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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 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

Basic Training Schedule

Additional Information
Mediation is an essential approach to solving conflicts in our communities and our society. Mediators help people in conflict express their needs and discuss their concerns in a way that the legal system is not designed to allow. , Through the mediation process, people in conflict gain control over the outcome of a dispute, preserve relationships, and learn that conflict doesn’t have to be adversarial, but can be seen as a healthy and productive way to work through differences.
Mediators assist people in disputes in a variety of settings: neighbors, landlords and tenants, families, for profit and not for profit businesses, governments, and communities. Mediators help prevent, manage, and respond to conflicts that arise between two or more people, and help themselves, their families, friends, and communities learn how to work together to resolve disputes. Mediators help improve the ability of individuals, groups, and communities, to experience healthy conflict, and to communicate toward a better tomorrow than we have today.
Mediation is something that is learned by doing. A person can learn everything there is to know about music and the piano, but it takes practices (and a lot of repetition) to play Mozart. Mediation is no different, and involves self-study, learning, as well as guided practice with constructive feedback.
We’ve designed this virtual training to be flexible for scheduling, thorough and engaging, and to comply with local and national mediation standards.* The format for this virtual training includes three key parts: large group training, small group learning; and self-guided learning and skill-building.
Large group (synchronous) learning and skill-building (24 hours):
- Everyone participating in the training will meet on 3 Saturdays for 8 hours (Feb 5th, Feb 19th, and March 5th) to learn from trainers through a combination of group exercises, lecture, practice.
Small group (synchronous) learning and skill-building (6 hours):
- Participants will meet outside of the large group training with coaches and mediators to practice mediation skills, scenarios, and role-play real-life situations taken from CDR’s 40 years of experience with conflict. These small-group meetings will be scheduled based participant and coach schedules to allow flexibility and accessibility for trainees.
Self-guided learning (asynchronous)(10 hours):
- In-between weeks of synchronous group learning and skill-building, participants will be provided with materials to read, and an online self-guided learning software to provide learning that is visual, auditory, logical, and which will include videos, reading resources, written practice, and knowledge quizes.

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.