I recently took Dan’s Divorce and Family Mediation Training-The Transformative Approach. I found it to be incredibly valuable and informative. He’s a great instructor and conversationalist who is passionate about this client focused approach to conflict. It was a very engaging and fun training to participate in! The skills learned in this course will help anyone to better understand how to be supportive while also empowering people during some of their weakest moments. Looking forward to future trainings with Dan!

I gained enormous value as licensed mental health professional from taking Dan Simon’s Transformative Mediation training. I was immediately able to apply principles of transformative mediation to my work with families and groups due to the client-centered and relational value of the modality itself. Dan is a highly skilled facilitator, mediator, and teacher; and maintains incredible integrity, value and belief in the work he does. Dan hosted the training to be digestible, relatable, and engaging to the variety of professionals in the room due the wide variety of teaching styles he used. I’d highly recommend this training to anyone who, at minimum, is interested in deepening their awareness of conflict resolution in any professional context.

Dan Simon conducts high quality, comprehensive, fun, and thought-provoking mediation trainings. I have been mediating since 2003 and Dans training is the best professional training I have ever experienced. I highly recommend Dans training not only for mediators, but for professionals who can benefit from increasing their conflict resolution skills.

Dan is a highly-intuitive, skilled, and passionate mediator who, in my experience, consistently puts people first. His client-centric approach to mediation is supportive and encouraging. And the training he provides for other mediators is excellent! I would recommend, strongly and without reservation, working with Dan. Whether youre seeking the services of a mediator, or thinking of becoming one yourself, you wont be disappointed!

Dan is an engaging teacher, he keeps the class moving, and everyone gets ample time to practice what they are learning, I’m very impressed with the quality of Dan’s Training. Transformative mediation can work in any dispute! So happy I took the class!

Ive never been to a better training mediation seminar. Dans approach helps individuals relate to one another in a way that helps them get past their disputes. As an divorce attorney with 25 years experience, I believe that Dans approach is best in helping parents listen understand and respond to one another.

Dan Simons is not just another mediator/educator. He is among the forerunners in the Transformative approach to mediation. I was fortunate to attend one of Dans recent 3-day workshops. The program was engaging, informative, and practical in adding to my mediation skills. Thank you Dan, for a job well done. I heartily recommend Dans workshop as a source for extraordinary mediation training.

Dan Simon is a gifted mediator and educator. He has been on the forefront of shaping the Transformative approach for decades. I have known him for one of those decades and consider him a mentor. He brilliantly engages and instills confidence allowing individuals to transform their conflict whether emotional, transactional or financial ... or all three. I highly recommend Dan Simon to anyone wishing to mediate or to learn Transformative Mediation.

I received a lot of value from Dans transformative mediation class. I not only learned a great new negotiation legal skill, but I also understand conflict in my clients divorce and custody cases and conflict in my personal life better. Ive referred 3 people to him for training, and the class has been over for less than 2 weeks.In addition, Dan is an awesome transformative mediator. 2 or 3 years go, I sat in on 1 of his mediations because his clients asked me to write up their divorce agreements into divorce documents. Both parties spoke freely. They reached agreements on all case issues.

Very highly recommended! Dan is incredibly wise, smart, and skillful. If you really want to resolve your conflict, (even if you think theres NO WAY possible to do so) he is your guy. Dan can also help get the other side onboard with a transformative mediation if they are hesitant.

I attended Dan Simon’s mediation training workshop in L.A. in August 2018. This three-day program had a deeper impact on my work as an attorney and organizational development consultant than any other training or workshop I’ve attended. Dan was knowledgeable, engaging, approachable, humble, and had a great sense of humor. He is clearly committed to helping others transform their communications in times of conflict, and he demonstrated his own skills as an experienced mediator throughout the three-day workshop. In the weeks since the workshop, I’ve had an opportunity to use the Transformative Model in real-world settings, seeing firsthand how this approach helps empower others in expressing their own thoughts, ideas, and feelings while also becoming more responsive to others. I’ve also seen the other side: The day after Dan’s workshop concluded, I attended a mediation in Phoenix with a mediator who was not trained in the Transformative Model. As the mediator attempted to ‘guide’ the parties toward a resolution, and as the parties grew increasingly (and visibly) frustrated and disempowered, I kept thinking how different this might have turned out had Dan been mediating. For mediators and others interested in the.Transformative Model, I highly recommend Dan’s training. For those in need of a mediator, just call Dan!

I took Dans three-day Mediation Training: The Transformative Approach in August 2018. Ive known, liked, and respected Dan ever since we met through LinkedIn years ago. However I never fully understood how transformative mediation worked. I thought that the mediators role was different from what I now understand. Dan is absolutely correct when he says, Its not so obvious how powerful transformative mediation can be until youve had direct experience with it or a few days of training in it. Transformative mediators help people in conflict to change their conflict interaction by fostering empowerment and recognition and supporting the parties in their own perspective-taking and decision-making efforts. Two main tools transformative mediators use are reflecting and summarizing. Those tools allow transformative mediators help people in conflict become more self-aware and better hear and understand those with whom they are in conflict. As simple as this may sound, let me assure you that it is far from easy. Now that I fully understand the ultimate goal of transformative mediation and what transformative mediators do and dont do in order to effectuate that goal, I finally get it. I am so incredibly thankful to Dan for enlightening me.