. Brandon Frame is the founder of TheBlackManCan, a nonprofit highlighting positive images of black men and boys. He is also the Director of Social Emotional Learning at the Urban Assembly, where Kailani launched one of NYPI’s first restorative justice programs. Brandon is a committed advocate and mentor, focused on inspiring and uplifting youth of color through his work.   Register here and tune in to Instagram Live (@newyorkpeace) on May 17th at 7pm to learn more about this timely work and this amazing duo! ACR News: March 2, 2021 WebinarsUPCOMING: Facilitating Conversations on Cultural SensitivityHost: ACR Diversity NetworkWhen: Wednesday, April 28th from 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm ET | 11:30am – 1pm CT Registration Required!Members: Click here to register. You must be logged in to access the page.Not a member? Purchase access to the registration for $25 or join ACR! Description: Facilitating conversations about race and culture often involves tension, as both the facilitators and participants bring emotional experiences and their deeply held values and beliefs to the discussion. Join us for a thoughtful presentation regarding this important topic and how the strategies discussed can be used in personal, educational, and professional settings. Speaker Bio:  Brandi R. Muñoz is a Certified Human Resources Professional (PHR, SHRM-SP), Certified Master of Career Services (CMCS), Certified Professional Résumé Writer (CPRW), and Nationally Certified Online Profile Expert (NCOPE) with over ten years of experience as a strategic Human Resources Leader in Recruiting, Corporate HR Management, Training & Development, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, and Employee Relations. She is a graduate of Southern Methodist University’s Master of Arts program in Conflict Resolution with a concentration in employment mediation and was a student contributor for, Boulle, Laurence, et al. Mediation: Skills and Techniques. 1st ed., Newark, NJ, LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2008. Brandi has extensive experience developing and facilitating training topics in conflict resolution, leadership development, and diversity, equity, and inclusion that promote more inclusive and safe work environments. She also publishes online blogs and articles related to career development and conflict resolution. Currently, Brandi is working toward attaining a doctorate (EdD) in Educational Leadership from Abilene Christian University, focusing on conflict resolution and organizational development. Brandi also serves on the National Résumé Writer’s Association (NRWA) board as the Director of Member Support for College Career Centers, and as an advisor for the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Membership, and Public Image Committees.  She is also the Diversity Officer for the Education, Research, and Training section of the Association for Conflict Resolution.NEW MEMBER BENEFIT: ARCHIVED WEBINARSACR is working on embedding past recorded webinars on the website. To access, login and then under Membership, click on Archived Webinars. Webinars are grouped by Section and then by year. There are only a few available and more will be added weekly. Model StandardsACR is the resource for setting model standards in the field of ADR.Click for the complete list of Model Standards. Need advice or support regarding ethical issues? Contact ACR’s Ethics CommitteeClick to learn more about the Ethics and Grievance Committee.Association for Conflict Resolution P.O. Box 5, Eagle NE 68347-0005 admin@acrnet.orgacrnet.orgIf you would like to unsubscribe: http://acrnet.org/members/EmailOptPreferences.aspx?id=54708932&e=btstrahl@hotmail.com&h=2e5c06ab192c73995fa5bc2c7ad0e50a19c63aa8