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Discover how informed consent is pivotal in establishing a successful family mediation practice. This webinar delves into the ethical foundations and practical applications of informed consent, illustrating its role in fostering trust and transparency between mediators and clients. Learn effective strategies to implement informed consent in your practice, ensuring that clients are fully aware and agreeable to the mediation process, ultimately leading to more effective and satisfactory resolutions.

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About Forrest (Woody) Mosten

Forrest (Woody) Mosten has spent his entire career as a tireless peacemaker working for increased legal access and dispute resolution for the underserved and diverse members of our society.

Woody is a professional mediator helping families, businesses, and organizations resolve disputes. He has mediated conflict involving schools,community boards. churches and synagogues, and non-profit organizations.

He is the co-founder of Mosten Mediation Training Academy for online Mediation Training which offers courses throughout the world www.MostenMediationTraining.com.

Woody serves clients throughout the world exclusively through Zoom. Prior to converting to an online practice, he had offices in San Diego and Los Angeles and was named an Honorary Member of the Orange County Collaborative Practice Group. Woody and his wife, Dr. Jody Mosten, live in La Jolla.

Woody is in constant demand worldwide as a conference keynote speaker and expert witness on mediation. He served on the faculty from 2002-2022 at the UCLA School of Law (Mediation and Lawyer as Peacemaker) and he previously taught at Cal Western School of Law (Innovative Law Practice),University of San Diego School of Law (Legal Ethics), University of Southern California (Client Counseling), Pepperdine Law School (Mediation), Hamline Law School (Advanced Mediation and Unbundling), University of Nevada at Las Vegas (Collaborative Law), University of Idaho (Mediation), University of Denver (Legal Access), Mercer Law School (Trial Advocacy and Client Counseling) and other educational institutions.

In 1972, with his partners Len Jacoby and Steve Meyers, Woody opened the first private legal clinic in the United States that still is in operation 49 years later following a California Supreme Court ruling permitting an expansion of consumer information by lawyers.

Woody was Director of Clinical Education at Mercer Law School in Macon, Georgia where he traveled the Southern US recruiting African American law students as Faculty Sponsor for the Black Law Students Association.

Early in his career, Woody was a lawyer for the Oglala Sioux Nation following the Wounded Knee Occupation. He also served as a lawyer working with the United Farm workers and has trained Asian-America mediators to better serve their community and as ACLU Counsel in cases involving civil Rights.

Woody has served as consultant and trainer for the Hopi Dispute Resolution Council and has conducted Basic and Advanced Mediation trainings on the Hopi Tribal Grounds. In addition, he was named to neutral and impartial mediator for major political and public policy tribal disputes.

Woody served as Director of Consumer Protection as the Assistant Regional Director of the Federal Trade Commission. In this position, he led an investigation against real estate brokers who harassed consumer oriented brokers who tried to help consumers. This experience led 13 years later toWoody inventing Limited Scope Legal Services for which he is recognized as the “Father of Unbundled Legal Services” Unbundled legal services -Wikipedia.

Woody is a founding member of the Southern California Mediation Association and was named by SCMA as Peacemaker of the Year and has twice served as keynote speaker at the SCMA Annual Conference and will keynote the SCMA Family Mediation Institute with Judge Elizabeth Potter Scully who is also Woody’s co-author on 3 ABA books with a fourth inprogress. Woody is the recipient of the 2017 SCMA President’s Award. In 2020, SCMA presented Woody with its Inaugural Forrest S. Mosten Star Award for Innovation and Achievement in Mediation.

In 2024, the Pennsylvania State Bar has established the Stu Webb/Forrest Mosten Peacemaker Award. Woody keynoted and was principal trainer at the Pennsylvania State Bar Peacemaker Conference in Philadelphia in 2018 Woody has chaired many committees and projects in Peace Education. In 2008, the Association of Conflict Resolution appointed Woody to Chair its Task Force to establish a National Peacemaker Museum. He has served as a conflict resolution consultant and facilitator for the Burnham Center for Community Advancement in San Diego.

Woody is a Charter Member of Mediators Beyond Borders and was spotlighted in March 2024 https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/a-lifelong-pursuit-of-peace-member-spotlight-forrest-woody-mosten/

In 2019, Woody received a Life Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Professional Family Mediators. In 2020, APFM established the Forrest (Woody) Mosten Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Training Scholarship Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (apfmnet.org)Woody was awarded the Lifetime Career Award by the New York State Mediation Association and has been recipient of the ABA Lawyer as Problem Solver Award, ABA Lifetime Legal Access Award, and the Los Angeles County Bar Louis M. Brown Conflict Prevention Award.

Woody is the author of eight books and numerous articles on mediation and other dispute resolution topics. In 2022, Woody was named as honoree of Whose Who in ADR https://www.adrtimes.com/whos-who-in-adr-forrest-woody-mosten/. He has served as Editor of four special issues for the Family Court Review. In 2020,he was named Chair of the Mediate.com Task Force on Online Mediation Training, and is the co-author of the Task Force’s Final Report OnlineTaskForceReportAug6c.pdf (mediate.com).

Since 1989, Woody has served as Chair of the International Client Consultation Competition involving 25 countries including India, Poland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ukraine, Nigeria, and other countries from Western and Eastern Europe www.BrownMosten.com .

Woody can be reached at www.mostenmediation.com for mediation services