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Mediation Services
Resolving disputes is CDR’s specialty. We’ve mediated thousands of cases over the last 30 years, utilizing well-trained and experienced mediators and case developers to provide high quality services throughout the mediation process.
We offer mediation services in a variety of areas within our Community, Family, and Restorative Justice Programs.
Family Mediation
Separation/Divorce
Couples
Co-parenting
Parent/Teen
Elder Care & Probate
Community Mediation
Neighbor to Neighbor
Landlord/Tenant
Manufactured Communities
Nonprofit/For-profit
Government/Public
Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice in Schools
Community Restorative Justice
Circuit Court Diversion
Municipal Court Diversion
Post-Release Victim-Offender
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Facilitation Services
CDR has well-trained and experienced facilitators who can work with groups of all sizes and types.
Our facilitation services are tailored to the needs of a particular group, and we can be flexible with meeting lengths, times, as well as one-time vs. ongoing facilitation needs.
If you don’t see what you’re looking for here, please reach out to CDR to talk with our staff who can help match our services with your needs.
Family Mediation
Separation/Divorce
Couples
Co-parenting
Parent/Teen
Elder Care & Probate
Community Mediation
Neighbor to Neighbor
Landlord/Tenant
Manufactured Communities
Nonprofit/For-profit
Government/Public
Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice in Schools
Community Restorative Justice
Circuit Court Diversion
Municipal Court Diversion
Post-Release Victim-Offender
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- Restorative Justice
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Restorative Justice Services
CDR has decades of experience with youth and adult restorative justice.
Restorative justice guides people who commit harms to take a full and active form of accountability. At the same time, it takes seriously the needs of victims and their right to have a strong voice in how the harm is repaired. Schools, courts, and workplaces are increasingly training their teams in these values and tools.
Schools
CDR supports the growing movement in education for more holistic, equitable, relationship-based discipline structures. We assist educators and administrators in cultivating meaningful, growth-oriented accountability in their schools through professional development trainings, sustained coaching of specific school personnel, systems consultation, and facilitation of restorative discipline dialogues.
Criminal Justice
In partnership with the Office of the Lane County District Attorney, CDR runs a Restorative Justice Diversion Program. Defendants who plead into this program go through a series of dialogues to collaboratively explore what full accountability means for their situation, where the impacts have been, and what can be done towards making things right. This program has an excellent track record of diverting individuals away from sentencing and toward meaningful community integration.
Community
Residents of Lane County may initiate a case with CDR for a Restorative process to address a specific harm. Our trained, experienced facilitators conduct individual meetings with the person harmed and the person or people who caused the harm. We uncover impacts and needs, and determine whether to convene a dialogue between the parties. These cases have some resemblance to mediations, but the goals are authentic rebalancing of relationships, humanizing the “other,” and seeking to address real impacts.
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- Training & Education
- Basic Mediation Training
- Foundations of Restorative Practices in Education
- Restorative Justice Facilitation Training
- Trauma Informed RP & Healing
- Parenting and Communication
- Beyond Division
- Divorce 101
- Relational and Restorative Parenting
- Responding to Incidents of Sexual Harm on College Campuses
- Micro-Communication Skills
- Justice with Healing
- Tools for Harmony within Diversity: The Friendly Style Profile
- The Friendly Clinic
- Restorative Justice
- Self-Care Webinar Series!
- Resources and Learning
Join us for our Self Care Webinar Series!

This is a challenging time for all of us. CDR’s wonderful volunteers have curated a series of webinars to help us all stay mentally and emotionally healthy during this time. We have a great lineup of webinar topics including communication in the home, how to express empathy, maintaining mindfulness, and how to deal with emotions to take care of yourself and others.
Fill out the form below if you’re interested in attending one (or all!) of these webinars!
All webinars in this series are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Please bring yourselves, your families, friends, coworkers, and community members.

