John,
I am one of four lawyers who teach a collaborative course at the
University of Maryland Law School. We use a lot of guest lecturers in our
class. I am also a trainer for Collaborative Practice Training Institute.
Who is your target audience? Here is Maryland several of our community
colleges have active Continuing Legal Education programs for lawyers. If
lawyers are your audience, then your course could be a basic training.
Teaching law students is very different from teaching practicing professionals.
Our class meets IACP guidelines for a basic training, but how we go about the
class and what we emphasize is different. The good news is the students have
no experience so they don't have bad habits. The bad news is they have no
experience so they have no base to build on. We do a lot of basic skills
training in active listening, reframing, etc., that we do not do in
professional trainings. For one thing, we have a lot more time in the law
school class.
Teaching a course to undergraduates would be yet different because
there isn't a place for them at the collaborative table at the end of the
class. They have none of the underlying professional skills. If you oriented
the class toward interest-based negotiation and mediation skills, that would be
helpful to the students in all kinds of things. I don't see how the formal
structure of collaborative practice would be of much practical use to the
students.
Bruce E. Avery
Collaborative Practitioner, Mediator, Attorney and Counselor at Law
Avery & Upton
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Rockville, Maryland 20850-2421
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