ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST: Trauma Informed Mediation: Screening for Meaningful Participation Using CALM-SPJ

ACR-GNY & CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College present:

Trauma Informed Mediation:
Screening for Meaningful Participation Using CALM-SPJ

This presentation will introduce the T.I.M (Trauma Informed Mediation) ecosystem and explore how the CALM Structured Professional Judgment (CALM-SPJ) framework assists mediators in assessing participation capacity and adapting the mediation process to promote psychological safety, process equity, decision clarity, and durable agreements. It will be an engaging discussion about the practical application of trauma-informed mediation and how structured observational frameworks can strengthen decision-making within mediation. The session moves beyond theory and always includes operational resources and tools to apply in real life. Tired of taking workshops that taught approaches but then left her with the question "Now what?", Trisha Wright's framework aims to fill that gap!

TRISHA WRIGHT

Trisha Wright, MBA, MA (Forensic Psychology), is an Accredited Family Mediator (AccFM), On-Site Family Mediator with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Certified Clinical Traumatologist, and a member of the clinical panel of Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer (OCL). She is the founder of Clearpoint Mediation and the Insight Learning Institute, where she develops trauma-informed education for professionals across the legal, healthcare, and community sectors, including training accredited for CPD by the Law Society of Ontario. She also leads the Association of Trauma-Informed Professionals, a community of practice serving the family law sector.

Drawing on a forensic psychology lens , Trisha is the developer of TIM™, the Trauma-Informed Mediation Framework — an integrated professional practice system supporting practitioners from intake to durable agreement. Within that ecosystem, she created CALM-SPJ™, a structured professional judgment screening framework assessing Capacity, Adversity, Load, and Mediation Safety to guide decisions about participation capacity and process suitability. Her practice focuses on high-conflict family matters, including cases involving trauma, mental health, neurodivergence, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her recent article, "Calibrated Neutrality: Advancing Process Fairness in Mediation," was published in Attorney at Law Magazine.

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