Constructive Communication in the Home
with Dr. Clare Fowler
Dr. Clare Fowler received her Doctorate on designing dispute resolution systems for small businesses from Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education/Organizational Leadership and her Master’s of Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law. Dr. Fowler serves as Managing Editor at Mediate.com and as Director of Caseload Manager. She also is an adjunct professor at UO CRES. Clare mediates and trains, focusing on workplace disputes. Dr. Fowler’s dissertation was a phenomenological study of Workplace disputes. Her current book project is a guidebook for HR directors dealing with high conflict employees.
Weekly Empathy
with Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts started a public venue for empathic listening at Eugenes Saturday Market. The Empathy Tent begins its sixth season telephonically and online this year, no physical tent, alas. Now Mark listens to people, trains groups in empathy practices and helps coordinate community wide connections. His values and strategies sprout from Marshall Rosenberg’s training in compassionate, nonviolent communication. He’s volunteered for seventeen years leading Nonviolent Communication groups, and as a mediator in the court and community.


Mindfulness in Communication and Conflict
with David Gubernick
David Gubernick moved to Eugene, Oregon to study mediation in the late 90s. After taking his basic training in 1997, David became an active volunteer mediator, board and staff member with the Center for Dialogue & Resolution (formerly Community Mediation Services) over the past 20 years. During that time, David has also mediated in Family Mediation, Restorative Justice, Community Mediation, Small Claims Mediation for the Lane County Court and Foreclosure Avoidance Mediation for the State of Oregon as well as facilitated “Mindfulness in Mediation” in the Basic Mediation Trainings.
David holds a BA in Communications from Pennsylvania State University and had served in human resources management for over ten years in the non-profit sector with special interest in conflict resolution in the workplace.
Dealing with Anxiety and Depression
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Grief and Community Resources
with Jessica, Heidi, and Kristen



Jessica Swensen is a licensed occupational therapist with Behavioral Health Services at PeaceHealth. In her role Jessica works with kids, teens, and young adults to develop skills and strategies that will help them increase functioning and participation in daily life. Approaches include activity analysis, sensory processing and sensory strategies, activity and environmental modification, and exploration of meaningful activities. Jessica is originally from Utah and moved to Oregon 4 years ago after graduating with her master’s degree from the University of Utah. In her free time Jessica enjoys hiking, movie watching, and snuggling her two cats.
Heidi Grove in an LCSW and is currently a therapist and vocational/educational counselor in Young Adult Behavioral Health at PeaceHealth in Eugene. Heidi joined the Young Adult Team in August of 2019 following 15 years as a school social worker at all levels of public education and alternative schools in Illinois. Prior to receiving her Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Heidi was an intensive case manager at the Mental Health Center of Champaign County as well as a supervisor in a local AmeriCorps program housed at the same agency. A native of Illinois, Heidi and her husband moved to Eugene in July of 2019 and are grateful for all of the wide open spaces and beautiful hikes they have been able to explore.
Kristen Sweet, LPC is a licensed therapist with Alive Holistic Counseling, and the Clinical Coordinator for Young Adult Behavioral Health Services at PeaceHealth. As a therapist she takes a compassionate approach that uses positive emotions, purpose & meaning, relationships, and strengths as building blocks to support personal growth and well-being. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), hypnotherapy, EMDR, and the work of Dr. Brene Brown is used to help clients identify and challenge unhealthy core beliefs, recognize negative patterns, and support change.

Mediation
For nearly 40 years, CDR has provided high quality mediation services to the communities of Lane County. CDR helps clients through the entire mediation process, from the initial call, to the final agreement and resolution. Our goal is to ensure that the mediation process is responsive, efficient, and affordable. Learn More About Mediation Services

Facilitation
CDR's facilitation program guides groups through all kinds of issues and group dynamics toward resolution. Whether your group is new or long-standing, large or small, informal or professional, CDR can help. Learn More About Facilitation Services

Education and Training
CDR conducts trainings throughout the year in a broad range of topics. Our trainers have a collective hundreds of years of experience in all areas of conflict resolution. Our trainings are available to the public, and we also do custom training for groups of all kinds. Learn More About Trainings and Education Services
Building Peaceful Communities
For the past four decades, CDR has been building more peaceful communities in Lane County. Our services, and the training and workshops we provide, have helped tens of thousands learn how to use positive communication to transform conflict.
For the past four decades, CDR has been building more peaceful communities in Lane County. Our services, and the training and workshops we provide, have helped tens of thousands learn how to use positive communication to transform conflict.