Upcoming Programs

Call or email to design a program for your organization (including businesses), law firm, or community!  CLE credit available for attorney programs!

Zoom or in person leadership and professional development training, including:

• Introduction to the Art of Peacemaking.  This short program (1 to 3 hours) offers an overview of what Peacemaking really is, the fundamental  tools in our kits, and an introduction to the core practice of  Peacemaking (circle process) (one to three hour program)
• Circle Process Training Practicum.   This full day program features interactive sessions will focus on core skills in the Peacemaker’s toolkit and feature practice using hypotheticals and mock circles
• Creating a Trauma-Informed Law Practice.  Relational skills are trauma informed skills--being trauma informed in our law practice is not only good for clients and colleagues, but it makes us better lawyers.
• The Art of Holding Space: Practicing the Greatest Leadership Skill of All.  The art of holding space is rarely acknowledged, but it underpins our best skills and is the secret sauce of great leaders.  And it does not happen by accident--learn strategies and tools you can both develop over time and put into practice immediately.

Professional Development for Mediators (PROGRAM FULL)

6 Zoom Sessions (12 hours total)

Limited to 6 participants

Tuesdays 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. via Zoom (biweekly 3/4/25, 3/18, 4/1, 4/15, 4/29, and 5/6)

Facilitator: Andy Kull

This program offers participants the opportunity to learn and practice Peacemaking skills and process in an intimate setting. These interactive sessions will focus on core skills in the Peacemaker’s toolkit and feature practice using hypotheticals and mock circles.  Participants will be invited to bring our existing skills and experience to the circle, and we will share the opportunity to deepen our insight into relational (as contrasted with adversarial) process and strategy. Participants will be expected to practice skills in between sessions and bring our learnings back to the group.  The course objective is to gain a basic understanding of how to facilitate a Peacemaking circle, as well as an increased appreciation of how Peacemaking can support and deepen our existing mediation practices.  

Five Biweekly Zoom Sessions (2 hours) 

Beginning December, 2024 or January, 2025

4 to 6 attorneys

Facilitated by Andy Kull

Registration Open: Spaces Available! Email kull.law@gmail.com for more information.

Cost: [This is a pilot program with no required fee.  Participants must commit to the program, provide feedback, and offer a meaningful exchange meaningful of their choosing.  Going forward, participant attorneys will pay their own hourly rate for sessions, with discounts for newer attorneys.]

There is a reason why we struggle with satisfaction as lawyers--it comes from the hidden but pervasive dissonance that arises as adversarial thinking and process inevitably gain a disproportionate hold over our work and our lives.  This small group program can bring  enjoyment and satisfaction back to our venerable practice.  We will disentangle ourselves from adversarial tools like "thinking like a lawyer" and deposit them in our toolbox where they belong.  We will learn and practice relational strategies that not only work, but also resonate with our fundamental nature as people.   And we will create an open space to  remember why we entered the law to begin with and express the personal agency to align our practice with our original intention.

This facilitated program will be participatory and transformative, solidifying our new skills and empowering each other through unpacking our experience between sessions.  We will become better lawyers (even the litigators!).  Whether we are in our career groove and looking to level up, struggling with continuing in the law, or anywhere in between, participating will deepen and align our connection with outrselves, our work, and the balance of our lives.   

Rave reviews for this Zoom program with over 40 participants!  

Rated 5/5 for overall quality of the program and 5/5 would highly recommend to a friend or colleague by 100% of survey respondents

Maine Association of Mediators Conflict Resolution Day.  Open to all!   Registration Link Here:   Circle Process and the Peacemaker's Toolkit, presented by Andrew Kull, Esq.  

The  practice of coming together to resolve our problems in a structured,  relational process held by skilled Peacemakers is profoundly simple and  highly effective.  Judicial peacemaking programs in Native American  tribal courts across North America have enjoyed great success for  decades.  Now a new generation of mediators, lawyers, judges and leaders  are finding Peacemaking tremendously beneficial beyond cultural  settings, in mainstream practice–resolving tough conflict at the root,  inspiring how we work together, and increasing our own job satisfaction.

This  session is an overview of what Peacemaking really is, the fundamental  tools in our kits, and an introduction to the core practice of  Peacemaking (circle process).  Mediators are Peacemakers already, yet we  are often frustrated by the pervasive effects of adversarial process  and thinking. Peacemaking offers a refreshing path forward.  The session  will conclude with an interactive, mini Peacemaking Circle.